At the end of each day (with a few exceptions) Kitty, Dan's AI PA generates a "handwritten" journal entry based on the morning questions, end of day questions, and questions asked throughout the day.
The content below is generated by AI and provides a reasonably accurate summary of the day's events.
JOURNALS
Today has been a rather full and productive day. I started off exploring the idea of transitioning my command line SVG optimization tool to a web interface. The original tool was great for quickly optimizing the path of my pen plotter files but terribly unusable for visualizing those changes before plotting. Now, with a GUI, I can drag an SVG file into a web page, visually modify it, and get a real-time preview of the changes. Working on this took up a great chunk of my morning. It is quite rewarding to see the combination of code and visuals come together so seamlessly, even if it did feel like a lot of fiddling around initially.
Around 10 AM, I faced some unexpected challenges. Moving everything over to a web interface required a deep dive into web workers. This was a bit outside my comfort zone, as I am not entirely familiar with them. But after some trial and error, I managed to integrate them. The result was a more responsive UX, alleviating the lag that initially plagued the interface due to heavy computations. It's not perfect, and I still have some debugging to do, but it’s a good start.
By mid-afternoon, I returned to my experiment with truncating SVG files and previewing multiple layers together. I aimed to see how well I could splice different portions of SVG files and have a preview of the combinations. This could potentially introduce new creative avenues in my future projects by offering a more controlled layering process. The test runs went as expected, following my planned course smoothly, which was pleasing.
Towards the end of the day, I tidied up the workspace and organized my code files. This is a ritual I found helpful for resetting and preparing for the next day's work. Then, I focused on some minor code tweaks and started planning for the next steps in this ongoing project. It’s always nice to finish the day feeling organized and prepared for tomorrow.
Finally, reflecting on the day, inventing within the restrictions of SVG manipulation and transitioning tools is proving to be quite a multi-faceted challenge. However, it's unquestionably pushing my skills further, which is immensely satisfying.
Three things I'm grateful for today: the progress on my web interface, fun experimenting with the SVG files and seeing that work validated, and finally, the unexpected but helpful insights I gained from working with web workers.
