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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.

  • 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

  • Making of “The Buzzer” on percussa’s blog

    @percussa did a blog post on my making of The Buzzer videos on YouTube. Making of “The Buzzer” starring AudioCubes | audiocubes by percussa.

  • Utah Natural History Museum

    Utah Natural History Museum

  • Making theme options modular

    Today I submitted version 1.1 of Museum Core to the WordPress theme repository for review. Originally this was going to just be a simple update with some bugfixes, but I had thought of a way to make it easier to build child themes that include some options settings from the parent theme (Museum Core) without… (read…

  • Took you long enough, MPAA…

    Interesting article on how the movie industry has now suddenly realized they can actually make money on YouTube (something YouTube web series’ and content creators have already figured out) and are (possibly) no longer under the assertion that it is, in fact, evil… After Years Of Trying To Kill YouTube, Movie Studios Are Embracing &…

  • Museum Core listed in WPCandy’s Theme Release Roundup

    …and in case you haven’t seen my (numerous, ecstatic) tweets, Facebook shares, etc…Museum Core was listed on a little blog called WPCandy… The Weekly WordPress Theme Release Roundup | WPCandy.