September 2024 Work Log
Added 2024-10-04 20:40:06 +0000 UTCHi everyone! This is a few days later than usual, but here's everything I worked on during the month of September, exclusively for Patreon supporters.
Tech Tales
It's been a few months since the last Tech Tales episode, but the show returned in September with a new episode about the Abraham Lincoln robot created for the 1964 New York World's Fair. I was joined by Mason Conrad, who designed the podcast's original artwork and logo in 2021, but hasn't been a guest before now!
You can listen to the episode on YouTube or with your favorite podcast app.
The Spacebar
I wrote three articles on The Spacebar in September:
As a reminder, you can follow The Spacebar on Mastodon, RSS, email, and Google News.
Alt Text Creator
I released version 1.2 of my Alt Text Creator extension in September, with support for OpenAI's newer GPT-4o AI models and local processing with LM Studio. I already wrote a post about that, so I won't repeat everything here.
ImageShare
I didn't get much time to continue work on the ImageShare rewrite this month. My plan is to get a mostly-functional version live on the main site soon, and once most (or all) features of the current PHP version are implemented, I'll do a formal release with updated documentation for self-hosting.
My initial plan was to write the new ImageShare in the TypeScript language, running on a Node.js server, but I'll probably have to go with regular JavaScript and Node for now. Node doesn't handle TS as well as I was hoping, especially with some dependencies causing issues. I might try an update to TS in the future, but I really need to get this initial version out the door.
