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From Shortcodes to Blocks: A Small WordPress Victory
After years of fighting awkward tag cloud plugins, I built my own. This post walks through the frustrations, the leap into WordPress plugin development, the realities of Gutenberg blocks, and how a filtered tag cloud finally helped surface patterns in my Dreamy Audio podcast. Read More
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Designing a Website That Thinks Like a Library
A behind-the-scenes look at reorganizing my website into a living archive, separating career, hobbies, and civic writing while transforming the blog into Chronicles. It explains how structure, metadata, and AI-assisted search turn years of content into an explorable, evolving personal record. Read More
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Letting JSON Define Who Writes the Story
What began as character prompts became a system of constraints. By binding personas to canon through JSON, Story Forge generates authors who write consistently, ethically, and in-world—less like AI outputs, more like real voices embedded in a living archive. Read More
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The World is Alive
After plenty of trial and error, Story Forge is finally breathing: a space-themed world, futuristic date codes, auto-tagged WordPress posts, and a hardened worker pipeline. Feeding distilled world docs sharpened the canon—and now the next step is fully automating story, image, and publishing. Read More
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Prototyping a Canon-Aware Story System
I’m experimenting with an automated, multi-author blog using the OpenAI API while wiring up WordPress. Personas generate stories and songs with shared memory, structured JSON, and evolving canon—an in-progress exploration of turning world-building notes into a living, distributed narrative system. Read More
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Slugs: A Deep Dive into Web Development
In the realm of web development, slugs serve as the unsung heroes behind the scenes. These unique identifiers, often derived from content titles, play a crucial role in enhancing user experience, improving search engine optimization (SEO), and streamlining content management. By understanding the benefits and best practices associated with slugs, you can elevate your website’s… Read More
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Crossposting Setup
Crossposting Setup After the majority of the day, my postcards now appear on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Ning, GTalk, Tumblr, LinkedIn, AIM, Identi.ca, Brightkite, Plurk, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Blogger, Plaxo Pulse, LiveJournal, Bebo, hi5, Xanga, Friendster, Wordpress, Koornk, Diigo, YouAre, Multiply, Flickr, Read More
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Lots of new things
Lots of new things I found many things happened today, or at least recently. Logging into Second Life, I found that a new windlight viewer was available. I forgot about my postcard floater changes and am limited to 700 characters Read More
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Text 2 Bytes – Round 2
Text 2 Bytes – Round 2 I had posted my text 2 bytes conversion methods to its own page on the LSL Wiki . Strife Onizuka had a look at my original methods and suggested that I used some of Read More
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Odd world in a virtual world
Odd world in a virtual world DrFran Babcock was going on a virtual tour with STA Travel . I came on over to take a look at her first destination. It was a voice-enabled trip where the host was giving Read More