I found myself in a rare position yesterday morning: I didn’t know what I was going to write about for this newsletter. The best I had was a vague idea about the point I wanted to make. Then my youngest daughter, Abby, asked me…
Over the weekend, I saw Toy Story 5, which I highly recommend. You will probably cry. While sitting through the obnoxious amount of ads and previews (about 30 minutes’ worth and enough that all three of my kids asked, “when will the movie start?”),…
Last week the parish carnival was in town. It’s one of my kids’ favorite summer events so we got the weekly pass, which ended up saving us $120 (seriously, we were there like 60% of the time it was open). At several points, my…
There’s a children’s game in Philly / eastern PA that’s called “Whisper Down the Lane.” Pretty much the rest of the USA calls it “Telephone.” If you’re unfamiliar with the game, a bunch of kids sit in a line, and the first person whispers…
I remember the first time I went to see my accountant. I was around 19 or 20, and figured it was time for me to treat my side hustle of building websites as an actual business. I had been reading books on how to…
Back when I taught Computer Science at The University of Scranton, I was tasked with teaching what most faculty viewed as an unenviable course: Computer Literacy. It was a required course that all freshmen had to take, and we didn’t teach software development in…
When I was in high school, I wanted people to like me. I thought being really nice was the way to do that, so any time someone asked me for a favor, I was much more apt to say yes than no. Nowhere was…
I was watching Noah Kahan, the SNL musical guest over the weekend, when I came to a realization about why I’ve had a pretty big resurgence in my interest in the show lately. Yes — part of it is the 50th anniversary last year…
Picture this: you wake up and you have this weird feeling…but you can’t quite put your finger on it. This feeling of doubt…like you’re struggling to think clearly. Like you’re in a bit of a brain fog. “I’m sure it’s fine,” you think. Some…
For all of my talk about how terrible LLMs (AI, colloquially) usually are, it might seem surprising to you that I shelled out $100 for a month of Claude MAX*, and will likely do it again. But my beef with LLMs isn’t that they…
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