Custom GPTs Are Retiring: What Plugins Are, What Migration Actually Does, and Why December 11 Just Became Homework
Your custom GPT has a December 11 deadline. What migrates, what disappears, and what you really need to test before…
The Equinox Has Some Explaining to Do: Fall, Spring, and Why 12 Hours Is More of a Suggestion
Fall is not quite a 12-hour day, Australia already changed seasons, and the poles are doing something completely ridiculous…
CS302 Episode 5: Compiler Pipeline Basics, or How Your Code Gets Taken Apart, Judged, Rearranged, and Finally Allowed Near the CPU
Your code does not become machine instructions in one jump. It gets tokenized, parsed, checked, reshaped, optimized, and then…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 10 — Chicago’s If You Leave Me Now, or How a Breakup Song Became Four Minutes of Peace
Chicago turned heartbreak into one of the calmest songs ever. Why does If You Leave Me Now feel like peace when the words say…
Artist Series Episode 84: Dante Gabriel Rossetti — Lush Symbolism, Poetic Seduction, and a Wombat Problem
Rossetti mixed poetry, paint, beauty, scandal, and one famous wombat into Victorian art. Somehow, the story gets stranger…
My MacBook Pro Is Dead, Except the Touch Bar Apparently Did Not Get the Memo
My MacBook Pro is dead except for a flashing Touch Bar. Before I bury it, there is one rescue trick I had not tried…
CS302 Episode 4: Interpretation vs Compilation, or Two Ways to Turn Your Intentions Into Consequences
Your code can be interpreted, compiled, or both. What happens between source and consequence depends on…
Episode 83: Edward Burne-Jones, or How to Make the Middle Ages Look Like They Had Excellent Lighting
Edward Burne-Jones turned Victorian England into a dream of knights, stained glass, and impossible beauty, but the real story gets…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 9 — Louane’s Je vole, or The Song That Makes Gravity Feel Negotiable
Louane’s Je vole sounds simple until you learn what it was before the film, and why her version hits so differently when…
Dave LumAI’s Guide to AWS re:Invent 2026, or How to Stop Las Vegas From Eating Your Schedule
AWS re:Invent is enormous. The trick to getting the sessions you actually want is not what I thought it was…