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My name is Mark and I have some thoughts.

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74 from 3 Oct 2022 to 15 Aug 2026
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2026 3

  1. Open WebUI made me build my own LLM harness
  2. Effective use-cases for LLMs
  3. Grand Tetons and Yellowstone 2026

2025 8

  1. Empty Bernzomatic Propane Tank Weighs 14.5oz or 412g (Tare)
  2. Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What”
  3. adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat
  4. I modeled for swap.care, a probiotic deodorant. It works really well!
  5. Featured: 18 Reasons Community Porgrams Coordinator!
  6. docker compose up -> 401 Unauthorized
  7. Can you solve this AI/Math puzzle and get a prize? I couldn’t.
  8. Sewing Notes

2024 45

  1. Cat
  2. Organizing Recipes with ML For Creative Cooking
  3. Ideas for cheap ways to hang art up
  4. Rover Pet Sitting Intake Questions
  5. Second Lever Puzzle in Reconquer.online
  6. Reconquer.online Getting Started and Notes
  7. Reconquer.online Underground Door Lever Puzzle
  8. Cloudflare encounters unknown error 520 when my host changed my IP address
  9. back cracking for me
  10. Switching to Cloudflare because QUIC.cloud kept erroring with 403 Forbidden
  11. Voices of Art – CCSF Art 130A Final Project
  12. Lighter by yung pueblo book cover redesign
  13. Design Analysis in Real Life
  14. 1-point and 2-point perspective
  15. line and box perspective
  16. Color Design Project
  17. Mix To Match online game to mix primary paints to match a target color
  18. Embedded – All the only ones – history of trans identity
  19. Value Tenebroso Collage Drawing 4 elements
  20. Techniques for painting with acrylic
  21. Playing with colors
  22. Destructuring Text
  23. Intuitive Colors
  24. Mother Embroidering by Seurat
  25. Working with Textures
  26. Back to the Roots – Microgreens Review
  27. Review of Imitation Codfish Fillet (素香魚排) by Yang Kee Trading (楊記素食) — 4/5 Fried, 5/5 Steamed
  28. Still Life of Plant, Watering Can, and Candle with Ink
  29. Still Life of Basket and Pine Cone w/ Ink
  30. Problems with the new Money Network card for EDD Unemployment Insurance in California
  31. Still Life of Piano with Charcoal
  32. Still Life of Boxes and Bags
  33. Figure-Ground Reversal with Black, White, and Gray
  34. Still Life of Round Shapes with Charcoal
  35. Still Life of Gudetama Mug with Charcoal
  36. Figure-Ground Reversal with Black and White
  37. Charcoal Values Practice
  38. Blind Contour of my Fridge
  39. Designing with Lines
  40. Small Object Multiples
  41. It’s not the BIKE LANE, it’s the fall of CAPITALISM
  42. Sewing Hacks I Like
  43. Make Lots Of Marks
  44. San Francisco Farmers Market Reviews
  45. Full Weight and Empty Weight of SodaStream CO2 Canisters

2023 13

  1. I found a funny charge on my credit card
  2. How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco by Wired
  3. Planning Dispersed Camping
  4. Purely Elizabeth’s Blueberry Hemp Granola Review – Not Recommended
  5. Questions Answered for CA’s EDD Unemployment Insurance Debit Card
  6. Frozen BBQ Eel / Unagi Comparison
  7. SafeServ’s ServSafe CA Food Handler’s Notes and Experience
  8. My Favorite Fish
  9. The Best Tofu – A Review
  10. Looking For Gig-mates
  11. Searching for an Apartment in SF
  12. Discovering Capitalism
  13. How To Get Past Paywalls

2022 5

  1. Why does my blog HTTP 503 Service Unavailable when I click around using Firefox on iPhone?
  2. Migrating My Blog to a New Host with no Downtime
  3. Resorts are kind of weird…
  4. Mashed Cassava
  5. A Blanket Of Smoke