Pro Tip: Cheap Link Shortening
You’ve probably encountered them… bit.ly, amzn.to… followed by a slash and then a word or a jumble of a few letters and numbers. They’re called...
Hell on $5 A Day: Getting Some Mojo Back
As some of you may know, Hell on $5 A Day is not a “standalone” book… per se. It was originally conceived to stand on...
Testing reading comprehension in 15 LLMs
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERTThis article discusses asking various models a question about my novel, Hell on $5 A Day, after providing it for context or RAG...
So good looking it hurts (SUNO V4 Engine)
During dinner a few weeks back, I got a fragment of a lyric… “It hurts. You know it hurts. It hurts… being so good looking.”...
A Project A Month… Fizzling?
Hey Greg, you say. Why does that image look like Colin Mochrie trying to perform a Vulcan mind meld on himself? Well, I went over...
Google’s NotebookLM Podcast Generator Gets It Wrong
After Andrew Byrne’s LinkedIn post about him generating a podcast about his career using Google’s NotebookLM, I wondered if I could generate a podcast based...
LokiJS Disk Storage Adapter for NeutralinoJS
One of the choices I’ve had to make in building my SamplesOrganizer app is what database to use. I wanted an in-memory database that could...
Broke my brain with a simple regex
Today I spent WAY too much time debugging why I was getting an empty string from a string replace operation to pull spaces, dashes, and...
How to change the source in howler.js
As I’ve stated, I’ve been working on an app to organize my samples and loops. I plan to open-source the app at the end of...
A Project A Month, That’s All We Ask
Remember the old slogan for Blue Diamond Almonds? “A can a week, that’s all we ask.” I do. Since I started my new productivity hack,...
Should I Own The eBooks I Buy?
If you buy a physical book at Barnes & Noble, you don’t have to go back to your local Barnes & Noble to read it....
My first song… sort of
Now that I have some training in music theory and working with FL Studio under my belt, I started working on taking one of my...
Leaving Facebook is hard…
It’s been 23 days since I submitted my requests to Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. I just have to hold out and not log on for...
2024: A Musical Odyssey
As I’ve noted before, I’m also taking music classes. As a demonstration of a concept in Music Theory, the teacher played Also Sprach Zarathustra. I’m...
Pick Your Nose
I’m taking a Udemy class in vector drawing characters for animation. The class is about drawing characters like those from “Dexter’s Laboratory” or “The Fairly...
Today I learned (TIL) #1
Today I learned “We all live with a very awesome dog” can be sung to the chorus of “Yellow Submarine.” Photo of a cairn terrier...
Was I visited by a ghost?
I’m might have been visited by a ghost last night. I hope I was. Here’s the backstory. In my community college days, my best friend...
Drawing Class Progress
I’m taking a class in creating cartoon characters for animation with Inkscape. I’ve gotten through the eyes, ears, noses, and mouths tutorials, but head and...
Advanced “Hello World!” in Lua
I started learning Lua today. It’s used to script extensions and automations in the Moho animation software I’m considering. Since I forgot my earbuds, I...
Record labels sue Suno and Udio! Is it good for AI?
I'm not a lawyer, but IP law fascinates me and the legal questions around AI are especially interesting. More importantly, they're especially pressing, because there's...