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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 28/09/2026

InDesign doesn't sort index cross-references. They appear in the order you added them; wrong order, not grouped, often in the wrong position. This free script by Peter Kahrel fixes all of it in one run. 1-min video and download link in description: tur.nz/3u

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Adobe® InDesign®: Fix Unsorted and Ungrouped Index Cross-References Automatically!

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Monika Gause @vektorgarten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is a preference setting in Adobe InDesign that can really sabotage your documents and your workflow. Here's how to turn it off: youtu.be/QU4fWguIx44 #indesign #layout #a11y #design

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AI Feature Messing With Document Integrity in InDesign

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 20/09/2026

InDesign sometimes gets stuck: text that won't reflow, formatting that looks wrong. Built-in fix (Ctrl+Alt+/ or Cmd+Opt+/) doesn't always work. This free script tries a more aggressive recompose approach. tur.nz/3r #InDesign #AdobeInDesign #InDesignScripts #CreativeCodingCollective

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Adobe InDesign: Force Recomposition On Stubborn Text!

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 18/09/2026

After you register for the Creative Developers Summit, make sure to look out for emails from me. If you registered but did not get any emails, check yer spam filters! Free, 23-24 September 2026, London or virtual. More info and registration: tur.nz/2n

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Creative Developers Summit 2026 – Creative Coding Collective

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 18/09/2026

Speaker spotlight: Max Dunn, co-founder of Silicon Publishing, pioneered commercial InDesign Server over two decades ago. His session covers where InDesign Server stands now, including Firefly Services. Thu 24 Sept, 15:30 UK tur.nz/2n #InDesign #CreativeDevelopersSummit

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 15/09/2026

The Creative Coding Collective started as a Slack group of 700 Adobe developers and scripters, collaboration over competition. Creative Developers Summit is that group made real, face to face, in London. It's free. Come meet your people. 23-24 Sept 2026 tur.nz/2n #CreativeDevelopersSummit

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 12/09/2026

Did you know Adobe Photoshop ships with a script that turns any folder of images into a contact sheet of thumbnails, with filenames. It's already installed. Just find and run it! 1 minute demo: tur.nz/3p #Photoshop #AdobePhotoshop #PhotoshopTips #PhotoshopScripts #CreativeCodingCollective

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 12/09/2026

Some file transfers are faster using uncompressed data. The automated deployment process for PluginInstaller uses decompress > rsync > recompress (decompress before transfer, recompress after) and achieves a 10x increase in throughput. Read all about it: tur.nz/3o

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Speeding Up rsync – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 11/09/2026

PluginInstaller has a release candidate 🎉 Try out the free enhanced Scripts Panel for Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop. Install in a few clicks from PluginInstaller, no account needed. plugininstaller.com #Illustrator #Photoshop #CreativeCloud #InDesign #Adobe

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Creative Developer Tools – Enhance Adobe Creative Cloud Apps with Ease

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 06/09/2026

Solo entrepreneur here. When was the last time you talked, face to face, to someone who does what you do? Our roundtable covers isolation and work/life balance. Come to London if you can, it lands differently in person. Join the tribe and thrive. Thu 24 Sept, 10:30 UK tur.nz/2n

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 04/09/2026

One-click installing for Adobe CC scripts, extensions & plug-ins. No more %APPDATA%\Adobe\CEP hunting. PluginInstaller now does 1-click installs of ExtendScripts, UXPScripts & CEP extensions into InDesign. Demo: TextExporter for InDesign, exporting text to RTF (per-story/per-frame). tur.nz/3i

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Adobe InDesign: All text from InDesign doc into a single RTF file. Easy install with PluginInstaller

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 25/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: me, Kris Coppieters. My session covers a bridge I built between Adobe InDesign UXP (UI) and UXPScript (much faster, no UI) so you get both in one plugin. Wed 23 Sept, 13:30 UK tur.nz/2n #UXP #CreativeDevelopersSummit

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 23/08/2026

Adobe InDesign ships with a free script that turns any folder of images into a printable contact sheet. Pick a folder. Adjust number of rows and columns. Done! You get a new document with all images placed, fitted, and labelled. No download. It's already there. 1 minute demo: tur.nz/3g

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Adobe InDesign: Create a Printable Image Contact Sheet From Any Folder — in Seconds!

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 21/08/2026

Speaking at the Creative Developers Summit: James Lockman. James has been around Adobe's publishing and digital media world for a long time. He'll be presenting an honest report on porting a real project from CEP to UXP. More info and registration for this free event: tur.nz/2n

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 18/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Gregor Fellenz runs indesignjs.de, the ExtendScript API reference the InDesign community (and Adobe's own moderators) still point people to. His session covers accessing the InDesign API and where it's heading. Thu 24 Sept, 09:15 UK tur.nz/2n #InDesign #CreativeDevelopersSummit

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 17/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Vlad Vladila, close to a decade at Typefi with Peter Kahrel, now running his own Krommatine Systems. 20 years of ExtendScript, switched to UXPScript last year. His session covers the good, the bad, and the ugly. Wed 23 Sept, 13:00 UK tur.nz/2n #UXP #CreativeDevelopersSummit

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 14/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Justin Taylor built Bolt UXP and Bolt CEP, the boilerplates behind a lot of recent Adobe plugins. At the Summit he covers Bolt UXP's new Webview UI, full HTML/CSS inside a UXP plugin. Thu 24 Sept, 16:00 UK tur.nz/2n

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 13/08/2026

Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Excel? Combine Excel concepts with Illustrator for flexible variable data features, using text frames as cells for input and output? Watch the 1 minute demo: tur.nz/3f

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Adobe Illustrator: Auto-Update Dates, Filenames, and Calculated Values in Any Text Frame!

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 13/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Ariel Walden runs Bookcraft (book design/typesetting) and ID-Extras (InDesign automation add-ons). His session covers Pricing, informed by running both a services and a product business. Wed 23 Sept, 11:30 UK tur.nz/2n

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 10/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, 25+ years in software engineering. Most AI agents break outside English. His session covers an architecture that holds up across locales. Wed 23 Sept, 10:30 UK tur.nz/2n #AIAgents #CreativeDevelopersSummit

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 08/08/2026

Adobe InDesign's index sorting ignores commas. Everything gets jumbled together in the wrong order. The fix is a sort-order field that InDesign supports but is hard to use. This free script fixes it, zero manual work. Spend 2 minutes watching this video, get hours of your time back: tur.nz/3c

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Adobe InDesign: Fix Broken Index Sorting for Name Lists — Automatically!

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 07/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Peter Kahrel, linguist turned InDesign scripter since 2003, decade+ as script engineer for Typefi. His free script repository is a goldmine for long-document InDesign work. Register for #CreativeDevelopersSummit today, it's free! Wed 23 Sept, 09:45 UK tur.nz/2n #InDesign

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 05/08/2026

Speaker spotlight: Jaroslav Bereza built a VS Code extension that debugs UXP plugins directly, breakpoints and all. At the Creative Developers Summit he explains how it works under the hood. Wed 23 Sept, 09:15 UK tur.nz/2n

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 05/08/2026

Home-grown markup: *bold*, <b>bold</b>, !bold! — whatever someone invented that day. Getting it into InDesign as character styles usually means manual work or GREP gymnastics. Declare your markers in a config frame. Run Style-O-Matic (free). Markup gone, styles applied. 1-min Demo: tur.nz/39

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Adobe InDesign: Convert Any Homegrown Markup Convention Into Applied Character Styles

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 28/07/2026

17th Creative Developers Summit — 23-24 Sept 2026, Adobe Shoreditch London + virtual via Teams. Free for anyone scripting/automating Adobe Creative Cloud. Meet fellow ExtendScript/UXP devs, bar meetup on the 23rd. Register: admin@creativecodingcollective.org tur.nz/2n #UXP #Automation

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 25/07/2026

After editing an index in Adobe InDesign, your page numbers become a mess. Long runs of consecutive numbers that should be ranges. Duplicate topics with scattered refs. Unsorted numbers after making edits. The free script by Peter Kahrel resolves this pain. Got 90 seconds? Watch: tur.nz/36

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Adobe InDesign: Clean Up and Range Your Index Page Numbers Automatically!

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 08/07/2026

SuperGroups for Adobe InDesign & Adobe Illustrator can group elements while retaining layers. A SuperGroup can flip between two states: either a standard group (copy-paste, move) or a constellation of elements scattered over multiple layers (output). Free script: tur.nz/2v 1-min demo: tur.nz/2w

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SuperGroups Can Span Layers (Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator) – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 06/07/2026

In this 1 minute video, I demo a pair of free InDesign scripts that let you unpack an object library into an editable InDesign document, edit everything freely, and repack it back into a .indl library file. tur.nz/2p

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Adobe InDesign: Edit InDesign Libraries Like You Edit Documents!

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 18/04/2026

Illustrator: no master pages. So when a logo needs to sit in the same spot on 30 artboards, you place it manually. This free script fixes that. One artboard acts as the master. Watch the 1 minute no-fluff video tur.nz/23 #Illustrator #AdobeIllustrator #IllustratorTips #CreativeCodingCollective

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Adobe Illustrator: How To Use Master Page Features

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 05/11/2025

The next Creative Coding Collective (CCC) online meetup is around the corner. Make sure to mark your calendar! See y'all soon! Details: tur.nz/s The CCC is a volunteer-run community of creative developers, technologists, and industry specialists. More info, and how to join: tur.nz/e

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Meeting 7 November 2025 – Creative Coding Collective

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 09/05/2025

After 20+ years automating Adobe software, I’ve seen it all, and learned a lot along the way. Join me in Phoenix, AZ on Wednesday, June 4 at the Creative Developers Summit for a hands-on workshop. Stop wasting weeks on trial and error. thoughtbridg.es/creative-dev...

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Creative Developers Summit, June 4-5 Phoenix, AZ. | Thoughtbridges

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 05/05/2025

Don’t Obfuscate (Unless You Mean To). This is post #8 in my series "Coding Without The Jargon": Obfuscation is often not intentional. It’s just what happens when you write fast. What’s the worst case of accidental obfuscation you’ve had to untangle? coppieters.nz?p=1649

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Don’t Obfuscate – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 28/04/2025

For me, throwing an exception is a last resort. In the latest post of my Coding Without the Jargon series, I explain why I treat exceptions as a defense mechanism, rather than as a data-passing mechanism. coppieters.nz?p=1602

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Exceptional! – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 24/04/2025

Let your code be a helpful snitch. That one weird NULL, that file that should exist, the thing that 'this will never happen'. If your code is full of tattle-tales, reporting anything out of the ordinary, you'll save on debugging time. coppieters.nz?p=1594

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Avoid Silent Failures – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 22/04/2025

Developer Roundtable at the Creative Developers Summit, Phoenix, June 4-5 2025. Software developers and consultants! As a one-man band or small software development company, how do you survive in today's chaotic business environment? creativeproweek.com/phoenix-2025...

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Creative Developers Summit | June 4–5

The Creative Developers Summit is the premier annual event for anyone who creates or implements custom software solutions for creative professionals. The Summit is the place to meet, share, and learn ...

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 22/04/2025

When you join an existing codebase, the first impulse is often: “Ugh. This needs fixing.” In the third post of my Coding Without the Jargon series, I talk about a simple but powerful principle: respect the style, even if it’s not your own. coppieters.nz?p=1562

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Contributing To An Existing Project? Understand It Before You Fix it. – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 22/04/2025

Coding Conventions: the source of many holy wars Tabs vs. spaces. Braces on their own line. Snake case, camel case, screaming caps. Friendships have ended over less. My take: 'any' is better than 'none'. coppieters.nz?p=1573

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Any Coding Convention, But Pick One. – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 22/04/2025

Bug report from a user. Remote machine. No debugger. Just a cryptic screenshot and 'it does not work' in all caps. In the fifth installment of my 'Coding Without the Jargon' series, I share why I never write code, not even temporary code, without a logging infrastructure. coppieters.nz?p=1585

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Log Early, Log Often – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 01/04/2025

Coding Without the Jargon. Write Code Even a 12-Year-Old Can Read. If your code tells a clear story, it’s easier to debug, maintain, and hand off, whether to a teammate or your future self 18 months from now. Read the full post here: coppieters.nz?p=1548

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Write Code That Is Human-First – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 24/03/2025

Coding Without the Jargon – Post 1: Small Wins in Messy Code In the first post of my new blog series, I explain how I approach gradual improvements. We're not talking about grand refactorings. It's all about taking tiny steps that add up to big improvements. coppieters.nz?p=1533

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Leave The Code A Little Cleaner Than You Found It – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 19/03/2025

After years of fixing other people's code, I've found that best practices rarely appear in the wild. Not that they're bad, but teams lack time for complex solutions. I've developed pragmatic coding principles that work across languages allowing gradual improvement: coppieters.nz?p=1496

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Coding Without the Jargon – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 09/03/2025

Creative Cloud Desktop sez: You Don’t Have Access To Manage Apps I got tired of the fiddly process of manipulating serviceconfig.xml when for no apparent reason, I lose access. I wrote two scripts (Mac/Windows) to automate the 'fix' for the issue. More info here: coppieters.nz?p=1477

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Creative Cloud Desktop sez: You Don’t Have Access To Manage Apps – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 28/02/2025

Diving Into Data Science - Step 1. I'll be documenting my foray into data science on my blog: coppieters.nz?p=1448

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Diving Into Data Science – Step 1. – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 26/02/2025

Running DeepSeek-r1 locally, using a web-based UI is really easy on a Mac with sufficient memory. coppieters.nz?p=1445 I now use this instead of reaching for ChatGPT or Claude: it's free, and any conversations I have remain private.

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Running LLM Locally – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 19/02/2025

Stripping comments from JSONC data so it can be processed with json_decode() in PHP, or Trying to get a chatbot to come up with good code often takes longer than writing the code properly from the get-go... coppieters.nz?p=1429

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JSONC, State Machines, LLM – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 13/02/2025

I am on the fence - should I put effort into learning how to develop third-party add-ons for Express? Read more here: coppieters.nz?p=1407

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Developing For Adobe Express? – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 10/02/2025

When I use any of a number of different AI-based image generators, and all of them seem to have a tendency to produce 'yellow-tinged' images. I've got a theory as to why that is! coppieters.nz?p=1403

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The Golden Hour – Coppieters, New Zealand

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kris.coppieters.nz @kris.coppieters.nz · 05/02/2025

Notice the man behind the curtain. To get a better 'gut feel' of what an LLM chatbot really is, and avoid over-antropomorphisation, I ran some interesting experiments with a small context window... coppieters.nz?p=1384

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Running a chatbot with a small context window – Coppieters, New Zealand

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