I played around last night with Midjourney AI until they stopped my free trial. I started playing after someone posted his prompt about a bar on a spaceship. There’s a prompt for me that never gets old, and I can reroll it for hours and not get bored of the Read more
The three most important writing lessons I’ve embraced and actually utilized in my work are the following: Jim Butcher’s livejournal blog. https://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/ An amazing resource, every post is just a lesson in itself to understand storytelling. The irony is that I also bought his mentioned teacher’s book, the Formula something, Read more
Sadly with the pandemic and the rest of the nonsense I didn’t attend our usual speculative fiction workshop at ALEF since 2019. Our writing workshop has been going on for 20 years and the number of inside jokes and rituals has come up to a ridiculous amount. All in all, Read more
I’ve started teaching a series of bitcoin workshops. The goal of this project is to help people learn about bitcoin, that’s all. I plan to open source this workshop, as in I’ll share pretty much every resource I use and the steps I take to teach it. It’s not very Read more
Kate Bush’s recent success with the hit song Running Up That Hill because of Stranger Things is a perfect example of why I say you need to own your copyright. In a brilliant move that ended up being the best decision of her career, she produced, sang and funded the Read more
The biggest problem with home mining is that these ASIC units are very loud, and run very hot. The stock fans are basically all you need to cool the unit but they’re loud, like a big whiny siren. Unless you have a basement or something you’re gonna need some DIY Read more
To all the people who don’t understand why I hate pixel art: Game artists used to work around the old CRT TVs. This technique allowed them to reach more detailed and smooth lines, some effects are lost now that people just play the games on a normal screen most of Read more
Taking the excuse of this shitty person called Roslyn to talk about something. I know that bold takes go viral on social media, especially twitter, but I’ve seen a lot of stuff said about writers. Non-black writers shouldn’t write about black characters, and other idiotic takes. First of all, that’s Read more
Medium sent me a suggested article from Unwriter. He seems to be a very decent developer in the crypto space, and he details out the infighting of the teams in Bitcoin Cash forks. Read it here The resolution of the Bitcoin Cash experiment. It’s a very good article and has Read more
After reading the Bitcoin Standard, the part that shook me the most was the following realisation: Hard money makes wars inefficient, whereas soft money makes them bloody and endless. If anything, the takeaway from every thing Seifedean Ammous says should be the following. I’m using a thread reader app to Read more
