Author Archives: John West

Tech Tools That I Use

This short blog post simply lists some technical tools that I use and generally recommend. You can see more posts about these by searching this blog, for example: See also: Tool Pages I use these tools relatively often. Sites That I Access Directly I often access these sites directly. Excluding finance sites, most other sitesContinue reading “Tech Tools That I Use”

JW Consciousness Stream – 28 November 2025

This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Friday, 28 November, 2025. This is basically like a journal entry that I work on throughout the day and then don’t go back to correct errors. Some topics in this post: YouTube suggested this uplifting video that I found worthwhile: I can relate to muchContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 28 November 2025”

You Are Being Programmed – Curate Your Feed and Control Your AI Use

Just as Large Language Models (LLMs such as ChatGPT) are trained on input data, your mind is trained on the content that you process. There is an old idiom in computer programming: garbage in, garbage out. What this means is that if you feed bad data into a system, you can only get bad dataContinue reading “You Are Being Programmed – Curate Your Feed and Control Your AI Use”

JW Consciousness Stream – 27 November 2025

This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Thursday, 27 November, 2025. This is basically like a journal entry that I work on throughout the day and then don’t go back to correct errors. Some topics in this post: Some songs: I haven’t been feeling well or very productive since Sunday. It couldContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 27 November 2025”

My Politics

This article summarizes some of my political perspectives, especially in relation to the current Trump administration in the USA. I’ve never been accused of being a “con” (conservative, Republican) or “MAGA”. Sometimes people suggest that I am a “lib” (liberal, Democrat), which is not exactly true. I wrote this as a response to such thought-stoppingContinue reading “My Politics”

LinkedIn Control Panel

This article introduces a LinkedIn Control Panel. It’s not exactly a control panel, and it doesn’t cover all of LinkedIn. It’s mostly intended for working with posts that have a large number of articles. This LinkedIn Control Panel exposes a UI for use on LinkedIn post pages using desktop browsers, specifically google’s chrome browser. IContinue reading “LinkedIn Control Panel”

Format Text in LinkedIn Posts and Comments

This blog post describes a solution that you can use to format text in posts and comments that you submit to LinkedIn. Update 28.Nov.2025: See also: Actually, you can’t format text. What you can do is replace characters with other characters that appear formatted. More details (including some caveats) and an online formatter here: I’veContinue reading “Format Text in LinkedIn Posts and Comments”

JW Consciousness Stream – 26 November 2025

This short entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Wednesday, 26 November, 2025. This is basically like a journal entry that I work on throughout the day and then don’t go back to correct errors. Some topics in this post: Yesterday I went to I went to a Russian restaurant and read andContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 26 November 2025”

VSCodium Keyboard Shortcuts

This blog post lists some keyboard shortcuts that I would like to memorize for frequent use in VSCodium. These shortcuts likely work in Visual Studio Code and possibly other Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) as well. This post also provides links to resources with additional relevant information. VSCodium Keyboard Shortcuts Sequence Function CTRL+k,v Visualize markdown CTRL+fContinue reading “VSCodium Keyboard Shortcuts”

JW Consciousness Stream – 25 November 2025

This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Tuesday, 25 November, 2025. This is basically like a journal entry that I work on throughout the day and then don’t go back to correct errors. Some topics in this post: I published this: Lest we forget: It’s 8:15. I published this: It’s nice toContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 25 November 2025”