-Fedora Linux Simple Static Web Server Startup

This blog post explains how you can configure a static file web server to start when Fedora Linux or a related distribution boots. That’s Rusty Python, BTW, a rusty steampunk mixture of a crab (associated with Rust, which I use to generate HTML files) and a python (which runs the web server). Update 12.Dec.2025: AnContinue reading “-Fedora Linux Simple Static Web Server Startup”

AI Terminlogy and Concepts Cheat Sheet

This article presents a cheat sheet for terms and concepts related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Much of this may assume LLM as a context. Some is copied directly from Wikipedia or google gemini output. Note that I have no education or expertise regarding AI; this effort definitely turned into a number of rabbit holes. AssumeContinue reading “AI Terminlogy and Concepts Cheat Sheet”

Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Soul?

This article presents my personal perspective on whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems – specifically those with a human language interface such as ChatGPT with underlying LLMs (Large Language Models) – can have souls. Update 14.Dec.2025: I moved this post to here: AITLDR summary by gemini: The following discussion prompted my writing, but the entire topicContinue reading “Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Soul?”

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”

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”

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 – 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”

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”

JW Consciousness Stream – 20 November 2025

This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Thursday, 20 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. This is an interesting theory about what the USA and Europe may face socially and otherwise in the comingContinue reading “JW Consciousness Stream – 20 November 2025”