Hello, my name is Fab! I am a freelance journalist, podcaster and aspiring novelist. On this website, you can find my my thoughts on many different topics ranging from technology to politics and everything in between. There is also some software to discover that I have written.
This website is maintained with a static site generator and includes no dynamic elements. I use no JavaScript, there are no ads and my site sets no cookies in your browser. Tracking is limited to the data collected by my hosting provider.
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Latest Blog Entries
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→ Third affair in NVIDIA s CEO saga, The Sidney Morning Herald
Oh, Jensen… 😔
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Website 4.2: Updated Podcasting Features
I’ve done some work to enable my blog software to natively create the podcast feed for my podcast PUNCHING UPWARDS. While the audio files are still hosted at Substack, I am not reliant on them for creating the feed or serving the show note pages anymore. This allowed me to modernise my podcast feed and bring it up to Podcasting 2.0 standards. This includes a
<podcast:value>tag that links to a new page at Stripe that enables listeners to support the show financially with a one-off amount that can be paid using a wide variety of payment services. This link should work directly from within most modern podcast apps.I also used this the opportunity to improve the episodes listing page and make it a bit nicer to look at and more organised:
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→ How Pete Hegseth Escaped, Slate
Renegade Republican Thomas Massie from Kentucky defies the deep state and asks to impeach Hegseth. Aside from him, all Republicans vote against it. 11 Democrats do not show up. The impeachment gets shot down 211 to 204. That these Democrats did not vote isn’t an accident. The deep state wins. Again.
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Fixed the RSS Feed
In investigating a future upgrade to this site, I noticed that the RSS feed for the blog was broken. In trying to fix it, I stumbled across a number of compounding bugs. After having fixed a handful of them, across two new versions of my blogging software, I think I have the feed generation code working properly now.
If you notice any further bugs, please shoot me an email (see site footer).
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→ Nvidia CEO Huang Admits Affair Amid Rumors of China Spy Ties, Deutsche Welle
Turns out that it doesn’t matter how much awesome AI technology you have … it can’t replace the human touch.
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