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Vibe coding games isn’t frivolous, it’s essential
Learning by doing to see what’s possible I started “vibe coding” before I even knew the term. My first foray was moving multivariate stats analysis of podcast data from Copilot to VS Code so the (stupid) charts would render. Then I used it to parse and re-write a WordPress XML export file to fix some…
Solving My Problems First
If you want to really understand what AI can do, you have to do it for yourself first. No, this post isn’t about me working through mental/emotional baggage to be a better person—though the title could work for that too—this is about my approach to learning any new tech I come across. Ever since my…
Are you a carriage maker or a car dealer?
Like it or not AI is changing the entire nature of work. The question is, will you keep making carriages, or will you start selling cars.
Hiring today is like playing darts blindfolded
The job of finding a job and hiring for a job is harder and more complex than ever. And AI is only going to make it worse. Just not how you think.
There is No Such Thing as a Secure Encryption Backdoor
Nothing is secure online if there are backdoors into encryption tools.
5 Reasons Why Your Content Engine Is Failing
There are five things that will bring any content marketing engine to its knees. If you don’t plan to avoid them, you’re sure to hit them eventually. Here’s how to avoid that.
Why You Need Me to Write for You
I’m just going to put this out there, I see a lot of people looking for a copywriter/content marketer/word wizard to boost/start/lead their content marketing endeavors. I think a lot of applications get lost in the shuffle, so, based on a cover letter I wrote (and helpfully edited with an AI) here is why you,…
The Secret to Success is Reinvention
I gave a career day talk at Imagine High, the local arts and technology high school here in Chilliwack. This is the kind of school where the kids who don’t fit in, fit in. All the artistic, neuro-spicy, creative, weird, geeky kids who tend not to enjoy, or thrive, in a “normal” high school gravitate…
Generative AI today makes me think it’s 1997 all over again
Websites were a dog’s breakfast back then, but they had to be to get here now Update March 26: Long-time colleague Richard MacManus wrote on Cybercultural about the internet in 1995. It’s worth a read to set the stage for this post. Oh frames, how we loved and hated you so. I started building websites…
Here we are, all over again
You might say I’m a bad blogger. I talk about writing everyday. I talk about what it takes to keep improving your craft. And yet, my blog here has languished for about four years. No new posts No new podcast episodes Pretty much no new nuthin’ since March-April 2021. And why is that? I was…
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