This was my first year using AI coding tools. I’m often asked what I use AI coding for outside of work. Here I document what I’ve built with AI....

Sun 28 December 2025

WHEREAS, the em-dash (—) has long served as the elegant scaffolding of the English sentence, providing the necessary breadth for parenthetical...

Fri 26 December 2025

Simon Willison has a light-hearted benchmark for evaluating LLMs. He asks them to draw a Pelican riding on a bicycle in SVG format. I decided to...

Sat 25 October 2025

The thing one misses most when switching to static site generators is comments. You can always use a 3rd party service like Disqus, but then it...

Fri 10 January 2025

A few years ago I introduced opel — an Emacs package that allows one to write all their Pelican posts in one Org file. It was inspired by ox-hugo....

Wed 14 December 2022

Pelican is a static site generator. Out of the box it supports two formats: Restructured Text and Markdown. There exist plugins to support the Org...

Thu 19 December 2019

It has been a long time since I was a college student. In those days I took all my notes in the classroom with a notebook. One notebook for each...

Sun 06 December 2015