PHP Boolean Casting Gotchas
I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone.
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Download articles as CSVActually Using the General Sibling Combinator
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
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
Too much A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: https://pcg.wikia.com.
Zoovac's Dream Part 2
More A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: https://pcg.wikia.com.
Zoovac's Dream: Part 1
A.I. generated story based on characters from Paper Computer Games: https://pcg.wikia.com.
Starry Mustard House
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
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
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
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!
My Facebook Ad Data
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.
Reading Picks for Week 3 of March, 2019
This is what I’ve been reading this past week.
Reading Picks for Week 2 of March, 2019
This is what I’ve been reading this past week.
Reading Picks for Week 1 of March, 2019
This is what I’ve been reading this past week.
Reading Picks for Week 5 of February, 2019
These are some choice picks from what I’ve been reading for the past few weeks.
Twelve Angry Rejections
“Just frame it like, ‘Let’s see how much I can fail.'”
Don't Commit That File!
I wrote a small git pre-commit hook to prevent committing certain files. There are more words to this, but if you’re impatient, you can skip right to the goods .
The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I.
It’s like if Humphrey Bogart and Tina Fey had a baby. —Stephen Spielberg
Machine Learning
I took a week off from work to join a deep dive study group on machine learning. It was an incredible experience and I want to tell you about what I learned.