Ever asked ChatGPT about someone you know, personally?

Mike told me the other day that it gave him a nice little summary about me: what I did for work, what my hobbies and interests are.

It felt a lot more personal and detailed than I would have imagined. It's not like I'm a public figure with a wikipedia page. It summarized (this website) and my linkedin profile and probably anything else you could get with Google.

What made this different... or somewhat unsettling... is how it pulled up all this information in quick, conversational language—which I guess is the whole point of generative ai.

If you haven't tried it yourself, give it a shot. It's the new version of "googling" yourself. Hopefully you're not shocked 😉

I posted these to instagram and I can't help but share the autogenerated alt attribute in the img tag:

"Photo by Jesse PeIley on May 06, 2024. May be a selfie of 1 person, beard, mountain and snow."

I'm dissatisfied with spreadsheets on phones so I thought I'd start learning how I can use javascript on a webpage to do my most common calculations for me. hurrah

I've been learning Spanish for the past month or so using good old duolingo. I thought it would be cool if they had a public api to pull my profile stats and post them here live but it seems it would be harder than I would hope.

This URL shows my progress but it requires authentication but it's something.

https://www.duolingo.com/api/1/users/show?id=11848513

First code written on the mac mini 😝

tell application "System Events"
repeat 1000 times
click at {950, 755}
end repeat
end tell


Well worth the hike! 📸

I should have had marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers to complete the experience 🍫

Glad we can breath again today!

I finally learned how to poach eggs. Yes, it was delicious. No more 🍳😌

It's already 2 months in to 2023 and I can't believe it. I had a quite the career change last year and I'm just settling in now. This year I'm focusing on important things like reconnecting with old friends.

Much like how I disliked the bloat of wordpress, I also don’t like how bloated mediawiki is.

I think I’ve learned enough of javascript and sql to build something similar for myself.

I would start with a blank page, the home page. Additional pages would only be able to be created if it’s linked from another page. This enforces organization and prevents dead links.

On a single page, each paragraph would be considered the smallest “unit”. This enables stronger searching with sql queries. Instead of returning a full page with a match, it would be easier to return which segment of the page that matched.

Using javascript I would make the page’s content and the html forms be dynamic. It definitely won’t be as advanced as Mediawiki’s VisualEditor but it would be similar.

I would make it so that if I double-tapped the space between paragraphs, a new textarea would be inserted in-line, allowing a new segment to be added to the page. Tapping away from this area or hitting the return key twice so as to end a paragraph would save the textarea to the db in a post action. To maintain a fluid/desktop like feel I will not reload the page but use javascript to replace the textarea box with a simple p tag.

I would not re-invent the wheel and adopt markdown. So to create a link to a new page I would put a word in square brackets. This would be rendered as a link (to a page that would not yet exist), after saving the segment it would render as a red hyperlink or blue if it already exists.

Editing a segment would be the same, just double tapping the segment (paragraph). Javascript would remove the paragraph and replace it with a textarea of the same size and content.

It’s another idea and it may never happen. But it sure would be nice to have it for studying this CMLTO refresher course 😋