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Overview of the Week

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Wrote 2,400 words on goals for the new year and it all sorta boils down to:

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Projects Worked On

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Made website for photos

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I finally finished a project I have been working on for a few months, which is a public place to host all of my photography https://ejfox.photos.

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Over 10 years ago I would post almost every photo I liked on Flickr, and then Instagram, but in the past few years even that wanes completely.

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So I put together a super simple Nuxt site that hits the Cloudinary API and shows the latest 100 photos that aren’t screenshots, or marked private.

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Screenshot to Cloudinary script

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#!/bin/bash\n \n# API keys for Cloudinary\nexport CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary://APIKEY@NAME\n \n# Iterate over each passed argument\nfor file in \"$@\"\ndo\n  # Check if the file exists\n  if [ -f \"$file\" ]; then\n    # Upload to Cloudinary and capture output\n    upload_output=$(/usr/local/bin/cld uploader upload \"$file\" use_filename=true unique_filename=false 2>&1)\n    upload_exit_status=$?\n \n    # Check if the upload was successful\n    if [ $upload_exit_status -eq 0 ]; then\n      # Attempt to extract the URL using the absolute path for jq\n      url=$(echo \"$upload_output\" | /usr/local/bin/jq -r '.url' 2>/dev/null)\n \n      # Check if the URL is non-empty\n      if [ -n \"$url\" ]; then\n        echo \"$url\" | pbcopy\n        # Display success notification with the URL\n        osascript -e \"display notification \\\"Uploaded $file to Cloudinary and URL copied to clipboard: $url\\\" with title \\\"Screenshot Upload\\\"\"\n      else\n        # Display notification for empty URL\n        osascript -e \"display notification \\\"Failed to extract URL from output\\\" with title \\\"Debug\\\"\"\n      fi\n    else\n      # Display notification for upload failure\n      osascript -e \"display notification \\\"Failed to upload $file to Cloudinary. Error: $upload_output\\\" with title \\\"Screenshot Upload\\\"\"\n    fi\n  else\n    # Display notification for file not found\n    osascript -e \"display notification \\\"File does not exist: $file\\\" with title \\\"Debug\\\"\"\n  fi\ndone
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This is fun and exciting to me because I can now easily take screenshots and add them to blog posts! Really innovating over here!

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\"https://res.cloudinary.com/ejf/image/upload/v1704827588/Screenshot_2024-01-09_at_2.11.42_PM.png\"

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Creative Endeavors

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Working more in my Black, White, and Red notebook. I don't know what I am doing, but at least it's different from the stuff I have been doing in the past, and it's been doing a good job of unlocking some flow state and a focus on flowy lines and motion

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https://www.are.na/block/25485394

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https://www.are.na/block/25485236

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Struggling making videos

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One of my goals for last year was to make more videos explaining things, to practice the muscle of expressing myself through video. Well, in the end I made a grand total of one (1) video. This year I would like to make 100.

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I started this morning, setting up my workspace, preparing my microphone, setting up the cameras and checking the light, only to end up losing the audio and quickly filling up the hard drive on my iMac with 15 minutes of 4k video to the point Final Cut simply gave up. But I will try to learn my lessons and get back to it tomorrow.

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Technical Accomplishments

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πŸ“˜ Learning & Development

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Getting back into RSS

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I remembered that I had set up a Feedly account in like 2010 and I logged back in and was able to export my subscriptions as an OPML file, a little snapshot in time from a prior chapter of my life.

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Personal Growth & Health

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Struggling with daily meditation. I know I need to do it, but every morning I rationalize reasons why I can get away with procrastinating and never doing it.

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🀝 Social & Community Engagement

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For The Many

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Had an interview with For The Many who recently helped secure tenant protections in Newburgh and have been working to help communities around the Hudson Valley. I am hoping that I can contribute some data analysis or mapping, but I need to understand their needs a little better. I am excited to plant a seed in that direction.

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\n\"Workflow\n
Workflow automation diagram showing email summarization pipeline: scheduled Gmail trigger feeds 50 items through loop processing, splits to LLM chains and chat models, aggregates results, and sends summary via Gmail.
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Developer's personal statistics dashboard showing 130 best WPM, 1,189 contributions, 389 photographs, and 45,923 words written, with responsive design format notes in sidebar.
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\n\"SQL\n
SQL query retrieving distinct metric types from health_data table, displaying 22 rows of health metrics like exercise time, step count, and heart rate measurements.
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