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# Playing with AI

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Learning to coexist with our robot overlords through hands-on experimentation. Both 'wow, this is magic' and 'terrible idea' moments.

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2026-05-30
The redesign series I never finished (and the one I'm doing instead)
If you’re keeping score, you would’ve noticed that we never finished the Building a Website with AI: A Website Redesign Experiment series. It contained four posts that I had high hopes for but never s…
💻 building-things 🌱 figuring-things-out
4 min
2026-05-09
Teaching AI My Weird Little Money System
Like most people, the question I ask myself when I stare at my family’s finances is “Are we ok?” I read some finance self-help books. I’m not a CPA or strategic financial advisor but I generally have…
📱 tech-life
7 min
2025-08-01
AI and the Art of Overcomplicating Simple Things
While the industry debates whether AI will replace designers (most likely not) and developers embrace “vibe coding,” I was learning a different lesson: the problem isn’t whether AI can do the work—it’…
🌱 figuring-things-out 💻 building-things
4 min
2025-06-30
How I Procrastinated my way into my website redesign
Or: How strategic procrastination became the most valuable part of my entire redesign process I was bored with macapinlac.com’s design. Not just mildly dissatisfied — properly bored. You know that fee…
🌱 figuring-things-out
4 min
2025-06-15
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust My AI Overlords
Or: How I gave myself one week to stop being precious about my Linux setup I have a confession: I’m a serial computer rebuilder. Every few months, I get that familiar itch—the one that whispers “you k…
5 min
2025-04-20
I Asked AI to Pick My Next Tablet
I used to have a Kindle and an Audible membership. Then I went full DRM-free rebel, backed up my epubs, and ditched Amazon. I switched to an overpriced Kobo Sage , bought a stylus, and told myself I’d…
4 min