I'm now in the business of making books. I started out as a software developer, but a certain turn of events gave me an opportunity to work on book production. I'm grateful for that. There were plenty of challenges along the way, yet I put real effort into the work.

Google Analytics "Accounts" and "Properties." Why do these two tiers exist? The reasons become clear from the perspectives of organization/site management and the flexibility of permission settings.

I've summarized a few things I hold dear:

• To expand my abilities.
• To form and own my thoughts and feelings.
• To leave behind my own words and sentiments.
• To act in ways that influence children, for better or worse.
• To make sure I get even with those who have tried to undermine me.

I'm putting this in writing here because there may come a time when I can no longer update this site.

A picture of summer festival from some time ago has appeared. I've forgotten where it was taken, and I also don't remember when. Upon closer inspection, I saw tha the file contained a date: July 28, 2023.

While working with various tasks in Emacs, there arise occasions when processing a URL becomes necessary. In this case, I encountered the need to URL-encode some text, so I decided to write Emacs Lisp for this purpose.

With the evolution of AI in recent years, various tools and services have emerged. As part of using these from Emacs, I previously implemented an Emacs extension to generate text using the OpenAI API. I still use it regularly, but it did not support image generation. However, the OpenAI API itself provides models and APIs for image generation. In this article, I will use that to further enrich my GNU Emacs experience.