Sign Me Up, Please

I’d like to take a popular class for 3d printing at the library, but I can’t get a spot. The ideal LLM assistant could check for class availability and sign me up, without me monitoring the page constantly. Unfortunately we are not there yet. Increasingly complicated attempts to sign up MLK Labs in DC offers apparently highly desirable 3d printing classes. These are posted 30 days out - but have been booked solid for the past few weeks. ...

May 22, 2025

Obligatory Migration Post from Wordpress to Hugo

This is the obligatory moved blog from one framework to a different framework article. Wordpress.com asked me for $78 for a two year subscription. However, I dislike the mobile app and the text editing experience online. I also had difficulties editing any part of the website with the in-browser tools. Originally, I signed up because I wanted my focus to be on writing, rather than on coding, a blog. Simply purchasing the Wordpress plan let me test whether or not I wanted to keep up with writing posts at all. It did that, but I didn’t find that WordPress provided much additional value. ...

January 26, 2025

Monday links

- Whenever I do analyses I am nervous about being wrong, but using Excel’s autofill function to impute data would have definitely been on my “this is not correct to do,” at the very least. - Nice example of a personal project. Contained, clear output, and interesting to the person doing it + delightful to play with and generate maps as a person who has no use for it. It’s fun! - Helpful and clear description of how XSS (cross site scripting) vulnerabilities work and can be identified. ...

February 12, 2024