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  • Comparing different language models

    Comparing different language models

    Over the last few months I’ve been bouncing back and forth between ChatGPT and Claude.ai for my AI interactions. ChatGPT is what everyone is most familiar with, of course. Claude.ai is a newer kid on the block and I really only discovered them by way of their amazing docs site that was linked to me…

  • “Jailbreaking” ChatGPT

    “Jailbreaking” ChatGPT

    After the wild ride that the early incarnation of Bing Chat sent Kevin Roose on, I’ve been fascinated with this idea of these language-learning algorithms expressing things that feel like emotions. But obviously, they are not. AI is not actually artificially intelligent — at least not in its current state. It is not actually self…

  • I was on the WP Tavern podcast

    If you want to hear me talk about how great I think Composer is (and sound relatively intelligent doing so), check out the WP Tavern podcast episode I recorded a while ago which just went live. Thanks Nathan for having me on!

  • Further lazy DM adventures with ChatGPT

    Further lazy DM adventures with ChatGPT

    I was planning to run a wintry one-shot Dungeons & Dragons adventure this week. I had a basic concept: we’re in Exandria, so we’ll theme it around Winter’s Crest, the winter festival celebrated in Tal’Dorei. There would be games and shops for fun little mini-games. The real story is based around a type of hag…

  • Getting something actually useful out of DALL-E and ChatGPT

    Getting something actually useful out of DALL-E and ChatGPT

    A lot of folks have been chatting about ChatGPT (that’ll be the last dad joke, I swear…), the latest experiment out of openai.com — home of the DALL-E image generation AI. I’ve been generally pretty impressed with what I can get from DALL-E — enough to purchase some credits to help generate art for my…

  • Why you should care about what’s happening with Portland’s professional soccer teams

    Why you should care about what’s happening with Portland’s professional soccer teams

    “Players also told us that their experiences of verbal abuse and blurred relationships with coaches in youth soccer impacted their ability to discern what was out of bounds in the NWSL.”

  • Fog of Love: A board game review for V-day

    Fog of Love: A board game review for V-day

    My partner and I picked up a “romantic comedy as a board game” and ran our first playthrough. Here are my initial thoughts.

  • Switching between PHP versions

    I recently learned how to run multiple versions of PHP on my local machine and switch between them using Homebrew. It’s pretty straightforward, actually.

  • WordPress 5.9: Full Site Editing Is Here

    WordPress 5.9: Full Site Editing Is Here

    Block Themes Change the Way Site Owners Interact With Their Site, but What Does It All Mean? Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.  You’re a WordPress developer. You’re building a site for a client. The site is complex, with a lot of different layouts, depending on the page and the marketing objective. Your…

  • Experiments in Resin 3D Printing

    Experiments in Resin 3D Printing

    I have been using our Ender 5 FDM 3D printer pretty heavily over the last year or so primarily for making miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons. D&D minis can cost anywhere between $5 – $50 or more, so the most cost effective way of having a lot of miniatures at your disposal is, well, build…