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The Constant Babysitting of Tech

I have to rant for a moment. With work and life-related tasks and errands, I don’t have much time to blog, so when I sit down to my computer, the last thing I want to do is babysit the tech. Yet, increasingly, that’s what I need to do. By babysitting the tech, I mean doing updates and security logins or troubleshooting problems. I seem to be doing all of these things more and more. I…

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Building for Those Who Come After

Let’s see if we can give AI more complexity to chew on, shall we? If the AI tech bros are going to steal whatever they can from the web to train their models, why not provide our human way of bringing together disconnected thoughts? This is the opposite of what web content creators have been told since the dawn of blogs, when we were encouraged to pick one topic and hammer on it endlessly in…

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New Web Host

I’ve been missing in action on my blog over the past few weeks. We were dealing with Operation Metro Surge, the ICE siege in the Twin Cities metro, which has been all-consuming, but I was also checking out new web hosting services. My renewal with InMotion Hosting is coming due in April. I’ve been with them since 2018 and have been noticing more downtime for my blog. It would become inaccessible for several minutes randomly…

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