I’m having this weird, creeping feeling of dread as I read more news.
I’m middle class. I make a decent salary. I own a home and have a mortgage.
But… I could become homeless, if I make enough mistakes in my life.
That’s pretty scary. I think America’s leaders need to actually try to support homeless people. Truly they represent an underclass with no voice.
https://adarook.bandcamp.com/album/unkillable-angel
This album, UNKILLABLE ANGEL by Ada Rook, rocks.
It’s excellent.
That’s it. That’s the whole review. Go listen to it.
UPDATE 05/02/2025:
This album means a lot to me. As someone who feels like a kid stuck in an adult’s body sometimes, this album talks about that.
It talks about how early trauma can warp and distort you, and make you act out constantly.
It also talks about the raw joy that comes from being a kid, and how it can feel lost sometimes as an adult.
Corporate america seems addicted to acceleration and causing burnout.
I recently read a Microsoft article about AI, about “Frontier Firms”.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/2025-the-year-the-frontier-firm-is-born
I think America needs to slow down.
When I read Microsoft’s article about “Frontier Firms”, I just fear that companies will use this as an excuse to fire workers and replace them with AI agents, and then over-work existing “high performing” employees.
What’s the difference between “malware” and “software”?
In my opinion, it’s the human who labels the code that. Code is merely a mechanism to modify data. It has no emotions, intent, “inherent evil-ness”, etc. Do hammers enjoy being used to hammer nails?
A gun is an inert piece of metal. So is a screwdriver, or a hammer. You can use them to hunt for food and build a house, or to hurt other people. Are they “safe”? When are they not “safe”?
A poorer black friend of mine, let’s call him “M”, with friends in O-Block (a dangerous south suburb/flat complex), recently described some interesting concepts to me.
An example: When you grow up with a $500,000 inheritance in the suburbs, and your father watches Fox news and makes fun of the “retarded protestors” that are angry about how George Floyd was murdered, you might think it’s hilarious and learn that it’s a form of humor.
Paying for Windows?
23andme going out of business!
Okay. So…business cards suck! They’re annoying, expensive to get printed, and get outdated quickly. I’ve been to so many networking events where I’ve gotten a stack of business cards, only to throw them away a few weeks later.
Let’s fix it with technology!
See below for a picture of my business card.
3 years ago, in 2022, I made a ReactJS package to render business cards in HTML:
https://github.com/meltingscales/react-business-card-hfbp?tab=readme-ov-file
I recently read an interesting article about a neural network that, instead of artificial neurons, has logic gates.
https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn
The paper described its neural network as “sparse”, and this made me want to ask ChatGPT “Why does this paper describe logic-gate networks as sparse?”
I didn’t realize this really important fact:
In “Deep Neural Networks”, they’re called “Deep” because it’s a 2D matrix of nodes “neurons” that are FULLY CONNECTED to every single output in the previous layer.
Okay!!!
TL:DR; Don’t pay for a domain name. Don’t pay for hosting. It’ll teach you stuff but is annoying to maintain!
Use GitHub Pages. Or .carrd.co. It’s free. It’s simple. It works. It doesn’t cost $144/year. The build system is simple. It’s hard to mess up. And you can literally copy my site, or someone else’s.
I’ve gone through many different iterations of this:
2019: Custom HTML.
2020: ^^
2021: Hugo + GitHub Pages.
2022: Hugo with a custom theme.
2023: ReactJS custom site.
2024: ^^
2025: Back to Hugo + GitHub Pages.