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.

  • Last Bit of Summer

    The Last Bit of Summer template for Blogger was inspired by thoughts of fall leaves, ripe watermelon, and the beautiful golden light of late summer. It’s a little bit of summer serenity to me and I hope it will be to you too. Warm colors, art paper textures and a little bit of extra colorful… (read…

  • How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Really Made

    How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Really Made

  • A slow day?

    A slow day?

  • A slow day?

    For those that haven’t noticed it yet, upstartblogger.com has taken yet another turn. Remember the old tagline of the site?  If you don’t, I’ll remind you: Successful blogging made simple. As it turns out, successful blogging just is…

  • dear Audrey

    This charming Blogger template is a little bit vintage, a little bit writer and a whole lot of personality! It uses neutral colors and inviting paper textures with an added vintage style ornament as accents to create a warm and sophisticated setting for your words of wisdom, adorable pictures or online diary.  Dear Audrey uses… (read…

  • Free October Calendar Wallpaper: Good Morning

    This month’s wallpaper comes out of a long-exposure shot I took sometime in the pre-dawn hours a couple months ago.  As I was staring at my computer screen  at more or less the same time, it seemed an appropriate start for a new wallpaper.  T…

  • How I fixed the “cannot redeclare _checkactive_widgets()” error in WordPress child themes

    So, I had a problem.  For a while I’ve noticed a whole bunch of code being tacked on to my functions.php file.  I’ve had no idea where it came from since I certainly didn’t write it, so I generally just removed it when I saw it.  Then I noticed this weird php error when I… (read…

  • whatever happened to…

    whatever happened to…

  • whatever happened to…

    Remember that 10000in24 Twitter account from a while back?  There was the big reveal on Upstart Blogger about what a sham it was that he was going to “create” a Twitter account that acquired 10,000+ followers and then he’d “giv…

  • Wherein I reveal that I’m actually a big fat liar

    Wherein I reveal that I’m actually a big fat liar

    For a long time I’ve told people “I’m not really a coder.  I hate programming.”  It’s true that when I took Assembly Language and C++ in college, I barely scraped by and mostly hated every minute.  The only part I didn’t hate, in fact, was when I finally wrote something that worked, and this was…