Tech

I have zero coding skills, but I coaxed ChatGPT to write a JavaScript blogging tool

I asked ChatGPT to generate illustrations for books, TV shows and movies, including “The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet,” “M*A*S*H,” “Die Hard,” and more

App review: Map routes with your finger using Footpath

My essential and useful Obsidian plugins

Logseq vs. Obsidian: First impressions

Movies

“The Hucksters:” A sitthroughable 1947 romcom and satire starring Clark Gable

We watched “Mr. Holmes,” a 2015 movie featuring Ian McKellen as 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes.

“You’ve got me? Who’s got you?!” Rewatching Christopher Reeve’s “Superman”

The secret history of Napoleon Bonaparte: Watching “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (2002) starring Ian Holm

Books

My 15 minutes of badass literary scholarship

Every so often I like to get inspired by reading about the writer Robert B. Parker

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A humorous document from my father’s service in Word War II