The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider

This is the second of two parts on media creation. You can find the first part over here: Creating media with an uncooperative mind Infinite negatives # In trying to figure out what I should write and talk about, I could spend the rest of my life outlining all the topics I don’t care about. The world is larger than our attention can encompass. Even if I limited myself to going over the topics you might expect somebody like me – based on the public image I’ve chosen to project online – to reasonably cover but won’t, that’d still require me to write more words on subjects I dislike than on the ones I like. This blog has always been a practical venue. I had blogs before – I’ve been writing online in one place or another since the mid- to late nineties – but this was the first place I specifically used to position myself for a chosen career. I’d focused on ebooks for my PhD, given up on them after graduation because they seemed dead in the water in 2006. Then as soon as I settled into a…