As of today, I am officially on sabbatical for the next 6 weeks. Cheers to you and yours! Time to rest and recharge and whatnot.
👋🏻 Hello!
Thanks for visiting! You'll find a bunch of musings I've been writing around these parts since the early 2000's.
Lately, I've been reviewing a lot of books.
But I also write about code and my experiments using generative AI.
But really, you're just here to see pictures of Benson.
Blog Posts
Angry ChatGPT
Using a customized prompt, you can (for now, at least), get ChatGPT to misbehave a bit.
For example, I turned it into an angry programmer.
Well, it was fun while it lasted
Just got the email from Phony Stark that my API access to Twitter has been suspended. It was a fun dozen years or so.
Time to find Mr. RossBot and JustTriangles a new home.
ArtBot mentioned again in PC World!
ArtBot got another callout in PC World in the article: “The best AI art generators: Bring your wildest dreams to life.”
Though a bit of (fair) criticism at the end of the blurb though:
Why use Artbot? The vast number of AI models, and the variance in style those images produce. Otherwise, generating images via Artbot can be a bit of a crapshoot, and you may expend a great number of kudos simply exploring all the options. Since there’s no real setup besides figuring out the API key, Stable Horde (Artbot) can be worth a try.
Hey, I’ll take it!
5,000,000 images created with ArtBot!
ArtBot keeps chugging along! 5,000,000 images have been created.
Off the grid! (Sort of…)
Just finished up our solar installation. Here’s to reducing the amount of money we give to the fiasco known as PG&E.
I cannot stop staring at this screen. Give me all the photons!
Mr. Proper
My top music of 2022
It’s that time of year again! Thanks to Last.fm, we can compile all the songs and artists that I’ve listened to over the last year. The results? (Same as it ever was, really.)
- Hot Water Music
- Dispatch
- Dramarama
- AFI
- Led Zeppelin
- The Rolling Stones
- The Who
- Bob Dylan
- Dire Straits
- They Might Be Giants
ArtBot written up in PC World!
Hah! This is pretty awesome. My nifty side project, ArtBot, has been written up in PC World as part of a larger article about Stable Horde (the open source backend that powers my web app):
Stable Horde has a few front-end interfaces to use to create AI art, but my preferred choice is ArtBot, which taps into the Horde. (There’s also a separate client interface, with either a Web version or downloadable software.)
Interestingly enough, ArtBot just passed 2,000,000 images generated!
“Are you taking another picture of me?”
