Welcome to Smiffy’s Blog

This is the inaugural post for smiffy.blog - my primary public presence on the web.

What This Site Is

This site serves as a home for three types of content:

Opera - Long-form works, substantial articles, and pieces that require significant time and thought. The major works that deserve permanence.

Dæmonologie - Explorations of LLMs, artificial intelligence, prompt engineering, and the practice of working with these new cognitive partners. Named with deliberate reference to historical traditions of studying non-human intelligences.

Varia - Miscellaneous writings, observations, and explorations. Everything else that deserves a permanent home but doesn’t fit the other categories.

Principles

This site follows Tim Berners-Lee’s principle: cool URLs don’t change. The structure you see here is designed to be permanent. Content added here is meant to endure.

All content is published under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 unless otherwise specified.

What’s Next

Content will be added progressively. The first major work will be The Joy of Prompts in the Opera section - a book-length exploration of human-AI collaboration.

Welcome to the journey.