Ryan Spletzer

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo's 18th-century painting of the giant wooden Trojan horse being hauled through a breach in the walls of Troy by a straining crowd, with citizens celebrating around it beneath a cloudy sky. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Domenico_Tiepolo_-_The_Procession_of_the_Trojan_Horse_in_Troy_-_WGA22382.jpg
A colorful 19th-century chromolithograph of a lion tamer standing calmly inside a circus cage, surrounded by two lions, a lioness, and two tigers posed on pedestals around him. Gibson & Co., publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_tamer_(LOC_pga.03749).jpg
A colorized 1920s postcard photograph of an automobile perched on a narrow ridge road in Los Angeles County, with a wooden guardrail along the precipitous edge; a caption at the bottom reads "Guard rails sometimes save careless drivers." Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Car_accident_in_the_1920s_(38083620606).png
Delegates seated at a long table in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, signing the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, with tall arched mirrors and ornate chandeliers reflected behind them. William Orpen, The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, 1919. Imperial War Museum, London. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
A pastoral landscape with a farmer plowing in the foreground, a shepherd gazing upward, and ships in a harbor, while in the lower right corner a pair of legs disappears into the sea — the fall of Icarus, unnoticed by all. "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1560s. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait of William Stanley Jevons, via University of Manchester Libraries, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
An impressionist oil painting of a woman in a black hat and dark dress reading a newspaper in a sunlit garden. Woman Reading — Édouard Manet, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
A crowd of ghostly, pale-faced figures in dark clothing and top hats walk along a pier against a turbulent, swirling sky of deep blues and oranges, their hollow expressions conveying collective dread and unease. Art from Edvard Munch, Anxiety, 1894. Munch Museum, Oslo. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
An oil painting of a lone farmer seen from behind, harvesting golden wheat with a scythe in a sunlit field, with his discarded Union Army jacket and canteen visible in the lower right corner. The painting is Winslow Homer, &quot;The Veteran in a New Field,&quot; 1865. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.
A hand-colored print of a gentleman in a top hat and tailcoat riding an early two-wheeled hobbyhorse, with another rider visible in the distance.
Close-up of a marble angel statue by Michelangelo Buonarroti with a calm, expressionless face and curly hair, warmly lit, with one textured wing visible behind its shoulder.
A landscape, movie-poster-style illustration inspired by 1980s adventure films. On the left, a rocky cave opening frames a bright moon as dozens of bats fly outward into the night sky. On the right, inside a dusty wooden closet, a grinning pirate skeleton wearing a hat and medallion holds a cutlass beside scattered gold coins and an old lantern. Bold retro lettering across the top reads "Fear, Paranoia, and Vibe Risk Management."
Minimalist infographic comparing a website before and after a refactor. Left side ("Before") shows a generic webpage labeled Bootstrap 3.2.0 with a large "143 KB CSS" file. Right side ("After") shows an HTML5-based page labeled WCAG 2.0 AA with a much smaller "10.7 KB CSS" file and checklist icons indicating accessibility improvements. Title at top reads: "One Day, Nine Phases, 93% Less CSS."
Ronald McDonald and the Burger King sit side by side at a shared desk in a modern office, each wearing headphones and smiling while coding on laptops. Ronald, in his yellow-and-red striped outfit and clown makeup, works on a laptop labeled “Claude Code,” while the Burger King, dressed in a crown and fur-trimmed robe, uses a laptop labeled “GitHub Copilot.” Code is visible on both screens, with coffee cups and monitors in the background, creating a playful contrast between fast-food mascots and serious software development.
Dark-mode chat interface showing a message that reads, “I installed LazyVim for Neovim but I can't remember how.” Beneath it, a reply says, “lol, extremely relatable.” followed by a smiling emoji.
A digital illustration of a cluttered living room with piles of papers, books on crowded shelves, and tools scattered on the floor. Two friendly, futuristic AI robots stand just inside the open front door holding suitcases, looking into the disorganized space as sunlight streams in from outside, suggesting AI arriving as a guest in an untidy home.
A cropped version of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. On the right, God reaches out from a cluster of figures, labeled "AI" in bold white Impact-style text. On the left, Adam reclines on the ground, reaching back, labeled "THE REST OF TECHNOLOGY." The two hands nearly touch, parodying the original scene to suggest AI as a dominant, godlike force eclipsing all other technology.
A wooden marionette with a long nose sits at a developer’s desk, strings tied to floating "PROMPT" and code icons, facing a monitor where a flow diagram ends at a glowing "DEPLOY" button; a loose cable and a shelf labeled "TOYS" underscore the fragile, toy-like nature of the build.
A conceptual diagram titled "Ask vs Act: Applying CQRS Principles to AI Agents." The diagram has two halves. On the left, a blue bubble labeled "Reading" connects downward to a smaller bubble labeled "RAG," which points to an icon representing documents and a database. On the right, an orange bubble labeled "Writing" connects downward to a smaller bubble labeled "Actions," which points to icons of a checkmark in a speech bubble and a gear. The two halves are connected side by side, visually contrasting how AI agents handle reading (retrieval) versus writing (actions).
A minimalist graphic with the phrase “MCP is a USB port, not a hard drive” in bold black text on a light blue gradient background. Below the text are two black icons: a USB port on the left and a hard drive on the right, separated by a “not equal to” (≠) symbol, emphasizing the conceptual difference.
A stylized illustration of an 'Information Diet' pyramid. The pyramid is divided into four layers from bottom to top: books, speech bubbles, and newspapers at the base; social media icons and short-form content in the middle; the Twitter bird icon in the upper tier; and a microchip labeled 'AI' at the top. The design uses muted shades of beige, blue, and orange to convey different types of information sources.
A digital illustration titled "The Many Contexts of Model Context Protocol" shows a central AI model icon connected by lines to four surrounding icons: a desktop computer (local context), a cloud server (remote/server context), an office building (enterprise or multi-tenant context), and a person (user context). Each icon is enclosed in a circle with colorful backgrounds, symbolizing different deployment and usage contexts of MCP servers.
Illustration for a blog post titled &quot;Enterprise Search and the Myth of the Silver Bullet.&quot; The image features a large magnifying glass pointing from a search interface on the left to a silver bullet on the right. Abstract clouds and dots decorate the beige background, and the title is written in bold dark blue text.
A generated image of turtles all the way down, courtesy of ChatGPT
Image of book of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
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