My Unsolicited Words,
Thoughts, and Ideas
Since AIs are advanced enough to speak for themselves, I discussed the future of work for writers with the now-notorious ChatGPT. Here's what we have to say.
And just like that, everyone knows about paid and free AI writing tools. And they’re afraid.
A brief rationale for ditching my WordPress-powered site and creating a new one using the R package blogdown and hugo.
I’m not gonna lie, building a website, especially on a foreign framework, is time-consuming. Even the smallest of bugs can take hours to localize to a specific line of code or setting. Like most people who aren’t developers, I started with the best-known free option for building blog sites: WordPress. But the more I learned more about SEO and UX, the more agonizing WordPress was to work with. After a lot of hassle, I eventually trashed my old site and created this hugo-powered one.
How I created a dynamic world map of the countries I lived in, visited, and traveled through using the R packages ggplot2 and ggirafe.
I traveled a fair bit over the years, and have always been curious about just how much of the world I managed to cover. Well, what better way to illustrate my travels than to create an interactive map visualization in R.
This is the little corner of the web that’s mine. One where I don’t need a style guide or stakeholder approval to hit publish.