AndrewOConnorTech

I had a flashback today of those old Mac vs. PC ads. Do you remember those? Here is one of them.  It got me thinking, is the computer platform war over? There was a spicy time in the aughts and 2010s where you were either a Mac person or a PC person. At least in … Continue reading “Mac vs. PC”

Remote Working/Working from Home sure has a lot of hot takes…so I’m going to add to it. Well, I hope this isn’t a hot take. Just some thoughts and hopefully a fairly balanced take. Early on in my career, I was drawn to the idea of working from home. I realized pretty quickly that my … Continue reading “Remote Working Thoughts”

Fun fact about me, I’m a huge Liverpool fan. A friend in college was a soccer player and fan, and we ended up watching the Premier League most weekend mornings. After watching for a season, I picked a team and it was Liverpool. While I live on the other end of the globe, I feel … Continue reading “Liverpool win!”

The list of games to play is getting pretty long. Recently I have, That’s not even getting to a handful of other games I’ve heard great things about like Expedition 33. Scott Galloway has a great quote. “You can have it all, just not all at once” and my goodness it appears true for games … Continue reading “So Many Games”

Stumbled upon another view-transition thing that I think is very neat. You can change which class you’re targeting with a view transition and apply the effect to just that class. Here is how my site was working before. Basically “fade the whole page in and out”. Which works alright! I didn’t hate it. However, I … Continue reading “Another View-Transition Thing I Like”

Mark Cuban posted some BlueSky posts about AI and I had some thoughts on them.  If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models. Just … Continue reading “Careful LLM Usage”

I’ve been kicking around a redesign for some time. By kicking around I mean “I’d like to do that” but making no other progress besides that. I’ve done a couple of updates over the years. Made a small adjustment with the blog boxes, and added view-transitions but I haven’t done a full on redesign in … Continue reading “Redesign Thoughts”

Just a quick thought blaster on AI. As a note, I’m not super anti-AI. I do believe there is some utility. However I keep noticing it that in this rush to implement it into every product on the face of the planet…it’s just getting in the way. You want to crop a photo in Photoshop? … Continue reading “Sometimes AI Gets in The Way”

There seems to be a trend about blogging so I thought I’d throw in. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I probably started around high school. I was inspired by Major Nelson’s blog and the late Stephen Toulouse’s blog. I found the idea of just having your own space online to be … Continue reading “Blog Questions”

When Meta decided they were going to remove fact checking, and move moderation to Texas, and demand everyone do 20 push-ups before starting their work day, I decided to take Instagram and Facebook off my phone. Is it as good as deleting the apps? No, but I’m not there yet. The utility is still there … Continue reading “Realigning my Phone”