With a couple of hours to spare, I decided to try and upload a correct route for Monday’s ride. First I had to convert the data recorded by Compass into a GPX file. With the help of ChatGPT that was reasonably easy, resulting in a Python script that works. I ought perhaps to tweak it to name outp...

Sign-up spam is replacing comment spam as a source of annoyance.

For some time now my podcasts have benefited from a semi-automatic transcript produced with the help of Sonix.ai. It is a paid service, but not all that expensive, and has the great advantage that it is very easy to correct the output because it has a nifty built-in player that will let me listen to...

The quarter of the car.

This morning, indieblog.page on Mastodon pointed me to You should write deliberately bad tools from Qword and I had to chuckle, as it exactly describes why I treated myself to about 50 minutes of tomfoolery yesterday, though at a considerably lower level than Qword’s.

A lot of people are down on tools like ChatGPT for reasons I fully understand. Heck, I’m down on it myself as a substitute for a human writer. But to help my amateur programming efforts, I find it insanely useful.