Search Engine Obfuscation Reader Mauro left the following comment on a post from the other day: It gives me a great prompt for something I’ve wanted to talk about for a while; Search Engine Optimisation, and avoiding Big Tech nonsense, in the year of 2025 and beyond. Far from being outside the scope of the…
Nietzsche’s Demon Nietzsche, unofficial Patron Saint of the goths, tortured souls and anyone who wants to sound more intellectual and sophisticated than they are, once tackled the philosophical idea of the Eternal Return. In the overdramatic Nietzschean style that he typically employed, Nietzsche referred to what was already an age-old idea as The Catastrophe of…
Build Your Own Robot Minion Army (Pt.1) Also, “AI” Debunked I was talking to a friend the other day. He’s just getting into programming via asking ChatGPT to create bots for him and gradually working out how coding works. In watching his progress and giving him a few tips and ideas to try, it actually…
(Note: This article was originally published to JamieMcSloy.co.uk on February 22nd, 2019. I’m going through an old backup of the site, which has hundreds of posts that aren’t currently uploaded. As I’m working hard on updating the site – and releasing The Vault, letting these old posts be the daily posts for a while. We’re…
(Note: This article was originally published to JamieMcSloy.co.uk on June 27th, 2019. I’m going through an old backup of the site, which has hundreds of posts that aren’t currently uploaded. As I’m working hard on updating the site – and releasing The Vault, letting these old posts be the daily posts for a while. This…
(Note: This article was originally published to JamieMcSloy.co.uk on March 14th, 2020. I’m going through an old backup of the site, which has hundreds of posts that aren’t currently uploaded. As I’m working hard on updating the site, letting these old posts be the daily posts for a while.) Build Your Own Red Book The…
Let Me Go Off The Deep End A Little Here… It’s Friday night and I’ve been working all day, so permit me some weird talk here. Years ago, what seems like a different lifetime, I wrote a University dissertation on a concept that utilised what was then new technology to create something that hadn’t been…
The Key To Practical Survivalism A couple of years ago now, I wrote an article for Hyperion Magazine called Survivalism 2.0. To paraphrase, I wrote that prepping as espoused by the overly dramatic American reality shows was pretty useless and counterproductive, and what you’d call practical survivalism was, until very recently, simply a case of…
An Unconventional Life Tip Over the summer, I decided to clean my room, both in a figurative, Jordan Peterson sense, and in a literal one. Now, I’m far from a minimalist; I have a ton of stuff. Generally speaking, I figure you need a lot of stuff if you’re going to follow your whims, and…
Pro-Tip For Success: Do The Improbable Yesterday we entered 2024, and I made a triumphant return to blogging. I also made some huge claims regarding writing challenges. Here’s the thing; I’ve got a lot of data for doing challenges like these, and I’ll have a lot more by the end of the year. Really though,…