Hey!

I am looking for work again. So if you are Germany based and looking for an awesome machine learning, data scientist, statistician, software human I want to talk to you!

#fedihired #getfedihired

If I used an ML-based (Machine Learning, I refuse to call it AI since there is no intelligence there) dictation app to write my novel, would I be accused of writing an AI-generated novel? 😛

#Musings #TechVsCreativity

Did a quick digital painting last night to serve as the icon for the reference image app that I'm building. Not happy with the image (and it needs work) but putting it up since this is the first digital art I've done in a while ...

Won't work as icon either 😛

#DigitalArt #Painting
A digital painting of a multi-c…

There are a lot of wonderful artists online and I'm inspired by just looking at their work. I also look at these images to learn from them.

I wanted an easier way to collect and look at the images I liked and so yesterday, I created a new app for that 🙂

Now I'm inspired to start doing some art again!

#Coding #Flutter #Art
A screenshot of a macOS applica…

Didn't get any writing (at least the text kind) done today ...

Started out wanting to do a couple of minor changes to the Bluesky client app and then to get to writing, but instead, spent the whole day adding list functionality to the client. It works. But no writing 🙁

#Coding #Writing #YakShaving

I like amnesia stories 🙂 "Miss You" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32553846) was interesting not just because of the amnesia aspect but also because of the way the story unfolds.

What you think happened/is happening is not always the case. I liked the layering.

#Movies #Tamil #Kollywood

30+ years ago, I used to do Freeware because I enjoyed building stuff that others found useful. (I also met my wife because of that 🙂)

Today, I think most people won't download it because it's free. Or, they'll wonder if I'm stealing their data or training AI with it 😛

#Coding #Freeware #Musings

Exciting news! Trip Tunes was named App of the Year by What the Tech! 🎉

Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded, shared, and supported the app.

To celebrate—and to help with your New Year’s travel—I'm running a 2X tapes sale. Perfect time to relive the mixtape magic! 🎵🛣️

Check out the broadcast: wbbjtv.com/2024/12/26/what-the-tech-app-of-the-year-trip-tunes

When you say SciFi, people might think rayguns and aliens. For humorous SciFi though, I don't know if they'd have a clear idea.

To me, it's Reagan and aliens — not the crossing borders without visas kind, but the extraterrestrial kind 😛 How would Ronald have reacted to aliens?

#Writing #Humour #ScienceFiction

I had a vivid image of a scene (and the text to accompany it) as I was halfway inbetween sleep and wakefulness last night 🙂

While my ability to paint isn't great, I want to try painting the scene first, and then try to write the story ...

Will I get to it today? No idea 😛

#Writing #AmWriting

"The Wild Robot" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623480) is beautifully animated, emotional, and heart-warming.

Sure, the story might not make sense logically, but who wants to talk logic when a story makes you smile, laugh, and want to hug somebody? 😛

#Movies #English #Hollywood

If anybody's looking for a post-holidy light read, I'd like to offer a light sci-fi novel for your consideration 🙂

It's about a man on the run from his wife's wrath, a bunch of bounty hunter clones, and assorted other miscreants:
books2read.com/b/mB1zAM

#Reading #Author #FediBooks #Bookstodon
A book cover with the title "Ho…

Been trying out Windsurf as a VS Code replacement since some folks raved about it.

But I'm getting really tired of Windsurf because it seems to randomly recreate files that I'd deleted/renamed. I don't want no zombie files 😛

#Coding #IDEs #VSCode #Windsurf

Wrote close to 4.5k for the Flutter kids book yesterday but it's become a massive chapter 🙂 Time to move on to a new chapter I guess?

#Writing #Coding #Flutter

Somebody quipped that "Sir Lanka Files" (https://books2read.com/b/mgw00v) is not fiction since it's about an island nation ruled by a guild of thieves 😛

I started the book during the aragalaya. Have a sequel in mind but I will have to wait a couple of months to see where things go?

#Writing #LKA

While the siren-call still lingers to do some coding, I finally managed to get going on the writing today 🙂

Got 2k words written on the third chapter of my book on Flutter development aimed at kids. I wonder if I'd rather be writing fiction, but this is something I enjoy too.

#Writing #Flutter

Is it just me or are the re-works of old movies just crap?

Just tried to watch "Hellboy: The Crooked Man" and "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and they were both so inane and boring that we gave up after a little while on both.

#Movies #English #Hollywood #MovieUpdates

I've been using Bluesky for a couple of days now and it's rather interesting that some accounts that I really liked on Twitter (like QI and Engadget) are either not present on the Fediverse or tried to create a presence but became inactive after a bit.

But on Bluesky, they are very much active.

So why the difference? Is it a lack of interaction? Or the percieved fragmentation due to how Mastodon works?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky

So ... based on feedback about the Flutter book, pivoted from an adult/programmer oriented approach to be more kid/beginner friendly and re-wrote the first two chapters to fit the new approach.

I was set to start on the third chapter when yak-shaving struck again 😛

I started thinking about a BlueSky client because apparently BlueSky engineers are overloaded and can't add the ability to filter out reposts. And I wanted it ....

So that's where I am today — coding. Hopefully, will get back to writing later today?

#Writing

So, I suddenly have the time to write, but have three different books clamoring for attention 😛

1. A Flutter programming book with 2 chapters written
2. A completed novella that needs to be totally re-written
3. A new novel in a new genre that's suddenly very interesting

What to do?

#Writing