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When putting together that last post, I wanted to batch resize and change format for a pile of images. This macOS shortcut was pretty helpful.

ChatGPT So, recently, I was messing around with ChatGPT and got a cute invite to try their image generation features. It gave this sample prompt: Turn this photo into a magical “Mini Me” world where …

Spent a little time working on syndicating blog posts to Mastodon. I’ve had different syndication schemes in the past like Twitter, Facebook, and even Mastodon, but they’ve all used IFTTT. …

The mrs. got a text and email from our bank saying they think a recent charge for Amazon Prime subscription was fraud. Unclear why. We buy lots of stuff from Amazon all the time, so it wasn’t out of …

… in the lightning connector on my phone. Yes, my iPhone is old enough to still have a lightning connector. Sigh. I noticed my battery was mostly dead at 5pm so I plugged into my mac for a quick top …

I’ve never seen a real one in real life, but these are so cool. I didn’t know the story behind them or that they did models other than the Golf.

I’m kinda bored with Wordpress. Its bloated, kinda annoying to maintain, and has some questionable leadership at this point. I’d looked at migrating to an SSG in the past, but none jumped out as being …

I don’t go to many concerts any more, but I still keep mostly up-to-date with Dave Matthews Band shows via bootlegs. Props to Dreaming Tree.org for doing all the leg work. Ironically, my external …

So, I haven’t been a regular Windows user in 2 decades. My son told me his laptop was ill. He was playing Minecraft and had a hard crash. After recovering from the crash he noticed his bluetooth …

Dropping daughter off at high school this morning… On road up to school, SUV speeds past me and does a daring needle thread maneuver to change lanes between me and another car; only to stop at a red …