This blog post provides perspectives on why I blog. The image for this post shows decreasing traffic to my blog over time. Maybe my older content (mostly about C#, .NET, headless CMS, and enterprise orchestration engines) is less relevent now than it was even a year ago, but I think that another factor may beContinue reading “Why Do I Blog?”
Author Archives: John West
Submit Your LinkedIn Feature Suggestions!
After decades of frustration with the LinkedIn website, I have a developer working on something like a control panel. NOW would be a great time for anyone to suggest potential features. Some existing features include: Implementation will be a bookmarklet, which functions like a bookmark, but instead of loading a page, it will run someContinue reading “Submit Your LinkedIn Feature Suggestions!”
JW Consciousness Stream – 24 November 2025
This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Monday, 24 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: Well, I actually started this Friday evening, but don’t expect to have time toContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 24 November 2025”
Starting Out with Superfile
This blog post provides information about Superfile, a file system browser that runs in the Linux console. There’s also apparently a Windows install process. I’ll try to update this post periodically with shortcuts that I find most useful. This year, I have been making the transition from Windows to Linux this year, and I assumeContinue reading “Starting Out with Superfile”
My Financial Advice
This article post provides some of my perspectives on investment and finances in general, primarily directed towards my children, and especially those that will remain living in the USA. I have not reviewed this and I know that it’s disorganized and incomplete. There are many things that I want to write about and I justContinue reading “My Financial Advice”
Discard Life?
Apparently after calculating that I’m not depressed enough, YouTube placed the following video in my feed: I suggest that you listen to that video before reading this post, which is largely a reaction. Because there are times when I can relate, and I know others that seem to be making this transition, I listened toContinue reading “Discard Life?”
What Social Media Do I Use, How Do I Use It, and Why?
This blog post is my attempt to explain what social media channels I use, how I use them, and why I use them. One major objective of my use is to find things to think and write about. Why Do I Read Social Media? Why Do I Post to Social Media? What Social Media ChannelsContinue reading “What Social Media Do I Use, How Do I Use It, and Why?”
Use AI to Analyze All Comments in a LinkedIn Thread
This blog post describes how you can have an LLM analyze comments on a long LinkedIn thread. Here’s a video showing the automated process in action until it crashes at about 4,000 comments loaded: Update 28.Nov.2025: See also: The first step is to get LinkedIn to load all of the comments. This requires a fewContinue reading “Use AI to Analyze All Comments in a LinkedIn Thread”
Reduce Your AI Exposure
This may be a lost cause, but this post provides some guidance for disabling AI features in certain products. This instructions may not be complete and the vendors are likely to add additional features and obfuscate them. Note also that anyone who accesses your data, such as a forwarded email or shared document, may notContinue reading “Reduce Your AI Exposure”
JW Consciousness Stream – 21 November 2025
This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Friday, 21 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. Today’s edition touches on: It seems that YouTube is getting better at surfacing content that both interests and potentiallyContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 21 November 2025”
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