ChatGPT 4.0 – more blogging via Artificial Intelligence

[Author’s Note] The following was part of my testing of artificial intelligence (specifically ChatGPT’s) ability to write technical blog posts and also create training materials for developers to better understand secure coding practices. I used ChatGPT 4.0 for this and may go back and refine the prompts I used to get more complex examples, but […]

Fooling around with ChatGPT 4.0

Messing around with ChatGPT 4.0 So, like a lot of people I have been intrigued by ChatGPT and now that the 4.0 version has been released, I’ve signed up for a paid account to see what else I can do with it. I’ve gone down a few rabbit holes with the previous release, messing with […]

Rust, Decay and Beauty

HDR Image of rusting industrial buildings of a former steel mill at Steel Stacks, Bethlehem, PA

About six months ago I moved to Bethlehem, PA from the Pocono Mountains. My new place is on the South Side in the Arts District, a few blocks from Steel Stacks. This is the former home of Bethlehem Steel, which is now a 10 acre facility for arts, events, and of course MusikFest 🤟🏻 When […]

Rebuilding and Redesigning this site

Creative / Writers Block

Sometimes the best way out of a slump is to gut the project and redesigning it from the ground up … So, I’ve been a major creative slump with a lot of things going on in my personal and professional lives – as well as the phase of all of Jupiter’s moons or some shit. […]

Brooklyn Transit Museum

black and white image of a subway car interior at the NYC Transit Museum - Brooklyn, New York City

A few weeks ago I visited the New York City Transit Museum to take photos of the old subway cars, machines and so many amazing vintage signs. It was a beautiful day out and one of my favorite human beings and photographers took me for a tour of the museum. While it may be on […]

Mother’s Day Present for Me

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! So, I don’t get into this publicly often. I lost my mother to cancer when I was just shy of ten years old, and she was 32. Like a lot of children, my mother was my world, and losing her at that young age has made […]

Security and the (in)Human Element

way too many passwords and credentials to manage?

This weekend a friend of mine was caught by yet another Facebook social engineering security event. It was a run of the mill phishing attack, and his credentials were compromised and scores of messages were sent out. The messages were simple “It’s you in this video?” with a fake link to Youtube (see image). This […]

Happy New Year (and Screw You 2020!)

Sunset over the Remarkables, New Zealand

So it is a couple days into 2021, the hangovers and parties are done with. Here we are, a weekend of settling into the New Year has come and gone. The past 12 months have been a whirlwind of a dumpster fire, haven’t they. Well, I am going to try and leave all that behind […]

Astrophotography and the curse of clouds

Astrophotography of the night sky above Francis E. Walter Dam in White Haven, PA

A couple things going on here on the astrophotography front that I thought I would post about… Firstly, I bit the bullet and placed an order for some new gear. I got a Sky-Watcher EQ6 Mount and a Williams Optics Red Cat scope for use with my Sony A7Riv. Both of these are on back-order, […]

NEOWISE – Chasing the Comet

Comet Neowise seen in the upper left of the photo. Taken at Flagstaff Overlook, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Not unlike other amateur astronomers and photographers, I have been outside every night trying to capture images of Neowise (a.k.a. C/2020 F3). Unfortunately, like most I’ve chatted with, I’ve also been fighting and frustrated by clouds and weather interference. If I was the paranoid sort, I would start to think the clouds are purposefully blocking […]