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Building without building

I just spent 48 hours building a new site using a new process (detailed a bit below): you-are-here.space.

The motivations:

I’ve always loved the Show HN projects that people built on a whim over a weekend. So it’s been a bucket list item for me, but I had no muse yet…
I was watching NOVA a few nights ago and learned about how Saturn pulled Jupiter away from the inner solar system. The thought has been brewing in me for a while on just how many things conspired to have everything work out for us to be here. So I was thankful to Saturn…and then on a whim, late at night, I typed this in ChatGPT:

ChatGPT as source control

In my normal use of Chat GPT, I’ve started behaving as if it’s source control when I have code generated. It’s a place I can go back to a point in time if something broke.

It’s not robust, doesn’t have a GUI/CLI specifically for that purpose, is lightyears behind git, but regardless, I find myself using it that way.

Of course I still use and depend on git for anything serious, but it’s fun to noodle new world scenarios.

Talking to myself - there's an app for that

So while walking the other day, I noticied the audio in my headphones got quiet all of a sudden. No incoming calls or butt-pressing any buttons. I was talking out loud to myself. My AirPods thought I was talking to someone else, so they turned down the volume, which is a handy feature. It just never dawned on me that it would also clock how frequently I talk out loud to myself. Turns out that it’s quite a bit. Haha.

My first PCB

Just a couple of days ago, I shipped my first PCB order to JCLPCB. This is a MOMENT. Something that needs to be marked.

My dad has been doing electronics since forever and it always intrigued and yet mystified me. I never understood how it worked. Especially as it related to audio devices. How did little resistors and capacitors make sound? It was always so fascinating, but also just as daunting to undertake learning it. Until recently.

Using ChatGPT for creative purposes

I was having ChatGPT do some anagrams for me on a username I use and I also had it do the same on ‘Nikolai Tesla’. At first, it just generated 10 replies, but easy enough to just ask for 50. That was pretty solid…it didn’t break a sweat however I did get a Creating 50 unique and meaningful combinations from those letters is quite challenging warning. So then, on a whim, I asked it to write a story with only the letters in ‘Nikolai Tesla’ (note, it’s not 100% perfect - while the majority of letters are in the name, a few aren’t, but with lower frequency):

K-2SO copying data from another droid

I just re-watched Rogue One the other day…and besides loving K-2SO (and Alan Tudyk), I noticed something new. When K-2SO is acquiring data from another similar model, the data sync is shown by the eyes blinking a pattern in unison to “communicate” to the audience that one is being copied to the other.

Check it out for yourself:

Pretty cool, huh?