Articles

A Hallmark Channel AI Christmas

Published December 3, 2020

Another piece I wrote in collaboration with an A.I., this time, trying to create the most stereotypical Hallmark movie plot possible. I failed.

Fixing GPG Yubikey Integration on MacOS Big Sur

Published November 28, 2020 in Tech

I had some trouble after upgrading GPGTools to version 2020.2 on macOS Big Sur, where it would ignore my Yubikey smart card and I couldn’t unlock my stuff.

Painfully Rendering a Simple Bar Chart With Nivo

Published November 15, 2020 in Tech

I’ve been working on a graphing project for the Astoria Digital volunteer group in collaboration with Muckrock . The app will visualize data around New York’s 50a police disciplinary record requests.

PHP Boolean Casting Gotchas

Published October 18, 2020 in Tech

I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone.

Actually Using the General Sibling Combinator

Published July 30, 2020 in Tech

I’ve vaguely known about CSS’s general sibling combinator for a while, but I have never found a practical use case for it, until now. And let me tell you, the results are, get ready for it, underwhelming.

Introducing PCG: Or, How I'm Spending the Pandemic

Published May 9, 2020 in Games Tech

A lot has changed in the world since I last posted. I have been extremely lucky during this pandemic. I am still employed, I can work from home, and I have my wife to shelter with. I do not take these things for granted. And yet.

Zoovac's Dream Part 3

Published January 8, 2020 in Fiction

Too much A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: https://pcg.wikia.com.

Zoovac's Dream Part 2

Published January 8, 2020 in Fiction

More A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: https://pcg.wikia.com.

Zoovac's Dream: Part 1

Published January 8, 2020 in Fiction

A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: https://pcg.wikia.com.

Starry Mustard House

Published January 7, 2020 in Fiction

I won’t lie: this is the darkest, horniest piece of A.I. assisted fiction I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen very little. It does have a happy ending, however.

Detect This

Published January 6, 2020 in Fiction

I’ve been writing(ish?) stories via https://aidungeon.io, a ML algorithm trained on text adventure games. The first was a fantasy , and this one is a detective story. It gets weird.

Chris the Wizard

Published January 4, 2020 in Fiction

I’ve been writing(ish?) fiction via the fantastic https://aidungeon.io, which is a machine learning algorithm trained on text adventure games.

Understanding Your Cat, Astrologically

Published January 4, 2020 in Fiction

This is a piece I wrote for McSweeny’s that I didn’t think would get published, but wanted to go through the process regardless. As suspected, it was not published. Here it is, in all it’s rejected glory.

🕹️ Don't Get Pantsed!

Published November 13, 2019 in Fiction

My Facebook Ad Data

Published March 17, 2019 in Tech

Today I downloaded all the data Facebook has on me, and started poking through it. Since it’s been the focus of every privacy scandal, I went straight to the ad data. I found two items.