👋🏻  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. But really, you're just here to see pictures of Benson.

Sabbatical time starts now

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.

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!

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!

 

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.)

  1. Hot Water Music
  2. Dispatch
  3. Dramarama
  4. AFI
  5. Led Zeppelin
  6. The Rolling Stones
  7. The Who
  8. Bob Dylan
  9. Dire Straits
  10. 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!