Experiences with AI Tools

After resisting it for a long time, I decided to plunge into using agentic AI tools to help me with various tasks. Here is a synopsis of where we are at in late March, 2026: Task: Update python code written 7 years ago to current libraries Description: one of my initial jobs at work was […]

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Sign for the City of Talent (Oregon) Police (department). On its own, we are amused at "Talent Police."

Highway logo signs

If you’ve traveled on a highway in the US, you’ve no doubt noticed an abundance of helpful blue signs pointing out things interesting to a motorist: food, lodging/camping, fuel, and major attractions.  In my recent odyssey around the western US, I noticed many of these signs and was curious how one gets them, how much they

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Prague Planning Retrospective

Where to start… Unlike Iceland, where I’d be (at the time) moving around the island, I’d planned to stay in Prague. I initially started with the Lonely Planet Pocket Prague for trying to plan days of things to do. However, since I was going to be geocaching-focused, I used the CacheTur.No tool for laying out

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