Today, I learned about the `::part()` pseudo-element! I'm surprised to see it's baseline widely available, because I've poked around web components before, and I don't remember seeing this. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Another study saying be careful when having AI-enabled workflows. I know AI technology is great to automate, jump start a project, and figure out obscure bugs. But if it isn't used carefully, then it might cause more harm than originally intended. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Why are people so angry with another? I've been learning a bunch recently about moral psychology from Jonathan Haidt, and he sheds light on why people behave adversarial. And yet, being adversarial should not be the way to go. I talk about it in my new post! www.gremlich.me/life-blog/20...

Anthropic came out with a paper that seems to say skills development in an AI enabled work place needs to be done cautiously. Namely, don't let AI do all the work, instead, interact with AI to make sure a conceptual understanding is gained. www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

HTTPS and HTTP swapped places! Originally, I couldn't request a local HTTP resource from HTTPS. Now I can! Read more at my new blog! www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

Merry Christmas! I've always found it fun to assemble clips and sound bites into a small video. I wanted to pick it up again and remind myself of some basic videography. So I made a small and simple video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsfD...

"It’s odd to me to see a push for the experience of a website be oriented around a chatbot, instead of a chat being a complementary feature of the website. Having a chat agent be the main feature of website seems like it’ll lead to too much for a user to do." www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

Don't [...spread] or .split() your strings! Use Intl.Segmenter API. Available in every JS runtime

"Seeing and experiencing joy when another side experience pain is counter productive to the larger game at play because we are all on the same team in the larger context." www.gremlich.me/life-blog/20...

Here's a simple goodie CSS tidbit. I've had a mega-bookmarks website, and I recently remade it using Hugo, because the previous iterations were a bit to unwieldy to manage. To enhance the design of scrolling, I customized the look of the scroll bars using the following snippet!

I would absolutely love to see more exploratory 3-D spaces of famous places like the Eiffel Tower!

This article does make me wonder. To use AI in schools or to not use AI in schools? The prohibitive approach would seem archaic, but at the same time no, because students can practice discipline in school. To practice discipline in school is certainly a valid point. www.ksl.com/article/5137...

The wizard is out of the hat! Today I had the privilege to give a presentation that I've been working on for several months at UtahJS conference. This was my first ever conference talk, and I wanted it to be a good one. I decided to present in a way that I've never seen happen in a presentation!

"When you're hiking, those little steps might not seem like much — but they're exactly what get you to the top." I'm a big time hiker, and a client said this to me when our project started to show fruit. I love this because it's exactly what I know and remember while on hikes.

"We believe that some of the most striking observations in our study [were] where Brain-to-LLM participants showed higher neural connectivity than LLM Group's [...]. This suggests that rewriting an essay using AI tools (after prior AI-free writing) engaged more extensive brain network interactions."

"Participants in the LLM and Search Engine groups were more inclined to focus on the output of the tools they were using because of the added pressure of limited time (20 minutes)."

I love the use of 3D animation technology to show Saint Peter's Basilica! The Vatican partnered with Microsoft to create this explorable 3D space of the site. virtual.basilicasanpietro.va/en

I just finished the book #supercommunicators! What a game-changer. Personally, I feel like I need to strive for better communication and understanding. I can observe in my own life how much I may come off as insensitive, when that isn't my intention. I can improve my own talk to improve connection!

"Be creative and find something that AI can't do, and make an industry out of that" Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't worried about people not having jobs, because industries have been evolving and progressing for a while now. youtube.com/clip/UgkxhWi...

I recently went on a vacation to Europe, and I was fascinated that sunset time was later than in the US. This confused me because I didn't think there would be so much sunlight time. But then I remembered more extreme latitudes experience harsh sunlight differences. So I thought to look it up!

Another random 3D project idea. Show the earth rotating the sun, and demonstrate the ecliptic path of the sun in relation to the earth. The path can be a line across the earth, and the path can change depending on time of year.

Oh wow, this highlights a way to not use AI in software engineering. A study found that an AI slowed a software engineer (around 19%) when the codebase was quirky and large. Software engineers had to correct what AI was suggesting. I'll read the study when I can. ground.news/article/ai-s...

I made an application in 4 hours, and, yes, I used AI technology to assist me. Let me tell the story. www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

I think this is a good warning about not letting AI technology do all the work. Instead, AI technology is a great review tool when the original creative work is done! I believe I feel more engaged in my work when I actually put the time to do my work! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Part of my recent software exploration is WebHID, and I am surprised at what I can do with it! For example, I've been experimenting with connecting a Nintendo Joycon to the web browser. Some of the things related to HID seem beyond my comprehension, but that won't stop me from learning more!

Random 3D project idea... If I know the sun position, and if I know the altitude and GPS position of planes, could I find where the plane's casted shadow would be? This sounds fun, but I don't know when I would do it yet. Thought inspired by shademap.app and seeing the shadows of planes.

I made a very simple fundamental React mistake. I coded a hook to use Howler.js, and a prop into this hook was the source of an audio file. For some reason, the audio file as being loaded many times. I realized that I passed the audio source as a string array into a useEffect hook!

Bug! Three.JS's vertical is Y while 3D printing's vertical is Z. In my project, I thought converting ThreeJS coordinates to 3D printing would be a Y and Z flip. It turns out my GCode would output a mirrored model. The solution was to convert the X value to the negative! This was a funny bug to me.

While finishing up my first freelance project, I saw regular “Mixed Content” warnings because I was accessing a local HTTP server from an HTTPS website. To solve the problem, I ended up using AI to generate a Github Action to deploy to a DigitalOcean Droplet. www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

The labeling systems of 3D spaces across software aren’t uniform. I assumed that the orientation and labeling of all 3D spaces would be the same. Read more in my small blog! www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

I mistakenly thought that AI could finish a simple 3D slicer for me, but I found out that if I didn’t know the intended solution and understand the technology then I couldn’t finish the problem. Read more in my new blog! www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

When I started my current freelance project, I knew close to nothing about 3D animation in the web. Initially, I figured that I could learn Three.js and complete the freelance project. But the catch was I didn't know the depth of things in the 3D world. In essence, I was way over my head.

OffscreenCanvas is a hidden gem of web technology! I show several examples to show how to use offscreen canvas: like converting canvas data to blobs, image bitmaps, offscreen rendering, and transferring canvas context. Read more in my recent blog! www.gremlich.me/software-eng...

I'm learning how to use Three.js in a freelance project. So many things I didn't know what to do! For example, I didn't know that there was such a thing as OffScreenCanvas! I'm using it to process a three dimensional model in a WebWorker since a web worker doesn't support a regular canvas.