Palette Generator
I made this with front-end framework Vue.js, which is excellent by the way. Why A Palette Generator? In design it is frequently required to create a palette of colours to give a theme a coherent feel that conveys a certain…
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Some don’t believe I also make music
Look at this ye unbelievers: As of current year the standout popular track is the theme I made for a very popular Starsector mod called “Phillip Andrada Gas Station Manager”, which is about a Latin American banana republic – in…
Parallax Effects in HTML/CSS/JS
Parallax – for an observer in motion relative to a set of objects, those objects apparent position will change in inverse proportion to the distance of the observer. More simply: things far away move a little bit, things close move…
AI + Artists = Better Than Deplorable
Tech as Thaumaturgy: Thumbnail art from “Lost Among Stars dark ambient mix by Atrium Carceri for Cryo Chamber” In a way the images produced by the stable diffusion technique from providers such as Midjourney, epitomise what every beginner artist thinks…
Linux Experiences
One old laptop. Check. A blank USB pen drive. Check. Burn a disc image of Linux Mint using Etcher to the USB pen. Done. Insert pen into old laptop, reboot. Done. Different yet familiar GUI appears – Mint OS appears…
SQL Drill Sergeant
So much of learning comes down to just using the damn thing everyday. SQL Bolt is an excellent site for learning SQL queries by dint of repetition. But there’s plenty of places that do that, what makes this special? It…
“AGI is just round the corner”
A mathematical model is not intelligent, that is a category error. Machines cannot think.
“AI will replace programmers”
Engineering is not about getting the right answers, but asking the right questions.