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  Home use for AI: Our user manuals, warranty cards, etc. were totally unorganized and in several locations. As I'm grouping them roughly alphabetically, I'm snapping a picture of the cover of each. Claude scans the photos and generate a spreadsheet with the category, brand, model or product, Item type, and documentation type. It pulled it all from the photos and created a spreadsheet, no typing required. You could do the same for a record collection, book collection, or anything...

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  Quick Post #7: AI for Cataloging in the Home Home use for AI: Our user manuals, warranty cards, directions, etc. for electronics, appliances, etc. were totally unorganized and in several locations. As I'm getting them out and grouping them roughly alphabetically (folders for every few letters), I'm snapping a picture of the cover of each one. Claude is then able to scan the photos and generate a spreadshe https://www.mcgurrin.info/robots/8330/ #Uncategorized #AI #cataloging #Clau...

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  As we celebrate the successful Artemis 2 mission, today also marks the 45th anniversary of STS-1, the first Space Shuttle mission. To-date, it's the only launch I've personally witnessed live.

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  Virginia has just become the 19th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Can you help get your state to join? https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Virginia-becomes-19th-state-to-enact-National-Popular-Vote.html?soid=1116971938310&aid=cKiBOjnxjt0

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  Pure "vibe coding" might work, or it might lead to disaster. But working with AI to develop architecture / requirements / design notes before coding? Speed and quality. #AI

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  One of the benefits of AI assisted development that I'm sure many practitioners understand but I don't see talked about much, is the ease of keeping documentation up to date. After making additions and/or changes, you can just ask the AI to update the documentation to capture the changes. As a human, you can and should review and verify the proposed changes. It's an incredible time saver AND makes if far more likely you WILL keep the documentation up to date. #AI #Claud...

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  I'm using Claude Code on a project. As it was thinking about how to code the next piece and giving status updates, it reported, "Consulting the rubber duck." 😂 Those who know will know! #AI #rubberduck

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  Hauntomation: Automating Halloween with Python PyCon US 2026 — Lightning Talk Companion Page If you scanned a QR code from a five-minute talk and ended up here: welcome. Everything I showed and links to additional information is here. If you didn’t see the talk and just wandered in: I build automated Halloween props as a hobby, often using Python. The talk Slides (PDF): [link to be added after the talk] Recording: [link to be ad https://www.mcgurrin.info/robots/pycon2026/

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  Building My First RAG System (Which Sadly Failed the Tax Preparer Exam) A while back, I posted about how I gave the IRS’ volunteer tax preparer exam to ChatGPT. It scored in the 70s, but an 80% is the minimum required score to pass and be certified. A short while later, I took a Coursera short course on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). I then decided to https://www.mcgurrin.info/robots/8318/ #Uncategorized #AI #chatbots #chromadB #gradio #llamaparse #LLMs #ollama #python #RAG #Taxes

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com @ravenonthill@mastodon.social Back in the day, at least one model of X.25 packet switches from Hughes were programmed in Pascal. This was when Pascal was the big teaching language. As it was explained to me when I asked "why not C?", Pascal was fast enough to meet the requirements and they could hire new grads who knew Pascal without having to train them in C. The FAA's NADIN II packet switching network (long since retired...