📌 putting this here so that I remember.

I woke up on my day off with a headache for what seems like no reason. I did everything I thought right: balanced breakfast, coffee, advil, plenty of water. Annoyed. At around noon I took a bath and put my head under.

Instant relief. Why!

Well maybe it's because the blood vessels are mildly dilated. Maybe the water pressure affected it. I doubled down and put ice and cold water in a bowl and dunked my whole head in. It felt fantastic. Maybe I'll do that more often.

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.