https://kevincarlson.codes/Recent content in Home on KevinCarlson.codesHugoen-usSun, 12 Oct 2025 18:24:01 -0400https://kevincarlson.codes/android-linux-terminal/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:24:01 -0400https://kevincarlson.codes/android-linux-terminal/After all these years, I finally have a Debian system in my pocket!https://kevincarlson.codes/i-tried-running-an-ai-content-farm-and-it-was-a-lot/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400https://kevincarlson.codes/i-tried-running-an-ai-content-farm-and-it-was-a-lot/Actually, that's clickbait. Sort of. Let me explain.https://kevincarlson.codes/liminal-space-academy/Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:44:38 -0400https://kevincarlson.codes/liminal-space-academy/Follow the process of updating Tara Gilesbie’s ‘My Immortal’ for the 2020s from concept to publication, using Google Gemini.https://kevincarlson.codes/i-made-my-friends-chatbot-cry/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:24:37 -0400https://kevincarlson.codes/i-made-my-friends-chatbot-cry/Allegedly. The only way it could have happened is if the ostrich was dead…https://kevincarlson.codes/coming-to-terms-with-ai/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400https://kevincarlson.codes/coming-to-terms-with-ai/A collection of posts about the much-hyped rise of Artificial Intelligencehttps://kevincarlson.codes/trying-android-xr-apps-on-meta-quest/Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:50:57 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/trying-android-xr-apps-on-meta-quest/I've tried using Meta's framework for writing apps on Google hardware. Now the time has come to try doing it the other way around.https://kevincarlson.codes/migrating-ghost-to-hugo/Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:00:00 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/migrating-ghost-to-hugo/As far back as my earliest post in 2017, I’ve been using Ghost CMS to power this site. While it has worked well over the last several years, it’s also pretty clear that it’s overkill for what I’m doing here. As of now, I’m using a static site generator called Hugo to cut down on hosting costs, and potentially increase overall site performance.https://kevincarlson.codes/learn-from-my-mistakes-trying-flutter-development-on-chrome-os/Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:45:37 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/learn-from-my-mistakes-trying-flutter-development-on-chrome-os/Schadenfreude. Oxford Languages defines it as pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. Personally, I just hope it’s enough to get you through the next 1,200 words I have to say about the Flutter framework.https://kevincarlson.codes/running-intellij-idea-community-edition-on-chrome-os/Sat, 02 Nov 2019 19:44:40 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/running-intellij-idea-community-edition-on-chrome-os/Linux beta for Chrome OS lets users run virtually any application in the Debian repositories, with the APT package manager. However, some Linux apps aren’t in the repos, and don’t offer a .deb package. Fortunately, it’s relatively straightforward to get these up and running, as well.https://kevincarlson.codes/setting-the-gtk-theme-on-chrome-os/Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:43:50 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/setting-the-gtk-theme-on-chrome-os/A recent Chrome OS update sent some of my Linux apps back to the late 90s. Here’s how to fix that.https://kevincarlson.codes/fountain2epub/Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:43:12 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/fountain2epub/I recently wrote about playing with Node.js development on Chrome OS with Linux beta. Building on that, I decided to create a basic application for converting Fountain screenplays to EPUB 3. While the project is very much a work in progress, I wanted to write a bit about it.https://kevincarlson.codes/node-js-on-chrome-os-with-linux-beta/Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:42:45 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/node-js-on-chrome-os-with-linux-beta/With support for Linux applications rolling out to recent Chromebooks, I decided to try setting up Node.js on a Samsung Chromebook 3. Here’s how it turned out.https://kevincarlson.codes/react-native-on-windows/Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:40:24 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/react-native-on-windows/Facebook’s React Native framework makes it easy to build native Android, and iOS apps with JavaScript. Thanks to a plugin from Microsoft, this framework can also target the Universal Windows Platform. How well does “Learn Once, Write Anywhere” hold up with an app that targets all three?https://kevincarlson.codes/using-material-design-icons-with-qml/Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:12:57 -0500https://kevincarlson.codes/using-material-design-icons-with-qml/When the Qt Project released Qt Quick Controls 2 with a new theme inspired by Google’s Material Design guidelines, I felt like the look wouldn’t be complete without the matching icon set. Here’s how I got the icon theme to work with Qt.