With the heavy rain we have been getting in the western USA this fall, flooding has been a big issue. My Dad's house is in the mountains, and their well is down near the river, but with the heavy rain, a bunch of trees and debris clogged the river and filled the well. The good thing is it is only 20 feet deep and wide enough for a person to go down and dig out, with a few of us, we got the water flowing again. This incident reminds me how much we rely on civil infrastructure to provide the basics of life, and when it fails, it can cause a lot of problems.

When the AI Bro's cry about individuals having RAM in their personal computers.

I did a lot of cleanup in Pulse Scribe, the blogging platform I am building. Much of it involved cleaning up the admin UI and code. Along with a few overlooked items, like /poll is now /op for Opinion Poll. Finally, I added a big change: pasting an image into a post now uploads it without creating orphan images. I'm sure I will think of another change before I go to sleep, but this is most of what I am doing on this project for now.

The free icon set wasn't enough; I wanted more, and I have paid for Font Awesome Pro for years, so I might as well use it on my own website. Now my new blog system supports it, after a lot of problems with CORS cross-domain issues. Another new post type is videos, so I can embed a video and add a description. All that, and I'm at +90% of Super Grok for the week with half a day until reset, and I'm staying up way too late. Oh yeah, I had some Dashboard cleanup that gives more insight into views.

The continuous social media scrolling feed will be found to be one of the most toxic systems ever created: Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Shorts, you name it, is going to be found to have negatively impacted society, and readers of history will wonder how they were ever born.

I know Windows gets all the hate for its update timing and for annoying less-technical users, but when I went to read on my iPad, it said the update would start in 2 seconds. Is that timing or did I wake up the update by walking around with it?

Hold up, this is a new site. Did I just build a new blog with a bot's help? Yeah, I did, because I could and wanted to try it. It took about 2 days to set up on my local server and tinker with advanced features, but it works. This is basically a Tweet but on my site. Longer blog posts will show up soon, and I imported the old content, but most of it is archived because it wasn't really important.