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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

I have given myself a night off and ordered from the fish and chips place. However all the images of their food on the delivery thing are now generative slop that look nothing like what's going to show up.

Is everyone just ignoring this? I'm used to accepting that pictures of food were usually dressed up and "best case scenario" but god damn this is just wildly wrong.

Show me one Australian who is ordering a Chiko Roll and expecting this:

Generated image of some kind of spring roll presented on a wooden board with chopped veggies and a little dipping bowl of sauce