March slowed down slightly, perhaps because I had more, not less, to do. This post, for example, is a bit late because I have to get ready for a brief trip over Easter and some things absolutely need to be finished before I leave.
Professor Von Explaino kindly steered me towards ChatGPT to solve the problem I was having building a Python gui. His solution worked, for that part of the problem, and made me realise that I ought to ensure that I ask ChatGPT as well as simple search. Having then got my gui up on screen, happy to receive files, for the next series of errors I asked ChatGPT myself.
Horror!
Good tutorials are worth their weight in gold, and some of the best, for me, come from Programming Historian, even though I am not an actual historian. A new one promised to show me how to create GUIs in Python, which I definitely could use. Alas, I fell at the first. The tutorial clearly warns that PyQt5 would not easily be installed on my machine, which has an M1 chip. That proved correct. Nothing daunted, I tried to install PyQt6 instead, and that worked a treat, except that …
Many countries have academies in Rome, the most famous of them probably being the American Academy in Rome. Artists of various stripes enjoy a stipend and a variably good life, generally working on something to do with the city, and the various academies open their artists' studios to visitors from time to time. These are usually great fun, for art and for socialising. Last night was my first time at the Spanish Academy in Rome.
Wow!
A few days ago, I shared some tribulations related to looking at the most popular requests to my websites, starting with all requests to Eat This Podcast in 2022.
Of the top 50 resources requested, only 14 were actual episodes or articles. The rest were technical, behind the scenes things, like various flavours of feed and some of the (locked) doors that give access to the engine. I know why people keep rattling those doorknobs, but I wish they wouldn’t.
I had hoped to see whether any meaning could be gleaned from them, but that will have to wait, because at the start I was staring at a mystery.
