Chris McCormick @chris@mccormick.cx

🍵 Catastrophic peppermint tea related hard drive failure.
💻 What's the best GNU/Linux laptop in 2024? Dell XPS 13 served me well.

mud on my shoes
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wild boar country
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Worklog: epic week of hacking on https://transcriptgenerator.com features and bugfixes based on some great user feedback. Many issues closed. 🎉

I am a bit worried about creating a new vector for AI "slop" (now that the term has been coined). 😅 Hopefully people will use it for good not evil.

Generating VST plugins with ChatGPT:

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/generating-vst-plugins-with-chatgpt

we wound our way up hardknott pass to the ruins of a roman fort
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Worklog: Hosted Gitea upgrades. Built a new user account page for https://transcriptgenerator.com with a list of the user's generated articles. Testing & logged bugs.

Worklog: ended a mostly admin week eking out a bit of progress on dopeloop & transcript generator user data management.

Worklog: fixing upstream API breakage on https://transcriptgenerator.com and improved error logging.

Worklog: curating drum samples for https://dopeloop.ai/beat-maker - working towards a release.

https://transcriptgenerator.com has paying customers now and so I am going to invest more time into improving it. I'm currently looking for feedback to help focus on the highest impact changes. If you're up for trying it out and giving me feedback please DM me and I'll send you a coupon for a month of free usage of the video summarization AI feature. Thanks!

Worklog: various https://hostedgitea.com fixes. Finished https://dopeloop.ai sales page tweaks.

Worklog: Dopeloop sales page updates and new deployment.

🦊 Sitefox release v0.0.19
ClojureScript web backend library.

This release contains all the updates made during #ClojuristsTogether Q1 2024 funding. I'm very grateful for the support!

- e2e testing for major components.
- Updated dependencies and replaced deprected ones.
- Improved db layer.
- Tutorials & docs.

https://github.com/chr15m/sitefox

not all those who wander are lost
-- Tolkien
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Worklog: finished getting Sitefox shadow-cljs tests working and wrote an update for #ClojuristsTogether.

Worklog: writing and shooting a Sitefox tutorial video the last couple of days to finish off the #ClojuristsTogether funding period.

Blog post about software I shipped in 2023. Side project revenue graphs included!

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/moving-back-to-london-2023-review

Worklog: 💲 updated `aish` over the weekend. It's a small shell script to help you with command line tasks (using the ChatGPT API).

- Send a request directly from the terminal.
- See the suggested command.
- Edit it before running, or discard it.

Has saved me a lot of time.

https://github.com/chr15m/aish

Worklog: Dopeloop testimonials carousel design. Hosted Gitea admin tasks, support, upgrades. More work on Sitefox Db layer thanks to #ClojuristsTogether funding!