This blog is largely an excuse for me to stretch long-unused writing muscles and to explore ideas I find interesting. There's likely a lot of technology and internet related content, and I'm sure there will be food-related musings as well.
Creativity and fun always win. No one engages with boring content unless forced, and no one champions non-critical technology they don’t enjoy. At Dexter, we learned early and well that the only successful bot is one that delights and surprises its users. Our most successful…
Continue reading...Many people use their Dexter bot tell their story via social media chat. By doing so, they change the basic nature of their account’s chat from person-to-person to person-to machine. This is largely a win for the bot’s owner, as the machine can have far…
Continue reading...To anyone like me who didn't know what prompted the objection to the Pennsylvania vote last night, here's what it seemed to be about. In 2019, PA updated their election code, in part to expand mail-in-voting rights. This is only the second time the new…
Continue reading...It’s no great secret that our current exploration of chatbot technology is merely a short step on the long road of conversational interfaces. From the humble cassette-based voicemail machine to Microsoft’s socially challenged twitterbot Tay, automation of human communication has always been a powerful —…
Continue reading...Ever since switching my primary development machine over to Ubuntu, I’ve developed a nasty habit of firing up Mahjongg every time I have to watch logs or wait for a task to run for any great length of time. Even for an old, jaded gamer,…
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