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Hello from the Burrow

Hello from the Burrow

In 2018, I moved my home-brewed blog to Wordpress and I named it Treefingers, after the Radiohead song. And over the past five years, I've been occasionally posting, keyword being "occasionally". There were times where I did not enjoy posting mainly due to issues with my

Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, OpenJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney

🔄 Update: after posting this on HN, some commenters provided Stable Diffusion and Midjourney results as well which are now included. In the recent Photoshop Betas, users are now able to access seemingly unlimited usage of Adobe's generative AI, powered by Firefly. I have trial credits from Dall-E 2

Deprecating BoardSearch

Deprecating BoardSearch

Over the last 10 months, I've been working on BoardSearch, on and off. With "mild success" I have been chugging along on adding features but recently I've had to consider if working on the current implementation is the right decision? There have been less

Bathing Samson

Nostalgia is a wild and uncontrollable feeling. Today, I was bathing Samson and as I was doing this, I remembered being a little kid and my dad bathing me and my siblings. He would say if we got ready quickly we can go to the bazaar with him. The water

First bread from the sourdough starter

A few days ago, I got sourdough starter from my neighbor. I fed it for 2 days and then on the 3rd day, I added more bread flour and water. I left it at room temperature overnight and earlier today I added some dough and let it rise a bit

Homepage update, June 2023

I've been working on updating my online presence, just yesterday I moved this blog to Ghost and last night I made some changes to my homepage. I removed the recent blog posts section and updated the font. I have been feeling more enamored by fonts other than Inter

Moving from Wordpress to Ghost

Moving from Wordpress to Ghost

This is a decision I have lost sleep over due to my reluctance to accept the fact that just because something is cheaper, does not mean it's a better deal! In a previous post, I talked about how I am happy and unhappy with Wordpress depending on how