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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 17/06/2025

These examples were first try, and the only selection I did on the photos was choosing a couple that I took and didn't mind sharing (no personal stuff). Eerily accurate, especially the downtown skyline shot—100% accurate. And this is with GPT 4.1 Mini!

These are both real-world examples. Neither image had any metadata associated with it. Both captions are accurate.

Input image: Photograph of a classic muscle car on an urban street Generated caption: Yellow 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible parked on a city street with a brick building and chain-link fence in the background.

Input image: Downtown Night View with freeway nearby showing slow shutter headlights
Generated caption: View of downtown Austin, Texas at night from the roof of a condo, showing light trails of vehicles on a busy highway near the Lady Bird Lake and Riverside Drive exits.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 11/06/2025

The way I've been doing it is to have my git repo in `_base` underneath my project name folder. Then each branch I want to work on simultaneously is in a folder of the same name adjacent to _branch. I can alter dependencies, run separate IDEs, or claude code in each folder/branch. Commits too!

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 25/04/2025

Going hard in the Car & Driver comments.

I do appreciate how honest Trump has been about his second administration.

He has said that he wants to return to the Gilded Age. The time of Robber Barons. Black Friday of 1869, when cronies of the President cornered the market and sent the economy into a nosedive. Teapot Dome, when oil execs paid off cabinet officials to get oil leases. Corruption from top-to-bottom by the richest using the US government as they saw fit.

Letting Elon regulate self-driving cars, letting cryptobros abolish the agency the regulates crypto, firing government officials who disagree with the president - at least Trump is honest about what he wants to achieve.

I don't know if Americans skipped the history classes when the Gilded Age was taught.

But I'm pretty sure that Trump doesn't realize that "Gilded Age" was a historic burn penned by Mark Twain - gilded means a cheap metal covered in gold. Shining on the outside; worthless on the inside.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 03/04/2025

The White House has shared the equation used to come up with these tariffs. It was almost certainly AI generated, and it's boneheaded. This is not a serious presidency, but it's seriously eroding the power of our representatives, and our power abroad.

A freeze frame of Donald Trump telling a group of penguins outside the White House. A sign in the background shows "Reciprocal Tariffs" with a table showing "Uninhabited arctic islands" having a 10% rate. A news chyron reads "Trump: Penguins have been very unfair to us on trade".

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 27/03/2025

Sora seems chock full of funny mashup images right now.

Donald Trump as Barbie in a Barbie convertible in the style of the movie poster.

Rick and Morty IRL, but with Elon Musk as Rick and Trump as Morty.

Low quality phone photo of Mark Zuckerberg hiding in a kitchen cabinet with the text "how long has bro been in there"

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 13/03/2025

Love how it's okay when you use MIT licensed software without providing the required notices, but not okay when others do it.

A Github issue where Sindre Sorhus complains about an open source, MIT licensed library using a combined 14 lines of code across two MIT licensed projects of his with the title "Does not adhere to license". All of the lines are wholly insignificant bits of configuration.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 19/02/2025

Home Assistant is pretty cool. Far easier to set up automations than with HomeKit-based tooling. Cool to be able to plot wholly independent data sources against one another too, like this comparing my office occupancy against the CO2 level in the air (yay, I'm not a robot).

Chart showing CO2 ppm amount against room occupancy over a few days. When occupancy shows as true, the CO2 numbers tend to rise.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 04/02/2025

Hey Matt, Two quick things. 1. It wasn’t clear that the video at the top relevant to the article since it’s separated by a subscription form and the title. Play button is a bit camouflaged too. 2. There’s an overflow issue in the related posts box (see screenshot). (On mobile for both)

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 29/01/2025

The latest model from Alibaba, Qwen2.5-Max, fails the same way as Google Gemini Pro on my simple code optimization question. So far only Grok 2 has managed to improve the code, and it nailed it. bsky.app/profile/core...

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 28/01/2025

I hadn't tested Grok 2 because I haven't seen it in benchmarks or heard anything positive about it (and I have a low opinion of its proprietor), but I just gave it a shot and it actually nailed the solution.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 27/01/2025

Google Gemini Pro dropped the explicit handling that ensures the arrays are copied before being reversed, resulting in the inputs being mutated (creates a different bug). DeepSeek Chat V3 has the same solution as ChatGPT o1-mini (use slice + concat but behavior unchanged).

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 27/01/2025

Next, ChatGPT 4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Amazon Nova Pro all arrived at the same solution that changes the behavior by reversing the whole array without reversing the order of the inputs. This introduces a bug and would depend on either a careful PR review or a test suite to catch it.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 27/01/2025

First, the heavy hitters: the reasoning models. ChatGPT o1 and o1-mini rewrote it to use `concat` without changing the inefficiencies. The readability is worse IMO, but fine. DeepSeek R1 used `slice` instead of array expansion, but that's it. None of these are better at all.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 10/01/2025

I was curious how @kagi.com assistant would do at your pelican query, and while it didn't pull a full list with that query verbatim, it did identify East Sand Island and referenced the same PDF you linked.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 13/12/2024

This is a 1 star review on a $4,500 professional camera body all because third-party batteries don't work with it. Canonical example of someone being penny-wise and pound-foolish. 🤦‍♂️

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 09/12/2024

Amazon is working hard to help Chinese sellers of low quality products dupe you into buying using AI. 🤦‍♂️ Source: The Information

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 30/11/2024

A digital agency collaborated with an accessibility consultant to explore the use of LLMs to convert Deque accessibility scan reports (1st image) into language that describes the a11y bugs in terms of their impact (2nd image). The goal: get web professionals to care about the impact.

The screenshot displays a highly technical web accessibility documentation page focused on the proper usage of aria-hidden elements. The content is primarily code-centric, providing multiple HTML code examples demonstrating correct implementations of the aria-hidden attribute.

The page is densely packed with technical information, including:

A rule header specifying the issue: "aria-hidden elements do not contain focusable elements"
Detailed code snippets showing various scenarios for aria-hidden usage
Syntax-highlighted code blocks in a dark theme
Technical terms such as "ARIA roles," "states," and "properties"
While the page indicates a "Serious" user impact, it provides minimal context about how this issue affects actual users. The information about user impact is limited to:

A small "User Impact: Serious" label in the rule header
A simple slider in the "Compliance Data & Impact" section showing the impact as "Serious"
Two icons under "Disabilities Affected" indicating "Blind" and "Low Vision"
The documentation lacks any explanation of how this technical issue translates to real-world difficulties for users with disabilities. It does not describe the practical consequences of misusing aria-hidden or how it might impair a user's ability to navigate or understand a webpage.

Overall, the screenshot emphasizes technical implementation details and code correctness, with little attention given to describing the human impact of the accessibility issue.

In stark contrast to the first screenshot, this image presents a highly user-centered, personal perspective of an accessibility issue. The content focuses on Claudia's lived experience as a user with macular degeneration trying to use the Figma website.

Key differences from the first screenshot:

Human-First Approach:

Features a personal narrative and photo
Includes direct quotes describing the user's experience
Uses metaphors like "exploring a city's layout" to explain technical challenges
Shows emotional impact with terms like "feeling overlooked" and "frustration"
Impact Description:

Details specific barriers and their effects on daily work
Explains how technical issues translate to real-world difficulties
Describes the emotional and professional impact of accessibility barriers
Connects technical problems to practical limitations in collaboration and career development
Technical Context:

Technical information is presented through the lens of user needs
Explains assistive technology usage (screen magnifiers, keyboard navigation) in context
Technical terms are integrated naturally into the user's story
Focuses on the consequences of technical issues rather than implementation details
This screenshot effectively humanizes the accessibility challenge by showing how technical shortcomings directly impact a professional's ability to do their job and participate fully in their field.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 25/10/2024

The rest of the crew! Cricket, Slim, Nala, and Felix. Cricket is our eldest and Nala is the youngest—she turns 1 in a few days. Felix is outdoors—he started coming around years ago here and there, and has since adopted us. We take care of him, but he doesn't want to be inside.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 22/10/2024

My partner and I have 7 indoor kitties plus 1 outdoor neighborhood cat that we've pseudo-adopted. Here are a few recent pics. In order: Gus, Jelli, Grogu, and Noodle.

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 10/08/2023

Today in “it’s fucking hot in Texas,” I left my bike in the bed of my truck with the tonneau cover closed and the inner tube exploded through the tire. 💥🤯

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Corey Ward @coreyward.dev · 06/08/2023

A few photos from the El Rey Court motel in Santa Fe. Ilford HP5+ film in an Olympus Pen FT half-frame 35mm camera.

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