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I want to tell you a story about what I learned I should be building, and what I think it means for the future of AI development. I'm a developer, and my employer recently encouraged me to start using AI in my daily work.

I have been thinking about my dad this week, more than usual. First, I wondered how much of what remains of someone is an invention of our memories; or what they actually were.

I was visiting a friend who had just moved house. He was chucking stuff out, and happened upon an old Thinkpad. He's stopped using it because the battery was so bad that it wouldn't run without being plugged in. So, he gave it to me.

Some time ago, I created a JS port of Pico-8. I challenged myself to host a workshop (for work people) where I taught non-coders how to make a game. Games are a powerful tool when teaching programming, because of their rapid iteration cycles, fun outcomes, and a general acceptances of newcomers.

I came to find that the topics I want to talk about — the topics I can prattle on about, with no preparation — are topics that are difficult for organisers to justify. I had a sense about this, which I previously mentioned…

Going to conferences, while living in these remote areas, made me feel like I was wanted. I loved the travel, too. The last conference I felt truly wanted at was Laravel EU (days before my youngest child was born). That was 5 years ago.

Read an interesting, albiet brief post about actually doing the thing I claim to be so bad at that I avoid it.

One of the reasons I got a 3D printer was to learn what it would take to run a small 3D printing side-hustle. I had zero ideas about where to focus or what to print; but I saw a similar experiment run by a YouTuber. When my oldest child started asking for 3D prints I knew it was time.