paul
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Using a PyTorch DCGAN for Generating Unique Character and Fashion Silhouettes
As a digital artist I tend to prefer working in vector format and as such I’ve been a keen user of Adobe Illustrator and now Affinity Designer. In the course…
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Reminiscing about the greatest TV show of all time
When I was growing up, I moved between Australia, Poland and the Philippines a bit. I first saw the gate in 1994, a trailer for the original motion picture film,…
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My 2020 Retrospective: A lesson in happiness
2020 was a really good year, for me personally. My consulting business had a slow but promising start to the year, which included my first paid trip as a freelancer…
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Facebook Ad Targetting is Broken
For a few years now, I’ve observed a really curious thing happen when I take on a new website. My Facebook ads start to echo the project I’m working on…
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A History of My PC GPU’s
I have owned a few graphics cards over the past 26 years so I thought it’d be fun to look back at what they looked like, what games I played…
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Looking Phugly, feeling Stylus
The Kettlefish project is something that arose from restructuring the Langenium project from being a Node.js server to a static HTML site built for Github Pages. At that time in…
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SEO, eCommerce and Presence — Oh My!
Since returning to self employment at the start of October, I’ve focused all my attention on finding new passive sources of income that I could scale up. I’ve spent almost…
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Observations from the Eye of the Storm
I’ve finally produced and released the first pages of Issue 04 of Kamigen. It’s been an awesome journey — particularly because the process makes me focus on individual scenes as they unfold…
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Enhancing SysOps with DevOps
Since discovering it a few months ago, Manjaro Linux has been such a delight with it’s ease of use and performance. So good that, against conventional wisdom, I really want…
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Future Jobs: The Rise of Interdisciplinary Thinking
From our humble beginnings as hunter gatherers, it took us thousands of years to create words with enough meaning to define the discrete schools of thought that make up primary…