Our local rail system called the T is finally back in full service in my neighborhood! Since my wife and I are “senior citizens” we can ride for free! In fact we’re taking it down to the north shore to check out the WW II ship that is currently docked by Acrisure stadium. Additionally, my wife and I share a car which for the most part works out well. I go out to Barnes and Noble at South Hills Village quite a bit and the T goes there so I might start look into taking it once in awhile instead of driving. 🚇
What a beautiful, sunny day in store today! High in mid 70s! 😎
Rabbit, rabbit! 🐰
I find I’m using ChatGPT more and more to help with coding questions where I used to rely completely on stack overflow.
Last day of August and it’s going to be another hot day!
“Every day is a bonus.” – Badger Bob Johnson
I really love how I can update my main blog, my micro.blog and my Datasette instance all from Electric Drummer! 😎
I have my annual dermatologist appointment today. Ever since my mom passed away from melanoma in 1991 I have been getting my skin checked. I have had a couple of scares (“basal cell carcinoma”) but they were all minor and easily treated.
Ended up spending 5 hours at the Subaru dealer yesterday waiting for my Forester inspection. The biggest time waster was a bearing problem that was covered by my warranty but gave the mechanics all kind of problems. They did have great Wi-Fi though! 😎
Strive not to be a success, but rather be of value. – Albert Einstein
Another scorcher today! I’m really tired of this excessive heat! 🥵
Mid 90s today with a poor air quality alert to boot! I can’t wait until fall gets here!
Another hot day with possible thunderstorms! ⛈️
I’ve added a parser for urls that are in a blog entry. I create an array of the urls and add it at the end of the blog entry before it is added to my Datasette instance. I might revisit the feature at a later date but I like it for now.
A new version of my KM macro that directly updates my Datasette instance from Drummer without requiring a dialog. 😎
My daughter was featured in a local newspaper article about what would happen if the ban on TikTok were to go through. The article can be found here.
Going to another hot day today with the temp pushing 90! 🥵
Now I can go back to looking at why my vector encoding didn’t work last night.
Now I’m trying a new trick using my icon on the side of Drummer to both update my blog and update my Datasette instance. It worked! 🔥
This is really cool! Turns out the Keyboard Maestro supports url schemes so I can call my Dataseet update routine from Drummer! 😎
Fixed a bug. Turns out I needed to change the KM variable definition to use $KMVAR when passing it to a shell script. 😁
Testing out a Keyboard Maestro macro to allow me to add a blog entry/update to my Datasette instance using keyboard commands.
My first attempt at creating vectors last night for my blog content failed for some reason and as I was quite tired I put it aside.
Going to heat up today but the humidity should be relatively low. 🤞🏻
Next I want to experiment with creating vectors of my content so I can do similarity searchs.
Finished importing my blog posts that have been written in Drummer into a Datasette instance.
VP Harris gave an electrifying speech last night! One of the best I have heard! 😍
Today I’m hoping to get all of my blog entries into datasette and then create vectors of them for working with an llm.
Made good progress working with shot-scraper and sqlite-utils to integrate my blog with datasette. 😎
The Obamas were on fire last night! 🔥🔥
My goals for today:
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Incorporate sqlite with my blogging
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learn shot-scraper
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learn Github Actions
Another cool, crisp and beautiful morning! 😍
I’m looking at how I could store my blog content in an sqlite database so I can do more data exploration of it with Datasette. I’m wondering if I should convert the opml to markdown…
I love working with data. Between pandas for python and datasette by Simon Willison there is so much I can do to explore the stories hidden in the data.
Feels like fall this morning. A little rain and cool temps! 😀
The Pirates scored more runs in yesterday afternoon’s win (7-2) than the Steelers scored in their loss last night (9-3)! I know it’s still preseason but the Steelers better figure out how to score touchdowns soon! Wasn’t the disruption of the quarterback room and a new offensive coordinator supposed to spark a wave of scoring? 🤷
The Pirates finally broke their 10 game losing streak last night! 🙃
Looking forward to having lunch with some old work friends! 😍
Looks like the heat is coming back but with low humidity which I can deal with!
I can’t believe how great this weather is! 😎