Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Although the two books being reviewed today are the direct subject, the comic book landscape in the early 90s will be the larger target. Within that already esoteric field, we are going to be talking about one particular design tendency among comic books in the early 90s; guns! Back then, it was...

Twice the normal content on this blog post. Two books reviewed! Well, maybe not two complete critiques of two books, but at least one with mentions of another. Both deal with the theme of ‘hacking’. Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley and This is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole...

This is the first post breaking the tradition of reporting on the blog updates, unless I suppose I generate an ‘update’ tag to assign to this blog post. Oh, I need to make those schema changes to the blog_post model. I won’t mention it again, but there are always updates going on. Check the git...

A turning point for the blog is already upon us. Some major dabbling has been done with the LLM libraries available for making a chatbot for the site that could not only answer questions pertaining to the site layout and codebase, but with some sort of Fred Lambuth flavor in the text responses....

The update to report represents more than what is presented to the user. We’ve got some brand new, unprecedented code involved. Over at the /rp section, which is my shorthand for ‘recently_played’, now has color coded boxes grouping the artist names that are found in my artist database. I was...

The updates and their respective blog posts keep coming! The pre-processing job I mentioned in the last post is here, and in a different physical type than I was planning. I was thinking of splitting the results into four CSVs. Instead I went with a Sqlite database, just like I’ve got for my...