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We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has "the best words":

This week I decided to go nuclear on my bad YouTube habit. I installed a plugin called Tab Limiter that lets me limit youtube.com to one tab at a time. Clicking links that open in new tabs will now auto-close the tab.

I've been playing around with Midjourney for work and the one thing that makes Stable Diffusion cool and useful to me is the --sref flag to summon results in a specific visual style or "style reference" (e.g. Celestial Swirlscape is --sref 2566192150 ...

In the middle of the night on the morning of July 4th, a storm parked over the Texas Hill Country and caused the Guadalupe river to rise more than 25 feet in two hours. 135 dead, including dozens of children from summer camps along the river. As a .. ...

I was thinking this morning about how once you understand that your technology choices have security, performance, and accessibility considerations you become a much more boring developer. Acknowledging those obligations can sort of strips the fun .. ...

I saw this summer's Marvel movie in the theater on Sunday. A bit of a last minute idea so we ended up going to the "legacy" movie theater across the highway. Before I continue, It's important to understand my local cinema dynamics. We have two ...

The cost of being online is getting too damn high and I'm tired of pretending it's possible to fit these tasks into a normal life. That's why I'd like to share a modest proposal for a new set of holidays to manage our digital lives:

After all our summer trips I buckled down last weekend and did some budgetting and I've realized I have to update the spreadsheet in my head. Here's how much things cost in my outdated DaveBrain 2000 operating system:

I hold a conspiracy theory the global economy died five years ago during Covid. It's been on life support through stimulus checks and flash tech hype cycles ever since trying to keep the dormant heart beating. You sense it too. There's no beating ...