February

Feb was a fun month. This month I had my first official IDPA match where I ran the classifier at Sharpshooter ranking. We had our first bit of snow on the 18th with a day long blizzard.

Projects

Notebooks

First, I’m going through revision 7 of my notebook. After many samples and prototypes made by SendCutSend and assembled in my garage, I’m finally satisfied with the quality and features of the notebook that I’ve designed. It lays flat open like a book and folded back on itself, has an internally protected spine, made of high quality materials, and built in the USA. I’m gathering the final pieces of machinery to assemble them rapidly and finish the metals to a high quality. Then comes the marketing and building of the brand.

CronQuery.com

CronQuery is an AI enabled version of Google Alerts I started at a hackathon on the 7th. Instead of simply alerting you when there is a new search result related to the topic you’re interested in, CronQuery allows you to create custom events to be alerted about using natural language of course. Things like:

  • Tell me when Jupiter will be visible at night
  • Let me know when Apple announces WWDC this year
  • etc. There’s a free tier, and a paid tier for $5/month though, I think the free tier is pretty generous. With the paid tier you get unlimited custom alerts, SMS and webhook notifications.

Finally launching this week after getting 4 rejections from the carriers for SMS approval. cronquery.com

Cerebra

Over a weekend, I made an AI agent that lives in my Obsidian vault. It makes sense. AI loves markdown and that’s where all the markdown lives on my computer. It’s a cute little project and I think I’m done with it for now. Read about it in my previous blog post Brainstorming with the AI in my vault.

Fun

HTML Canvas

I paid homage to my first experience web programming from nearly 7 years ago, HTML canvas. I was testing Kimi K2 in opencode just for fun one night and came up with some “art” pieces. Kimi did a fair job at understanding my asks in English and transforming them into animated code. Here’s a link to the gallery. I might be expanding this more as time goes on. cities hexagons leaves sunset waves

Music

I’ve finally gotten around to installing and setting up Ableton Live pro and plug-ins on my laptop. This month if I was going somewhere, I most likely had my laptop and my LaunchKey Mini in my backpack. EDM music production is fun. However, not just the act of making music is fun, but also meditative listening of music that I want to replicate is a good time. This month, I’ve finally produced a few tracks that I like listening to on my own and I’m proud of it. I’ve also picked up the mandolin a fair bit. Practicing reading treble clef and sheet music for the first time in about a decade is a wild experience, but I enjoy it.