Hi, I’m Chris

I make websites and things. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with Large Language Models (colloquially known as AI) to test their capabilities and to help make my job and D&D Dungeon Mastering life easier. Feel free to click around to learn more about stuff I like to do and/or am working on.

  • Look!

    Look!

  • WordCamp Salt Lake City 2012

    I managed to become one of the organizers for WordCamp SLC 2012.  As such, here’s the obligatory announcement post.  If you have any questions about WordCamp SLC, feel free to let me know. September 22 is WordCamp SLC 2012.

  • Upgrade WordPress via SSH

    I’ve had a helluva time on this blog with updates.  I don’t know what I’m doing differently with this site than others… I have many sites hosted by HostingMatters,  all of them I’ve tweaked the wp-config.php file and only this domain is the one that has issues upgrading — for plugins it’s not a big…

  • Slow progress

    A while ago I wrote about slowing down.  What could be slower than a few days camping in the desert?  No internet, the phones died our second night there, nothing to actively distract or divert.  In my last post, I wrote that I hoped the process of slowing down my internet (and media) consumption would…

  • First ever soccer game

    First ever soccer game

  • Tooth number two

    Tooth number two

  • Programmatic poetry

    I was working on a WordPress plugin today that will allow users/developers to stop a javascript from running on a particular page.  That doesn’t sound very exciting, but it got me thinking about the WordPress adage “code is poetry”.  (Blame this on my recent initiative for going slow — I had this idea when I…

  • Why I’m removing sharing links from my blog

    @iA wrote up an excellent post on rethinking the actual value of those social media buttons. Sweep the Sleaze | Information Architects.

  • Slowing down

    I came across this the other day and it’s been forcing me to think — and rethink — how I view the internet and all those things that bleep and boop and pop up that are sent through some web service.  You can watch the whole thing, I’ll wait. (You can also read the transcript…

  • From our trip to Dinosaur National Monument

    From our trip to Dinosaur National Monument