Premise I am experimenting with creating prompts that can be executed on a regular basis. Is this agentic? I have no idea, but I am trying to get there. This particular task is a pragmatic one; if I need groceries,… Read More »Grocery Shopping Agent
Documenting the Build This is the second article in a series call Breaking the Monolith. Because I want to document this process, I plan to use Gemini to do some writing about this project, so I started a second chat… Read More »Documenting the process
Building a Solution in a Modern Stack I’ve spent my career in the Microsoft stack. MS SQL, C#, ASPX… a world I know inside out. If I wanted to build a Formula 1 statistics app (F1DB) the “easy” way, I’d… Read More »Breaking the Monolith
Overview When working with complex layouts in HTML, “invisible” spacing issues like nested padding, margin collapse, or rogue containers can be difficult to diagnose with just the browser’s native inspector alone. A lot of folks will use the age old… Read More »One-Line CSS Grid Debugging
I often see a lot of anti-AI chatter on social media, and I think that’s for the most part…totally valid…there is a lot of garbage out there, so much garbage. When I find a good use for ChatGPT where I… Read More »ChatGpt can be used for good
I’m new to 3D printing and all the fun that comes with it. Like a lot of folks, I jumped into projects like Gridfinity and Multiboard—plus designed a few things myself. I did alright at first but soon saw that… Read More »Designing a New object in Bambu Studio
Disclaimer OK, first things first…This project deals with electricity, specifically the cover of a North American receptacle. I am not an electrician. I am not even that bright. Anything I explain here is my own stupidity and if you repeat… Read More »Designing a Wall Plate from Scratch, sort of
My prints started printing like this…in that…nothing would print right. I could only get some minor small prints to work, everything else failed miserably. And if I am being honest, most of the small prints failed too. I began researching… Read More »Wash before printing
I am currently in the process of migrating backups and archives from old CD’s and DVD’s to my Synology NAS. Using a USB attached drive, this is a slow and monotonous process. This morning, I even considered…abandoning this endeavor, keeping… Read More »“Curdling Like milk”
Many years ago…maybe decades ago…Usenet groups were the place for discussion. In one of the climbing groups, we were discussing the safety of using biners that had been dropped on hard surfaces like concrete. As the debate raged on, I… Read More »SMC Dropped Carabiner Data