The Guardian: My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart. “In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/04/my-year-with-the-robots-how-joanna-stern-let-ai-into-her-home-work-and-heart-the-guardian/
My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart (The Guardian)

The Guardian: My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart. “In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

CD-ROM Journal: A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS. “XD-submit Vol. 1, as it turns out, is a promotional disc for a Kansai-area bulletin board system (BBS) called XD FirstClass Network. As I started digging into it I assumed this would be sort of a basic information kit, a digital pamphlet or something, but it’s something a lot more exotic: a functioning archive of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/02/a-trip-to-90s-kansai-exploring-the-xd-firstclass-network-bbs-cd-rom-journal/
The worst job interview I ever had

Or how not to do a culture fit interview

A new hidden cost of accessibility I discovered this morning…

Today was supposed to be a day where I could get out and about through our local transit system. I was supposed to catch the cab out to my partner's work and the public bus home. Until we woke up and saw rivulets of rainwater flowing down our little side-street. A veritable downpour. I use forearm crutches (or a rollator) when I go out to shop, to wander, or to just be not at home. I have extensive issues with walking unaided--more than just normal clumsiness, I have been known to walk into […]

https://ceriashwardauthor.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/a-new-hidden-cost-of-accessibility-i-discovered-this-morning/

A new hidden cost of accessibility I discovered this morning…

Today was supposed to be a day where I could get out and about through our local transit system. I was supposed to catch the cab out to my partner’s work and the public bus home. Until we wok…

Ceri Ashward, Author

Raymond Camden: My First AI Skill for My Blog. “When generative AI first exploded on the scene, a lot of people used it to help them write, and frankly, that wasn’t for me. I’m not the best writer, but I damn well know how to write and damn well know my own voice. That being said, I’ve been really interested in how GenAI can help with the process.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/20/raymond-camden-my-first-ai-skill-for-my-blog/
Raymond Camden: My First AI Skill for My Blog

Raymond Camden: My First AI Skill for My Blog. “When generative AI first exploded on the scene, a lot of people used it to help them write, and frankly, that wasn’t for me. I’m no…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Colorado Newsline: I helped write Colorado’s first AI chatbot bill. Here’s what I learned about state action.. “I’ve had a front row seat to the work happening in the states on the front lines of the effort to learn the mistakes of the social media era that are now coming home to roost. And I can tell you with confidence, what’s coalescing isn’t a patchwork of regulations, it’s a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/06/colorado-newsline-i-helped-write-colorados-first-ai-chatbot-bill-heres-what-i-learned-about-state-action/
Colorado Newsline: I helped write Colorado’s first AI chatbot bill. Here’s what I learned about state action.

Colorado Newsline: I helped write Colorado’s first AI chatbot bill. Here’s what I learned about state action.. “I’ve had a front row seat to the work happening in the states on the front line…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Jim Nielsen: I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True. “…vibe coding kinda left me with that feeling I get after indulging in social media, like ‘What just happened? Two hours have passed and what did I even spend my time doing? Just mindlessly chasing novelty?’ It’s fun and easy to mindlessly chasing your whims. But part of me thinks the next best step for this is to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/jim-nielsen-i-tried-vibing-an-rss-reader-and-my-dreams-did-not-come-true/
Jim Nielsen: I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True

Jim Nielsen: I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True. “…vibe coding kinda left me with that feeling I get after indulging in social media, like ‘What just hap…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Web Informant: Moving day. “Back in 1993, I took the radical (at the time) step of requesting a new domain, strom.com. I say request because back then there wasn’t any actual ‘purchase’ – the internet was still relatively new to the general public, and all it took to become master of your domain was a simple email request, which was satisfied within minutes. Let us pause to remember and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/09/web-informant-moving-day/
Web Informant: Moving day

Web Informant: Moving day. “Back in 1993, I took the radical (at the time) step of requesting a new domain, strom.com. I say request because back then there wasn’t any actual ‘purchase&…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Brad Frost: My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald. “We’re in a place where we can think of ideas, articulate them, and then seconds/minutes later be interacting with those ideas, seeing them come to life before our very eyes. It’s truly stunning, and unlocks all sorts of big opportunities and challenges. But setting all of that aside, I’m just so […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/brad-frost-my-8-year-old-vibe-coded-a-video-game-about-playing-music-with-michael-mcdonald/
Brad Frost: My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald

Brad Frost: My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald. “We’re in a place where we can think of ideas, articulate them, and then seconds/minutes later be …

ResearchBuzz: Firehose