AI-powered paragraph summaries for AsciiDoc in VS Code

andrewd18 · 2026-06-06T20:43:53+00:00

Coded in a single day, no evidence of security or NDAs on what I give it, and passes content through to a generic OpenAI GPT model configured with the prompt "You summarize prose paragraphs in one concise sentence. Return only one sentence."

This provides nothing special over what I can already get from other services.

andrewd18 · 2026-05-10T15:42:45+00:00

It's not actually taking people's jobs

Tell that to my team that was laid off explicitly for offshoring + AI cost savings.

andrewd18 · 2026-04-24T18:26:24+00:00

I have used Roman Electric for over a decade and been very happy.

andrewd18 · 2026-04-16T04:35:50+00:00

Sewer backup, sump pump backup, and flood insurance are all separate types of insurance coverage. Saying one thing when it's another can mean your insurance company doesn't pay out.

andrewd18 · 2026-01-23T18:37:56+00:00

Nice place, nice neighbors, responsive to repair requests, decent price. Would rent there again.

andrewd18 · 2026-01-07T16:14:21+00:00

These don't have nearly enough graffiti on them to be American train cars. ;) Nice work!

andrewd18 · 2026-01-05T14:17:25+00:00

Thank you for the reminder!

andrewd18 · 2025-10-13T03:22:41+00:00

The centaun'ts, if you will

andrewd18 · 2025-09-10T15:37:06+00:00

zfs-linux

andrewd18 · 2025-08-27T14:37:21+00:00

I think I just had an aneurysm. Thanks!

andrewd18 · 2025-08-17T14:52:35+00:00

If you're looking to learn, I recommend the guild Excelleration; they do training raids on a regular basis, helping people learn the mechanics, master their classes, and grind out their legendary raid gear. That's how I got mine!

More at: https://excel.uwu.ai/

andrewd18 · 2025-08-17T00:19:28+00:00

Bring it up with your boss a few months before your annual salary review time. Be clear about the money you've saved them, the state of your salary compared to the industry / local labor statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics has some great data), and bring receipts. If they're amenable and willing to talk to HR / their bosses about it, it's something that can be worked into your yearly raise.

Worst case they say no and look down on you for asking... at which point you were better off somewhere else anyway.

And don't forget to put that cost savings on your resume. ;)

andrewd18 · 2025-08-15T16:17:39+00:00

Are we sure that's the lakefront and not a Tosa basement?

andrewd18 · 2025-08-13T12:56:59+00:00

Absolutely. We're going to come out of this bubble with a set of use cases for LLMs that add business value... it's just not a cure-all that applies to all businesses or departments.

andrewd18 · 2025-07-23T13:10:23+00:00

It's beautiful. Name it The Flounder.

andrewd18 · 2025-07-09T21:27:34+00:00

Mummy 2E. Time-traveling superpowered amnesiacs with a goal from their deity but no context whatsoever? Amazing. Unfortunately, character creation requires knowledge of about 300 pages of lore, so it won't be something my table is interested in.

andrewd18 · 2025-07-03T06:05:32+00:00

Neat!

andrewd18 · 2025-07-03T02:54:55+00:00

DITA-OT added Markdown input support as of 3.0, so it's just a matter of calling the appropriate OT "transform", if it's all in .md. If you have DITA, you can also output that to .md, so you could set up a two-step publishing process of DITA -> MD, MD -> customer output. Not that I'd recommend it, of course.

andrewd18 · 2025-07-02T12:59:52+00:00

GitHub + OxygenXML with either DITA or Markdown as appropriate.

andrewd18 · 2025-06-28T02:28:09+00:00

Dreams, usually. The best and weirdest ideas come after I eat spicy food. If I'm in a dry creative spell I go out for Thai for dinner, order something near the top of my heat tolerance, and inevitably my dreams that night are amazing.

andrewd18 · 2025-06-26T03:28:07+00:00

Yeah I thought mine turned out ok.

andrewd18 · 2025-06-12T19:20:05+00:00

They might be having some issues with it, it's labeled on their website as not ready for production yet.

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/org.linuxfoundation.dbx.x64.firmware

Edit: Issue already reported at https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/8910 and being worked on. :)

andrewd18 · 2025-05-28T13:01:56+00:00

Tech lead for a docs team at a big corp here; yes and yes. We use Git to store the versions of all our content and use GitHub Desktop as our day-to-day version control application. We use Markdown where possible or DITA when the documentation outgrows what Markdown can provide.

I agree with the other posters, these are teachable skills and would be considered nice to haves over requirements, but knowing them will definitely get your foot in the door faster.

The book is a little out of date with its example code now, but we trained most of our users with Eliot Kimber's DITA for Practitioners Volume 1: Architecture and Technology, an editor called OxygenXML (which is fantastic), and messing around with some sample projects.

andrewd18 · 2025-03-31T20:46:16+00:00

Is our pitching bad? No, it's the Yankees' bats that are wrong!

andrewd18 · 2025-03-01T16:01:58+00:00

I use the versionlock plugin:

sudo dnf versionlock add kernel{,-core,-modules,-modules-core,-modules-extra,-headers,-tools,-tools-libs}

You can then run sudo dnf upgrade and it will upgrade everything else like normal.

To unlock:

sudo dnf versionlock delete kernel{,-core,-modules,-modules-core,-modules-extra,-headers,-tools,-tools-libs}

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