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JUL 17, 2024·3min read·575 words ·

Overview of the Week

In which the author embarked on a week of creative endeavors in music, projects in coding, and personal growth while house-sitting and planning for the future.

Overview of the Week

House-sitting for my parents and starting to bring stuff to the storage unit- taking a bit in the peace and quiet to work on some of my personal projects and plan my future a little bit.

I've been writing a lot of code- it would be great to get to a place in a few of my projects in the stage where I need to sketch / design the UX and flow and interactions instead of writing code.

Projects Worked On

Scrapbook

Continuing to work on my Scrapbook project, even though I am not sure why, it makes me happy to work on it. But it is difficult to explain the value, or exactly what benefit it will bring me. But I persist.

Connectology

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Continuing to play with my Connectology project. Worked on moving the network pan/zoom state to its own composable. This lets me show the network as both SVG and ASCII and still let the user pan and zoom around. Also added some fun sound effects when adding or connecting nodes, or shuffling the position.

Network diagram showing 14 interconnected nodes labeled NODE 1 through NODE 13, illustrating a distributed system or graph structure with branching pathways.
Network diagram showing 14 interconnected nodes labeled NODE 1 through NODE 13, illustrating a distributed system or graph structure with branching pathways.

Netlify Dashboard

I have been working on so many projects, it is hard to see the build status of all of them in one place. I took some time to add some information hierarchy to the cards.

Netlify dashboard displaying deployed web projects including Electology, Connectology, Coachartie showcase, and photo gallery sites with build statuses and deployment timestamps.
Netlify dashboard displaying deployed web projects including Electology, Connectology, Coachartie showcase, and photo gallery sites with build statuses and deployment timestamps.

Creative Endeavors

JZULY music

Josh, Ben, and I took 2 days in the studio to record 30 demos using the live looper. Since then, each of us have 6 songs to polish in Logic, and I spent a bunch of time working on mine.

Digital audio mixing session with multiple tracks including dialogue, ambient sound effects, and music cues with frequency and volume automation curves.
Digital audio mixing session with multiple tracks including dialogue, ambient sound effects, and music cues with frequency and volume automation curves.

Books, Movies, TV

Personal Growth & Health

Ben helped me move a bunch of stuff to the storage unit to prepare to move out of my apartment.

Social & Community Engagement

Goals for the Future

Flowchart for extracting relationships from text content using LLM APIs, with branching logic for validation, API selection, and result processing.
Flowchart for extracting relationships from text content using LLM APIs, with branching logic for validation, API selection, and result processing.

News summary about Port Chester police officer Christopher Bernal killed in motorcycle crash in Highlands, New York, with extracted location data and metadata.
News summary about Port Chester police officer Christopher Bernal killed in motorcycle crash in Highlands, New York, with extracted location data and metadata.

Network diagram showing 10 nodes with nodes 1-7 and 10 clustered inside a red region, and nodes 4, 8, 9 positioned outside connected by lines.
Network diagram showing 10 nodes with nodes 1-7 and 10 clustered inside a red region, and nodes 4, 8, 9 positioned outside connected by lines.

DNA double helix structure with labeled nodes 1 through 13 marking specific points along the twisted ladder strands.
DNA double helix structure with labeled nodes 1 through 13 marking specific points along the twisted ladder strands.

Network graph visualization tool showing 10 interconnected nodes with adjustable physics parameters like node size, link distance, and gravity for force-directed layout simulation.
Network graph visualization tool showing 10 interconnected nodes with adjustable physics parameters like node size, link distance, and gravity for force-directed layout simulation.

Interactive network graph visualization tool with force-directed layout controls for node positioning, link distance, and physics simulation parameters.
Interactive network graph visualization tool with force-directed layout controls for node positioning, link distance, and physics simulation parameters.

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Network graph mapping intellectual and political movements from 1960s counterculture through modern AI ethics, showing conceptual connections between hippie movement, socialism, LGBTQ+ rights, and artificial intelligence.
Network graph mapping intellectual and political movements from 1960s counterculture through modern AI ethics, showing conceptual connections between hippie movement, socialism, LGBTQ+ rights, and artificial intelligence.

The world is editable. I ship fast, bend computers toward good problems, and help teams who have a hunch something could be better — napkin sketch to working prototype, usually before the week is out. Let's build something →

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