I've been working with CoPilot all morning on some new amazing code. The app shutFUp has now become a template for any site, to create big beautiful slide shows of high quality images, in a low bandwidth way, with fades and continuous playback.
I used to have to include the exact names of each image including their path, that I wanted to use, inside the main web page. A real total non flexible pain.
Before that, I had to take all of the 3200x3200 images I created with openAI, convert them down in resolution to a usable size. In the process I was losing the deep amazing quality the AI provided.
Then, for each AI compressed generated name like QW9Y31fB.jpg, I had to rename it into something simple, like slide01.jpg. And then each name had to be typed into the code.
So I first asked Co this morning, how could I convert big images into smaller ones, without losing quality.
He recommended a Windows command line app install called magick, that I can run from the command line, and convert all of those big .jpg images, into the .webp format, which reduces size significantly with no loss of quality.
We got it working great and now I've got a new set of sweet images that need to go up onto the server, with the still stupid name.
So I told Co what I wanted and we modified the main app to get every image that's in a server directory, whatever the name, and skip all the inline code bullshit.
We also had to come up with a PHP program that sits inside the image directory and supplies a .json feed of all image file names, even if they were just generated and uploaded, back to my app, when it asks.
I know all that stuff, so Co and I worked together and came up with something very cool.
I can now add any number of big beautiful AI generated images immediately up into this directory, with no resizing, or renaming, or coding, and get higher quality images.
I just converted and uploaded all the new shutFUp images I created last night, and they slid right in.
In fact, I'm being totally entertained with the app open on my desktop, as I write this. Click the shot below to check out my new work.
I'll add a Space Bar pause function next...
I'm really jazzed about my new version of shutFUp. It's not a slideshow that you have to drag left and right, and it's not a YouTube video. It is a custom HTML page that resides solely within a domain directory, that lives inside my webspace on the internet.
I buy the Domain name, (if it's available), and www.shutfup.com was a steal at $10 for a year.
So, when you go there, you are loading up a single page, that presents my current AI generated images sequentially, in a smooth fade in manner. The header and footer text with shadow, are fixed. Each image lasts for five seconds, and the whole collection wraps around, until you leave the site.
I've been creating this app with Microsoft's CoPilot at my side. I can upload the code I've written to him, tell him the issues I have and what I'm after, and he re-writes it.
After a few iterations, I had exactly what I wanted, thanked him and said good night.
So now, I'm going to create some more AI images, which will show up in the new app.
So, my work on the concept of shutFUp is taking effect. I'm finding that it's a positive way to be, and putting a zipper on my old mouth sometimes, makes life in fucking Paradise, easier.
I'm getting back into shape for the Summer, I have a roof over my head for a couple of months, and a new roommate arriving in nine days.
In the meantime, why don't I just shut the fuck up...
Shelby dropped their two small dogs off with me today for a few hours, while she took care of stuff in town. It was just to give me some dog time, which I've really missed. Zinny and I are old buddies, and I've missed her, while Poppy is a cuddly little sweetheart.
We hung out in the Cave, on the front porch, and got in three sunny walks around the neighborhood.
I sat around the house all day yesterday, with both doors wide open, warm Pensacola air blowing through, and all dog exits covered.
My roommates two little dogs were locked in her room upstairs, barking at the world to come be with them, and I couldn't.
When they were finally free, and I was loving them on the couch, they were snatched from my arms, and taken back upstairs.
Hmmm, I've had some very low points in my old life, but this one is right up there.
I have run out of energy to fight back.
Hummm, I thought I could be angry, and tough, over this latest event in my pathetic life. I was wrong, I just feel broken, again. You get out of life what you give, and I haven't given enough obviously.
It's pretty fucked up that I let my depression rule my life. Shelby called and asked if I wanted Zinny and the new dog to hang out here for the afternoon. I said no, because I was working on this.
So fuck it, I'm going to Vegas.
I grabbed this cool shot of the scrapes on my elbow today, I call it Bacon and Egg. I honestly don't think it's going to kill me, but I'm treating it.
The current roommate situation here has almost totally dissolved. I think it's a case where someone has adopted two adorable little dogs, made them the center of everything, and uses them to achieve control over those that fall for them.
Very sad really, I see the look in their eyes and they don't know what to do. Anyway, just keeping my cool as much as I can, as the month comes to an end, and I will never see them again.
I'm really liking this hi-res square format. Here's my latest creation about getting my head scanned. It may not fill your screen like a movie, but the detail is amazing.
The medical system down here is less flexible and more expensive compared to Tennessee. I had a little walk-in clinic a minute away that took great care of me over the years. Sometimes I'd buy the staff fresh donuts from the best pastry shop in town.
They charged me a $10 copay, with Blue Cross/ Blue Shield insurance, and down here it's a consistent $45 bucks per visit.
I had a brain scan a while back, with a bunch of probes taped to my brain and a tech taking notes. When I saw the neurologist this last time, he was busy so they sent the PA in. I asked about the brain scan results and she glanced at her paperwork, and said You're fine. I was charged $45 bucks for that and they wanted me to do an EEG soon.
So I just had one done. No appointment has been made yet, so they can tell me I'm fine again, but I did get a $45 bill.
But now I really miss the Fast Pace clinic in Lawrenceburg, TN. I scraped my right elbow the other day, and I just can't get it to heal, and it's infected.
I've looked around and there ain't no walk in clinics that I can find. So I'm treating it myself and hopefully my arm won't fall off. I've got a Primary Care doctor here, who's probably weeks out from an appointement, but it's just not the same.
And I know my brain is fine, otherwise I wouldn't be able to write this brilliant drivel.
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