At the advice of Corey Doctorow I’ve gotten an RSS reader for myself and subscribed to a bunch of blogs. It’s refreshingly simple and good-feeling heritage tech, when tech was for the people.

I fixed this website’s parameters to make the RSS work properly (or, at least, as far as I can tell). I’m using a preconfigured theme; digging into the code that forms the index.xml file I saw that the placeholder (is it called a shortcode? a method? I’m not sure) was {{ .Permalink }}, but it was resolving to /; not helpful on the wider web. The solution was to change the baseURL to my domain name explicitly, and create permalink templates in the configuration.

I was amused by “AI” when it took off in the winter of 2022-2023. My friends and I took turns generating comedic images, probing our imagination for the most incongruous prompts to see what humor could manifest. More than one year later, I’ve developed a distaste for generative technology, but more than that a sense of foreboding. I doubt that I have any new opinions here but I find it worth writing down anyway.