Hello
I'm Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.
For information about myself & my philosophy, see the About, Design, and Values pages.
Miniposts are bookmarks, snippets of thought, and syndicated content from elsewhere.
Longform articles are below, sorted by date.
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Projects llms-full.txt
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Mixtape MakerPrepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
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Film Development CalculatorCalculate the time between film baths automagically.
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Timewaste Tracker for Reddit & …A memento mori for how much time you're wasting on Reddit.
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French Republican Calendar ToolsTrack time the old, old fashioned way.
- More Projects
Laundry & The Responsibility of Search Engines
I’d like to take you on a journey through the world of scams, laundry, and search engines.
In 2016, Foldimate, a California based startup, showed the world a laundry folding robot - it was the size of a washing machine, with a slot in the top for garments that would be mechanically folded and...
Read more ⟶The Death of the Search Engine
In the early days of Google and Yahoo the best hack for getting your website to the top of rankings was Keyword Stuffing. You’d make the font blend in with the background and jam in as many relevant (or in many cases completely irrelevant, depending on your intent) keywords as you possibly...
Read more ⟶Fun with Hyperlocal Data
I’ve been drawn to the idea of having many tiny sensors around my home intermittently collecting data points about all sorts of things - the Lumen measurement of our bedroom at night, the noise of the street below us, the AQI of our kitchen.
This was mostly a pipedream until Pimoroni came out...
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