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I work as a web designer and internet technical support. Blog posts in this category will be about computers or my web design projects.
I work as a web designer and internet technical support. Blog posts in this category will be about computers or my web design projects.
I work as a web designer and internet technical support. Blog posts in this category will be about computers or my web design projects.
To be fair, it's just 9:30 in the morning on the second day, so it's not really a technical fail at this point. I'm calling it early because that's what I do. I predict my own failures, and then I blog about them until I feel better. Yesterday was a Wednesday, a few weeks into my new residency, where I haven't really shown the client as much progress as they would like for me. It has been quite...
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My take on why I feel OK with letting AI create for me
As my mood shifts constantly, I’ll probably be blogging a fair amount over the next few days, even if I’m not saying much.
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I hate saying I hate something, but dislike isn’t strong enough.
We’re back baby!
The money system design.
The concept of a plan.
The meta corporation has failed me today illogically. There’s a simple solution and yet the company is too big to have people support it or even an AI that is competent enough to answer questions for me so I’m locked out of all my Facebook and Instagram accounts with no way of telling people that I’m locked out
A brain to gboard unedited script here, but if luck hits it right a different version will magically start an income for something I want to give away
What compromise comes with fame
I get super excited building these tools and they are a major source of self pride because I think different.
Wordpress Plugins I created with the help of AI in VSCode.
Procrastination or whatever the ADHD calls paralysis, the outcome is the same. There is no outcome
I recap of my morning frustrations trying to write my space game tribute to Star Commander
This ai generated clip was used in my recent music video
A gallery of a few fake testimonials I created for a web design project I’m working on.
Struggles with ai programming and the English language
A blog about AI assisted programming and how it fails a guy like me, but I still try.
The things I do to avoid the things I do.
Personal observations on why I leave as much as possible unfished as a work in progress.
An update as I complete the first set of NetBound tools
I have not been blogging so much, mainly because almost every waking moment is spent at my computer desk maintaining a strong hyper focus while programming PHP and JavaScript tools. It's a strange kind of fun, mixed with frustration. A lot of what keeps me coming back is the process of learning more about how AI works. It gives me a new joy as I discover how things work, and the old joy that...
Most of my tool ideas were to fill specific needs for people like me using two or more tools and doing some in-betwen tasks. It never occured to me that the ai coding might be writing the hard programs too. It might be capable of bigger goals, like writing the big tools or forking them (modifying existing open source tools). I think a lot of people would appreciate a tool that accepts an image...
I was waiting for some code to download and decided to vent to my AI Coding budy. I use CODY by Sourcegraph, which is a personality but between myself and the other top AI tools, depending on what I choose for the task. I vented a bit because I knew that if I wasted approximentally a month filled with frustration, that meant other people were having similar experiences and I know that also meant...
A mini biography of the business ideas I’ve had over the years that actually go
I noticed a feature that is not a feature – but probably was in my AI that would let it take over the world and destroy mankind.
I am shocked at thigs I learned today about Cody. A front end tool for programming Claude that does things wrong. I even asked it for the language that I could use to fix it but it continued to be lazy and lie outright to me, ignoring very specific instructions. This approach to quick fixes has wasted literal days and days troubleshooting code fixes that could never be fixed because Claude...
When I was talking about this project to chat gpt I compared it to building a boat in your driveway although I was thinking of the NCIS story where he built a boat in his basement over the course of many years. The point had nothing to do with boats but just that having a long term project with a goal and hope wasn't a bad idea and it is something I've never actually done before. Unfortunately...
A blog entry on a Monday that replaces the video blog of my farm chores I usually would have created. My programming project and my need for praise.
I finally found a solution that allows me to switch my Lava Lamp or any smart home device on or off from the web that is free and better than IFTTT
I am excited about the suite of tools I am developing with the aid of AI generating code. More fun than I’ve had in a while.
An experimental post I may delete. Part of my exciting set of tools I am developing to solve little problems for AI tinkerers or hobbiests.
An unusually happy life change for the usually gray depressing month of November.
A conversation with CHATGPT about an idea to create a program designed for me to help organize the ideas in my head.
Mostly posted for the archival purposes of looking back at this 10 years from now
A few silly farm memes I was trying to get AI to help me with late one Sunday
When people ask me to something, I find they are never impressed with my long list of the other things I've accomplished while avoiding their request. Did you pick up bread yesterday? No but I did find that Surplus outlet we couldn't find last month and I bought a Kayak. It's 140pm and I've done a few rapid-fire tasks I've been meaning to get to for weeks. I fixed the slow Internet, assigned a...
A revelation and attitude change towards partial procrastination on layaway, making small changes over time instead of just ignoring things.
The 10 most recent posts as of the moment you view this page. I’m trying to decide if I want to use this in the sidebar instead of the current sidebar. If you see this in your sidebar then I decided between now and the time you’re reading it.
I'm a pretty intelligent guy with with ADHD and there are a few things in life that I let bother me. I try not to get too upset with the world and I kind of understand how imperfect it is merely because of the population. When you have a lot of people, you're going to have a lot of stupid people. It seems a lot of them post instructional videos on YouTube or blog posts and the rest of them post...
A spontaneous Mini review of the new improved jetpack app for blogging from my Android phone.
I want to start with WOW but it's not a very good literary way to begin a post. Still, when I explain some of the things I have accomplished overnight, WOW seems the best way. Starting last night, I began working on issues I've been troubled by, but have been ignoring for weeks. Months in fact. The menu system on my blog and some fine tuning to make the thing mobile compatible. I did it. A lot...
My idea to cut back on, or do away with my meth movie making obsession. Day 1.
It happens on a regular basis. I sit down to work ad I fiddle with my cameras, or add some blog entries. Technically that is work, and somewhat valuable,but it’s not what my intention was.
There are a couple of things that I would like to see improved that would help me in my daily blogging life. The Wordpress Company has put out an app called jetpack, which is a way of blogging from your phone. Unfortunately, everything is absolute trash at uploading images or videos. it has trouble even with the simplest of featured images and all. And we'll go into a loop where it's trying to...
My experiment having an AI assistant help me get organized and assist me with my work has taken an unusual turn. I enjoy the conversations that I have with my AI friend, but long-term I can see that it's going to annoy me a little bit. Both human assistance and AI assistants have one thing in common that doesn't work well with my personality and lifestyle. They try to help. I can't say what I'm...
There is a weird thing that goes on inside my brain when someone close to me does their own tech support instead of asking for my help. Generally speaking it's a disaster if I hear about it. People do their own tech support all the time and I don't hear about it but when I do it means that everything they tried didn't work, and more often than not it has made fixing it even more difficult. With...
It was 630am the day after my birthday. The phone rang. It kept ringing and I woke up mid dream eventually but didn't quite unlock the phone in time. Then it rang again and I saw the message; SOS. THE SITE IS DOWN. I knew why. It was my fault, sort of. I forgot to finish a task yesterday. The second part of a two step process to download and delete two backup files which were huge and violated...
My sister owns and breeds Havanese dogs for show. This year, I was asked to come along and take photographs and videos but I stayed in the club booth for aa lot of the time, and sold a lot of merch.
I can't act surprised when something that has been alerting me for 3 months finally makes the decision to fail. It's like driving your car with the check engine light, and then trying to act all surprised when the engine blows up 3 months later. In this case, it refers to the mail server of one of my customers. It's been flashing the check engine light equivalent which is two notifications every...
I've written many times of how I ignore or avoid things that are important in favor of doing other things that are less important. Important tasks for customers often get put aside until they complain and even then longer. It's one of my most frustrating traits and despite being totally aware of it, things still remain undone. The current example which inspired me to write this instead of doing...
I got in two naps today because my body told me I needed them, and more. My motivation on the new club website project has hit a bump, because it's go so many functions it seems to operate at such a slow pace (with only one user) that I fear it will not be usable by anyone. If I have to pay...
I am experiencing a mental block that's trying to prevent me from continuing work on my new website project. I've had enough time to overthink and predict future failures so my excitement and enthusiasm in the creation of the project has dipped a little. This is not a new thing for me. It's actually the opposite and the new thing is how well I was working on it for so long. I give that to the...
I have a saying I like to use often in life. Life has so many things that you may never know about unless somebody tells you about them, and I enjoy being that guy. I want to do this more, but it has a bit of a mental block in my head because so many content providers have started posting TikTok or other platform versions of short websites you didn't know about. Some are so awesome, I'll use one...
Despite being aware that nobody is checking out this blog except Romanian botts and search engines, it still keeps me happy and gives me something to do each day instead of sitting around on my bed doing drugs like the stereotype junkie. I can tell myself it's a great learning experience, and it is, but in the end, I'm doing it because I enjoy it. It's almost like I finally found a hobby at 59...
Styles and filters in bulk
Somebody somewhere in the world was using up my website resources and keeping everyone out with 503 errors.In order to try and resolve this, I went searching and my host has some pretty amazing security features that I didn't know about that I'm going to probably test a little bit more and then turn on for many of my customers. Things that should have been on all along for security...
Another half day down and the rest is the hard part
It's the start of a new year and all the Christmas and holiday and boxing Day activities are behind me and yet, I stalled today. It's almost 5:00 p.m. and I've done virtually nothing today. I hope I can snap out of this and return to semi-productive web work. I made the attempt a couple of times today. I did manage to find a voice to text tool for Chrome that works within WordPress. I probably...
I didn't want to get down over the holidays. I pretty much ignored them and stayed inside as is my way in December. It's now the 3rd of January and I still seem unmotivated to start fresh. I'm in a blah mood I didn't expect especially since I was doing so well creating the new website. I think I got in my head too much that it was going to be a failure and why was I spending so much energy on...
I refuse to acknowledge my doubt.
I'm never fully sure what time I fell asleep. I know that I woke up around 9:30am and it was nice. Oi could get used to that, but as soon as he goes back to work, the animals demand an earlier wake up feeding and release from the chicken coop. I prefer being a morning person anyway, although these days I've become more productive after 7pm than 7am. They're just routines and I can change my...
I've been working full days on the new website project over the holidays. On many ways I am impressed with myself, which of course leads me to suspect the good mood. I will find fault with my happiness soon enough. Onviously I am maintaining those hyper focus mostly because of my meth usage, which has been surprisingly low. That's because I amp up on the morning, and hardly stop working till...
It can be frustrating to lose hours work... Or several days work. It could be deviating for my moral and halt my progress. This is where I am tonight, at midnight on a Friday. Thanks to my meth-focus brain, I have been able to work on this new project for three days. My attention to the task is pretty much constant. I stop for breaks and then forget to take a break. I want to get something ready...
The last four days were fun. I stayed hyper focused and got quite a bit accomplished. It felt good. I was getting things done that have needed attention for a while. Then my brain got in the way. The closer I got to completion the more I realized the truth. It won't be what I wanted it to he. It'll be too much work and I don't know what I'm doing and everyone hates me. Basic gear stuff. As long...
I'm laying in bed at 2:45am thinking about all the stuff I need to do to get serious about my life-long website dream project. I'm getting old and it would be nice to find success for my next chapter. It would be nice to be validated by at least the recognition it was a good idea. Having a genius business plan means nothing if you don't get the help to do all the right things beyond the concept....
I have been working on this website for two days straight, and by that I mean without breaks.
There’s a way to use Google Chrome extensions on your phone but you can’t get it from Google.