Author: aoconnor

Remote Working/Working from Home sure has a lot of hot takes…so I’m going to add to it. Well, I hope this isn’t a hot take. Just some thoughts and hopefully a fairly balanced take. Early on in my career, I was drawn to the idea of working from home. I realized pretty quickly that my … Continue reading “Remote Working Thoughts”

Fun fact about me, I’m a huge Liverpool fan. A friend in college was a soccer player and fan, and we ended up watching the Premier League most weekend mornings. After watching for a season, I picked a team and it was Liverpool. While I live on the other end of the globe, I feel … Continue reading “Liverpool win!”

The list of games to play is getting pretty long. Recently I have, That’s not even getting to a handful of other games I’ve heard great things about like Expedition 33. Scott Galloway has a great quote. “You can have it all, just not all at once” and my goodness it appears true for games … Continue reading “So Many Games”

Stumbled upon another view-transition thing that I think is very neat. You can change which class you’re targeting with a view transition and apply the effect to just that class. Here is how my site was working before. Basically “fade the whole page in and out”. Which works alright! I didn’t hate it. However, I … Continue reading “Another View-Transition Thing I Like”

Mark Cuban posted some BlueSky posts about AI and I had some thoughts on them.  If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models. Just … Continue reading “Careful LLM Usage”

I’ve been kicking around a redesign for some time. By kicking around I mean “I’d like to do that” but making no other progress besides that. I’ve done a couple of updates over the years. Made a small adjustment with the blog boxes, and added view-transitions but I haven’t done a full on redesign in … Continue reading “Redesign Thoughts”

Just a quick thought blaster on AI. As a note, I’m not super anti-AI. I do believe there is some utility. However I keep noticing it that in this rush to implement it into every product on the face of the planet…it’s just getting in the way. You want to crop a photo in Photoshop? … Continue reading “Sometimes AI Gets in The Way”

There seems to be a trend about blogging so I thought I’d throw in. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I probably started around high school. I was inspired by Major Nelson’s blog and the late Stephen Toulouse’s blog. I found the idea of just having your own space online to be … Continue reading “Blog Questions”

When Meta decided they were going to remove fact checking, and move moderation to Texas, and demand everyone do 20 push-ups before starting their work day, I decided to take Instagram and Facebook off my phone. Is it as good as deleting the apps? No, but I’m not there yet. The utility is still there … Continue reading “Realigning my Phone”

I recognize this an unpopular opinion, but I’ve always appreciated when things go back to normal post holidays. From a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving until the first full week back post New Year’s, we live in this odd time warp that doesn’t exist the rest of the year. It’s common enough that it has … Continue reading “Back to Normal”