Hello my dear witness of thoughts! This one's dedicated especially to you. Here we go with another installment of the Unbridled Thoughts series, featuring my random thoughts from April 21st to THE END (of April). What happened in April? Now you should know, my little Ghost blog is
Here we go for all the random documented public thoughts that span from April 16 to April 21st 2026. If you must: please enjoy. These are the final notes that I copied from my Substack profile. 04/16/2026: If I push the buttons on my microwave fast enough, I
Here I'll continue with my microblogging/journaling stuff. This one covers the first half of April 2026 (copied from my Substack). If you want to see part 1: see Unbridled Thoughts 1 04/01/2026: Hello authors and artists. Clearly tech and its technologies are quite rough in
No, you aren't having a stroke. At least, I sure hope. Anyhow, you are likely reading this title correctly. Today we will have some fun with a simple data wrangling exercise that involves encoding text as an image. We will also cover the reverse operation: we'll
I'm enjoying writing some random thoughts and announcements out on Substack. I guess the thing I'm doing could be called microblogging? They call them "notes" over there on Substack, and each can be anything. It is pretty great, but I'd like to
I am not a security expert. I know there is a ton I don't know about the various methods used to execute electronic crimes, or their various mitigations. Still, I feel compelled to talk about some basic ideas surrounding specific areas of computer security that I feel sufficiently
The OpenMoji project is an excellent resource for obtaining handmade creative-commons illustrations. Their website features more than 4,000 simple and beautiful graphics that were designed by a battalion of student artists and are made available to everyone for free. OpenMoji Website By the way, hi hi and high-lo dear
Let's explore one of your browser's most-useful features! Every modern browser comes with a set of development tools that everybody should learn how to use. It is really very simple once you get to understand its parts. Whether it's for inspecting your own creations
I'll get right to the point: it is almost always appropriate to use the WebP format for storing photographic and other detailed images on the web. This fact is generally common sense for the seasoned web developer. The WebP format was intentionally designed for the purpose of efficiently
Shirley, dear librarian, no doubt by now you know how much I must love publishing text on the web. Isn't it divine? Now it is time for you to know that I also believe the web is a great place for publishing and preserving all sorts of visual
Previous: Web Development for Artists: 3 Hi, high five, high and hello. I had a feeling I'd see you back here before too long. Welcome back, dear student. How are you feeling about learning today? Today we are destined to create an image gallery page for your independent
Previous: Web Development for Artists: 2 Next: Web Development for Artists: 4 Hello again, hello, dear student. Welcome back to class. It's good to see you here. I feel I've waited for 1,000 years! But here, you've come to say, "hello"
Previous: Web Development for Artists: 1 Next: Web Development for Artists: 3 Hello again, dear student! Welcome back. I missed you. In our last installment, I rambled through a sort of course introduction and then described the steps to take in order to launch your new independent website. If all
Next: Web Development for Artists: 2 Hello and welcome to the first installment of this series, "Web Development for Artists" If you are joining us as an artist or author who wants to learn some practical skills in the realm of web development, you are in the right
Have you experienced an AI social scam yet? Overall I think new technologies have had a positive impact on the frequency of encountering scams. Still, the ones that do get through these days feel more uncanny than absurd. "AI scams" seem mostly similar to regular social scams, except
Hello my dear librarians. Here we will hold our online reading club for the book, "Ozma of Oz" Which was written by L. Frank Baum in the year 1907. If you don't have a physical copy of the book, you can use this accesible and distraction-free
This isn't a rant, I promise. Although it will be a challenge to frame this objectively after a title that is so judgy. I love photography. I love drawings and paintings and sculptures. I love digital art. I (used to) love seeing strange creations made purely by a
Colors, colors, everywhere! But not a drop to drink... Colors are cool. Except, of course, the colors that are warm or neutral. 😑 Do you have a favorite color? Maybe it is just your favorite for today. Please let us know. Maybe your favorite color is different, depending on the context.
Hello my dear librarians. Here we will hold our asynchronous reading club for the book, "The Marvelous Land of Oz" Which was written by L. Frank Baum in the year 1904. Are you reading the book? If you don't have a physical copy, you can access
Hello my dear librarians. Here we will hold our asynchronous reading club for the book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Which was written by L. Frank Baum in the year 1900. Are you reading the book? If you don't have a physical copy, you can access
Last year I brewed the world's most delicious near-beer. It was beginners luck. Ever since, I've been reluctant to try again. Why? I don't really know. I've been telling myself it is to do more important things or that there are prerequisites
In this article I'm going to briefly go over the technologies that I frequently use for creating things. Here's what most of my creative technology stack looks like. Django Django is something I've been working with for a while. Around 10 years now. I
In my last post, I opened by reminiscing about how I missed watching a certain YouTube channel. Now I'm thinking about how much I miss it, and what on earth could be done about it. I must have some panic disorder. For a time, calm YouTube shows like
Gosh I miss watching that show. I wish YouTube hadn't lathered on the ads or ad-free extortion so heavily that I can't go there anymore. What I want is a 24/7 streaming channel showing Technology Connections videos that doesn't involve being mentally extracted