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Who has two thumbnail learnings about hugo blog post images? 馃榾馃憤馃憤 Note that I finally learned how to make hugo blog links sent by imessage have thumbnails and I re-learned how to make hugo blog posts thumbnails show up. So as far as text message thumbnails go, apparently, since my images live on s3, I needed to make sure their content type was image/jpeg because in my case they were binary/octet-stream....

September 29, 2025 路 (updated October 5, 2025) 路 2 min 路 290 words 路 Michal Piekarczyk

Hugo charts from Google Sheets

I had a random idea recently, hey can hugo display charts from data in a google sheet? I wanted to perhaps use public accountability to help encourage me to start night fasting earlier. The result is here. And since my goal was public accountability, this made the task easier since I was able to just use a public google sheet, so security and authentication was mostly a non issue.

September 28, 2025 路 (updated October 18, 2025) 路 1 min 路 69 words 路 Michal Piekarczyk

travel insurance success story

Placeholder. I followed through on a travel insurance claim and actually managed to get to the end. Received a check in the mail . This is for medical expenses from a story I wrote about earlier 1 . I have paid for travel insurance many times and only once prior to this case, did I really need it. In 2015, I got conjunctivitis on travel abroad and found myself picking up the eye drops for this in an airport pharmacy in Frankfurt....

September 28, 2025 路 (updated October 3, 2025) 路 1 min 路 170 words 路 Michal Piekarczyk

Frozen in Time

Saw a bee on my roof this morning which I hadn鈥檛 seen before. It was a cold morning. The bee was still and sitting. Some shifting of weight with the wind. I took a photo of this bee. But there is a bee whose photo I could not ever take before, because ever since I started coming to this rooftop every day for a year, during the warmer days there would almot always be another bee a kind of yellow jacket bee, that would always aggressively say hello right up to your face, so there was never really a time I would attempt or even think of taking its photo as it tries to hover in front of my face....

September 24, 2025 路 (updated October 18, 2025) 路 3 min 路 445 words 路 Michal Piekarczyk

Funny or AGI

I got a laugh, showing this silly 馃槢 before and after to a family member recently. But this expensive silliness is just an example of an otherwise very versatile technique. I remember still for most of the brief lifetime of ChatGPT that this kind of image manipulation using a prompt, with autoencoder latent space manipulation was not possible. The only models available for most of ChatGPT history were like DALL-E text to image word2vec types, trained by using a dataset of text and image pairs....

September 20, 2025 路 (updated October 18, 2025) 路 1 min 路 151 words 路 Michal Piekarczyk