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Russia goes to war in the Ukraine. Global payment services to the aggressor state are sanctioned. Old Soviet Union domain names are no longer available for purchase or renewal without supporting a war effort.

The original website couldn’t be sustained, which was unfortunate. The .su domain name was wicked cool and I miss it, but it’s not like I was bothered to set up the website after that so whatever, right?

I’ve been playing with AI lately, and from the outset I want to say I do not and will not use AI for any kind of idea or content generation. I’ve needed a competent editor for years and AI does a really excellent job of that. It doesn’t understand everything, and it reads things the wrong way, but its responses are valuable for gauging things like what parts of my work need refining out of syntactic or narrative squalor, or finding out what colour or musical genre it thinks a scene is. Like a reader, if the LLM doesn’t understand something then maybe there are adjustments I need to make to make something clearer. This is not true in every instance, and an intimate understanding of my own work and technical ability helps safeguard against stupid AI influence.

Well’s Rest is one such case of requiring editorial support. I got it to a point where it was like, honestly, 80-90% complete. It was mostly held together by duct tape and matchsticks, but it worked. Then I burnt out hard for a few years. I’m back now, though, because AI has massively streamlined my editing process and I was able to knock out a fresh update in less than a month. Woo.

I am now working on an audiobook for Well’s Rest. I have more work to do there, some cutting-edge work, but for now enjoy a sample in the widget to the right of this text. Once the audiobook is complete Well’s Rest will be made available for purchase once again and the world will live in balance and harmony.

I also have a new book in the works I am extremely stoked about. Check out the Writing page for more information.

aight take it eez

_{This post was not written with any AI consult.}

— hamish, 10:49 am, 26th May 2025