Coding with Perplexity AI – Hirst Painting Drawer
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Coding with Perplexity AI – Hirst Painting Drawer

Ive not been using AI a lot, frankly, I find it to be pretty lame for the most part, the images are almost always weirdly uncanny and ugly, and the writing is just bland. I've heard it's pretty good at coding though, and I have not tried using it for code at all. So I decided to give it a go. Specifically, I wanted to use it to augment an existing project from when I was taking that 100 Days of Python course. Specifically, Day 18, the Hirst Painting Project. The full original code is here: import colorgram from turtle import…
Wrap-Up: Lets Try to Be Positive Edition
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Wrap-Up: Lets Try to Be Positive Edition

It's been a hot minute since I really posted. To be blunt, I am pretty much just endlessly frustrated lately over the state of everything. Particularly the state of politics here in the US. I mean, I knew it would be shitty. I didn't think it was going to be THIS relentlessly shitty, this quickly. Lets take a peek inside the background at some journal topics here... Or not. Lets try to, I dunno, be positive I guess. Whats been going on lately that is not awful. Learning Like last year, I started doing some leader-led training courses after work…
What I’ve Been Playing – High Fashion Edition
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What I’ve Been Playing – High Fashion Edition

This is more of a what's new in games I have been playing I suppose. My game playing has extremely stagnated and I have honestly stagnated on how much I give a shit about games (and almost everything honestly). But let's not dwell too deeply on that right.... Right? Everything is fine. Fortnite I went back to Fortnite a but recently. Mostly because I remembered there was a Godzilla thing going on. I have yet to see the Godzilla thing after several matches. I never saw Dr Doom either. I am not sure why they make these special things that…
Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media
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Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media

And other Hyperbolic click baity headlines. Two articles today. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/ And https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unprecedented-growth-Facebook-blocks-links-to-Instagram-alternative-Pixelfed-10237928.html Basically, Mastodon, the Federated Open Source client for microblogging is shifting itself to be a not for profit company. John Mastodon os no longer in control. Or, he won't be. These things apparently take a few months to do. Tangentially related, its picture centric counterpart Pixelfed, has experienced unprecedented growth. I saw one post where a Pixelfed instance was no longer allowing Instagram importing and Facebook is apparently blocking links to Pixelfed. Both of these moves are very good for the internet as a whole, but they also…