Wait, Twitter Knew The “Russian Bot” Narrative Was Fake… For Five Years?

Jan 30, 202310 min read

It’s been a little more than three months since Elon Musk burst into the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, bathroom sink in tow, wryly captioning…

Working with Environment Variables (Tech Note)

Jan 5, 20233 min read

When developing software, it’s good practice to put anything you don’t wish to be public, as well as anything that’s “production-environment-dependent” into environment variables. These…

Enchanted Rose 2.0 with Falling Petals

Jan 1, 202313 min read

Enchanted Rose 2.0 with Falling Petals Got a performance of Beauty and the Beast coming up? For about $200, you can build this Enchanted Rose…

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Web Server with Its Own Wifi Network (Tech Note)

Dec 28, 202218 min read

The Raspberry Pi (RPi) microcomputer is great for building cheap “Internet of Things” devices. In this tech note, I outline how to set up a…

Sifting Through the FTX Rubble

Dec 12, 202212 min read

Update, December 12 2022: Bankman-Fried Arrested https://twitter.com/SDNYnews/status/1602451395910803457?s=20&t=n1AV105zT7l6dNXv1m8Wlg 2022 has been quite a year for the co-founder of crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. In February, Bankman-Fried…

Engines of Wow, Part III: Opportunities and Pitfalls

Dec 3, 202214 min read

This is the third in a three-part series introducing revolutionary changes in AI-generated art. In Part I: AI Art Comes of Age, we traced back…