Tag: technology
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RIP JCD
On Wednesday I learned that columnist and podcaster John C. Dvorak, a person that I’ve been following since I was a teenager, died on Monday, July 20, 2026. I started reading his columns in PC Magazine back in the 1980s and more recently started listening to him on the DH Unplugged and No Agenda podcasts.…
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I’m building podcast tools like mad!
First a Podcast RSS Feed Creator/Editor, then a podcast player app, so why not complete the podcast toolset loop and create a transcriber and a chapter creator! Done! You know you were asking for it. Well, at least I was. And, now with how good AI has gotten with turning my ramblings into working products…
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Say hello to my podcast player app
I’m building crap software left and right now! Feeling flush with success from building my own personal RSS feed builder I was compelled to build my own podcast app. Well… when I say build I mean Claude.ai built it while I told it what I want. It only took me a couple of weeks. I…
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I built a podcast RSS feed builder using AI tools
I’ve been trying to build my own podcast RSS feed creator using AI. I understand programming concepts, but I am terrible at writing and debugging code. I don’t have the patience for it. When people started using AI tools to build software, I figured I would finally be able to cobble something together. Over the…
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My 15 year old Dell desktop feels Minty fresh
I’ve made the switch. Well, I’m 90% of the way there, but it’s finally happening. I’ve moved to Linux Mint from Microsoft Windows. I know everyone is interested in my choice of OS, and I’m a people pleaser, so here’s your blog post. I’ve been in the Microsoft ecosystem since DOS 5.0 and moved to…
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Super Abundance doesn’t account for a super abundance of human nature
There is a growing belief that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon usher in a post-scarcity world where money becomes meaningless, work disappears, and everything from food to housing is free. Elon Musk and others have suggested that advanced AI paired with humanoid robots like Optimus will make labor obsolete and create “universal high income.”…