About Me
The problem with today's AI/ML craze is that companies are too hot for the dollar bills associated with the buzz. They try too hard to make AI the star feature of their product.
That's the wrong way to use it.
Every photograph tells you something about the photographer. How they think, what they like, how they work - it's as much a glimpse into their inner life as it is a glimpse into the frozen moment of time they've captured.
Yep, you guessed it: this post is a rant about generative art.
I've been trying out a note-taking tool called Obsidian for the past few months. I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
It's available on plenty of platforms and primarily uses Markdown syntax for formatting. This is good, because it means that I can quickly copy and paste my drafts into my Markdown-based static site generator (Sculpin) often without needing any formatting updates.
Over the years, I've accumulated a lot of small PHP projects that are in varying stages of their maintenance lifecycle. Sometimes they feel like overgrown cars lying in a fallow yard, wheels gone, propped up on blocks, forgotten. I'm getting around to improving them, but occasionally I hit roadblocks.
Right now, a tiny but annoying roadblock is PHP 8.1's deprecation of the strftime() function. One of my Whateverthing projects uses it a handful of times in various ways. I need to find an alternative pattern to replace it, one which is either brief and low-effort, or more robust but available to all the sections of the codebase.