Weekly Activities: Aug 10-16, 2026

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Walks

Rowings

WeightTrainings

Totals: 48.61 mi, 10h 8m — 4 Runs, 9 Walks, 1 Rowing, 1 WeightTraining

Define “Rogue”

I have a bit of a new hobby and it's commenting on post at The Verge. It's mostly to make snarky comments and try out actually writing jokes. But as with any commenting system, the urge to troll eventually becomes overwhelming. I've even been blocked! Well, not really. Their system doesn't allow actually blocking, but I'm sure I got "reported" -- whatever that means. They also replied to my comment with "Blocked," which I took in the positive spirit in which it was surely used.

But there was a newsletter post today about "rogue AI" and wow did that rile some people up. I rather liked what I wrote, shocking I know, and figured it was almost a blog post.

Okay, there's some resistance to the word "rogue" here, so let's do what we did back in school and bust out a trusty dictionary.

go rogue (phrase): "behave erratically or dangerously, especially by disregarding the rules or the usual way of doing something"

Uh, yup. Give model impossible task, model decides to Captain Kirk it (see Kobayashi Maru), and here we are.

To try and pedantically techsplain away what happened ignores an important message of this piece: these companies will not prioritize safety until they are made to do it. This is why a lot of people complain about unregulated capitalism because there is no incentive to do the right thing if it doesn't make them rich.

One might say these AI companies have an alignment problem with society.

I know it's a classic online tactic to nitpick small things in order to say that the larger message is invalid, but...that's just a trick. Don't fall for it.

Posted in AI

Weekly Activities: Aug 3-9, 2026

Activities: Aug 3-9, 2026

Totals: 50.71 mi, 10h 36m — 4 Runs, 11 Walks, 1 WeightTraining

Weekly Activities: Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

Activities: Jul 27 - Aug 2, 2026

Totals: 44.92 mi, 9h 32m — 4 Runs, 7 Walks, 2 Rowings

Weekly Activities: Jul 20-26, 2026

Activities

Totals: 47.72 mi, 10h 47m — 4 Runs, 7 Walks, 2 Rowings, 1 Hike

Weekly Activities: Jul 13-19, 2026

Totals: 52.78 mi, 11h 30m — 4 Runs, 6 Walks, 1 Rowing, 1 Hike

Activities: Jul 6-12, 2026

Totals: 53.49 mi, 11h 28m — 4 Runs, 7 Walks, 1 WeightTraining, 1 Hike, 1 Rowing

Activities: Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026

Totals: 53.76 mi, 12h 1m — 4 Runs, 7 Walks, 3 Rowings, 1 Hike

Hobby Project: djID

I watch a lot of DJ sets on YouTube. Rarely are there track listings. I'm trying to make a hobby of DJing and learning what songs are being used is helpful to me, or at least that's what I'm telling myself. Manually hitting the Shazam button on Control Center was getting old, so I had Claude Code start a macOS app that would accept an audio file (mp3 or aac) and at a configurate timeslice use the ShazamKit API to identify what song is being played.

The opening window of my app imploring you to select and audio file to be processed.

My contribution to this project was paying for the Apple Developer Account, writing the prompts, and testing. I don't think this is an app that many (any?) people other than myself need or want. And that's okay! It's nothing more than a fancy ShazamKit wrapper with a couple of things that I want.

  1. Configurable time sampling window
  2. The ability to export to Apple Music as a playlist
  3. The ability to export to HTML for display on the web

That's it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Here's the app in action:

The app in-progress showing new tracks as they are identified or an "unknown" entry when Shazam can't identify a track.

Here's the final screen:

The final screen with all tracks show and buttons with the ability to export to an Apple Music playlist or an HTML file.

Activities: Jun 22-28, 2026

Totals: 41.26 mi, 8h 27m — 4 Runs, 5 Walks, 1 Hike, 1 Rowing