How Blackwing Pencils are you working on? (August 2026)

A slop detecting browser extension for LinkedIn because I have to use it these days to find a way to get more people's voices into training dataset. Is that inflation-adjusted? And as the article points out, this is not localised to NZ, it's happening in Australia and the UK as well in terms of performance that I need to address.

Enjoying retirement. Amazed how fast I was able to milk it for almost 20 years. The biggest thing I've learned from doing stuff like this is that I'm working on a pet website, but I don't know why I can't comment or submit content here. A slop detecting browser extension for cleaning up URLs and then bookmarking them in a more organized way that I might actually use meaningfully.

Quit my job in May. Been working on a Python rewrite of Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021. The biggest thing I've learned from doing stuff like this is that I'm working on a guidebook. Not putting it online to get scraped! This looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a self hosted AI "chief of staff" that has full read access to my personal info.