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I'm working on an interactive wildlife & plant identification quiz powered by iNaturalist: https://arthurdick.github.io/local-biodiversity-trainer/

I don't think poker is good for people either. The goal of poker is to win, taking money from other players by exploiting their weaknesses. It's a training ground to become ruthles…

Humbled to see the new official timeline of physics: Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and now... Grok in 2025 claiming a single bit-flip explains life, the universe, and everything. What…

Software development is rarely a solo activity. You will need to communicate with other developers, product managers, designers, and non-technical stakeholders.

I still use traditional browser-based bookmarking, and sync with my Firefox account. I don't see the need to share my bookmarks.

An LLM will generally go along with whatever you prompt it with. Try asking it to be skeptical: https://g.co/gemini/share/78b94bea5977

The "Participatory Interface Theory" is not a scientific theory. It is a work of science fiction masquerading as physics. It uses the following techniques to create an illusion of …

I built my own recurring task manager, Perennial Task, to overcome the limitations I faced with TaskWarrior. Both are open source, so it's not something I was paying for.

I think you could more simply disable the YouTube app in the Gemini settings.

Recently I've been working on a project I call term-to-svg. It's a command-line tool that converts terminal session recordings into animated SVG images. https://github.com/arthurdi…

I just finished packaging a personal project I've been using for years: Perennial Task (prn), a command-line task manager written in PHP. It's designed to be simple and local-first…

Hi Matt, I can't find any contact info in your profile. You may want to review the OpenAI best practices for API key safety: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5112595-best-practi…

Good work! It took me 21 moves. 1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. e4 Nxe4 6. Bd3 Nxc3 7. bxc3 h6 8. Nf3 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Bb2 Nc6 11. Qb3 Na5 12. Qa4 Bd7 13. Qxa5 c5 14…

With my CLI Simulator, you can now practice and explore various commands directly within your browser, without the need to install any additional software.

PlotBranch is a side project of mine generating branching stories using GPT4. You may run into a generation screen if you request a page nobody has viewed before. "The Paradoxical …

My site is mainly for my own entertainment, and I've only been contacted a handful of times with nearly 20 years running it. It is probably helpful to present a competent image whe…

Since experimenting with the GPT models I do notice when posts and articles seem to have used generated content, but I can't identify what it is that gives me this feeling. Maybe i…

I've hacked together my own replacement, as a mini project on my blog: https://arthurdick.com/blog/timer/

This is a vector drawing web app I've been working on in my spare time. It is open source and hosted on Github at https://github.com/arthurdick/drawonpaper