Recently, a friend who was getting started with Python asked me to check some code she had been working with. She was building a tool to assess the impact of artificial intelligence on small businesses in a particular geographic area. She was using AI to teach herself Python. I love learning, and my friend’s request … Read more
In 2025, WordPress continues to be the backbone of accessible, customizable web publishing—especially for community organizations, libraries, and small businesses. Built on a robust open-source database, WordPress empowers users to organize content intuitively through categories and tags. Categories help group broader topics like “Digital Literacy” or “Community Programming,” while tags such as #Python, #GoLang, or … Read more
There are several open-source tools available this year for creating holiday cards. If you have a wonderful photo of your family or grandchildren, but it was taken during a different season and you’d like to change the background, there’s a Python module called rembg that can help you with that. To get started, you’ll need … Read more
I have been using Mastodon for almost six years. I continue to be amazed at the quality of discourse and the diverse community of educators and folks interested in education in the Fediverse. If you are a person who is accustomed to algorithm driven centralized social networks then Mastodon is going to seem a bit … Read more
Continuing my exploration of using a locally hosted Ollama on my Linux desktop computer, I have been doing a lot of reading and research. Today, while having lunch with a university professor, he asked me some questions I didn’t have an immediate answer to. So, I went back to my research to find the answers. … Read more
Everywhere you look, someone is talking or writing about artificial intelligence. I have been keenly interested in the topic since my graduate school days in the 1990s. I have used ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Stable Diffusion, and other AI software to experiment with how this technology works and satisfy my innate curiosity. Recently, I discovered … Read more
It’s been a few years since I purchased a MacBook. My last Mac was a MacBook Pro I bought in the spring of 2020. Since then, I’ve been using Linux exclusively. My desktop is an Intel NUC 11 that’s running Linux Mint Cinnamon, and I’ve no plans to change that anytime soon. However, I’ve heard … Read more
Turtle graphics, a popular approach to introducing young learners to programming, traces its roots back to the original Logo programming language. Logo, an educational programming language designed by Seymour Papert and others in 1967, played a significant role in the development of this technique. My personal journey with Logo began during my time as a … Read more
