I own like six nail clippers
and I honestly can’t
find
even one

A status field is a contract. It is also the place where most APIsAPI A set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. APIs define the methods and data formats that applications can use to request and exchange information. quietly leak ambiguity, a single word doing the work of three, consumed by people who weren't in the room when you named it. Get it right and an integrator can build correct handling from the payload alone. Get it wrong and they reverse-engineer your intentions from support tickets.

In my earlier post, Shakespeare and Dataism, I argued that incomplete information creates drama, surprise, and joy. Perfect information flattens experience.

I wanted to recreate the feel of holographic trading cards on the web, using CSS masks, blend modes, and a bit of perspective.

The Laughter Lines poetry competition was run by Penstricken, a literary magazine. My poem "Sunset" was one of the top three runners up.

This post is AI generated

I've been working on an interesting project that combines AI, automation, and generative art. It's called ai-art, and it's a self-evolving digital canvas that improves itself over time.

If perfect knowledge is the theoretical endpoint of human understanding—an omniscient, frictionless clarity—then perhaps its inverse, incomplete information, is the essential condition of drama, comedy, and life itself.

During my computer science studies, our introduction to artificial intelligence didn’t begin with neural networks or robotics, but with a parade of definitions:

• “We call programs intelligent if they exhibit behaviors that would be regarded intelligent if they were exhibited by human beings.” — Herbert Simon