Paul Groth

Paul Groth

Software engineer. Interested in privacy, safety, ethics, security, and psychology in tech.

Articles

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Building Delightful for Obsidian

A whole new scaffolding was built, to convert plain JavaScript into TypeScript with a modular JSX style, because it's more inline with how plugins are commonly built for Obsidian, but mostly because things have changed.

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Where to from here for Delightful?

I'm not interested in growing the user base. Delightful is just a fun thing I made for my team at the time, and I still use it and keep it updated for anyone who wants to use it.

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Promo videos and images for Delighful

A collection of intentionally amateur-looking promo images and videos for Delightful that I've put on LinkedIn over the years. Also on Twitter in the early times, when that was still hanging on by a thread as a worthy product.

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This image was made with AI
The delightful idea

We were having a delightful time on Monday mornings, but a bug in the system took our delights away. As a developer, I fixed the problem by creating my own delights to replace the ones that died.

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I'm not sure if the main asset in this image came from AI or a stock image.
Created by Tay at Anthologie.
AI Leadership Disease

The government is developing a service for people suffering from AI Leadership Disease (AILD). Not to be confused with Chat Bot Syndrome (CBS), or Long-AI. The AILD pandemic has spread to 193 countries, and has infected an estimated 43 percent of the population worldwide. Promising new research from big pharma shows...