AI image #1

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They opened up WALL-E  (2 images a day) for free Chat GPT users so I thought I would break down and try an image generator:

“Generate an image of a calico cat at the helm of a 38 foot sloop on the BC coast with a sunset in the background”


Attempt #2

“Generate an image of a long-haired calico cat at the helm of a 38 foot Hunter with a dodger and a bimini see from the port side on the BC coast with a sunset in the background”

 

Not a sailboat I would want to go out on …. lol….

So true

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“Back when there were gatekeepers, at least there was a gate and you could go, ‘That’s the gate. And if I go through that gate, good things will happen,'” he said. “Now, there’s a million gates.”

—Andrew Clark cbc.ca/news/entertainment/comedy-business-booming-1.7248706

Personnaly, I’ve always been a fan of the gatekeepers. For all the bad they can do, they (their teams usually) put in a lot of work to improve the quality of the product and filter out the oh-so-humungous amount of dreck…
Just my 2 cents.

I used my first API!!!

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Booksonix, the book management software Orca uses to manage their publications and workflow released an API (Application Programming Interface) a few weeks ago — so I started playing with it to see if I could automate some of my work.

After much playing with flask, jinja and json files I made a thing of beauty. Just plug in the print ISBN and it delivers me the cover for download and all the metadata, formatted and everything so I can just copy and paste it into the epub’s .opf file. That’s what an API does, let you get info out of a system without having to go through the regular interface so you can manipulate it the way you want. All the best websites have one: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc.