Last updated: July 9, 2025

What I’m working on

  • A post about building Maeve (a custom GPT), our personal TV and movie maven who helps us answer the perpetual question, “What should we watch tonight?”
    Follow-up posts will describe:

    • preparing and cleaning my personal ratings data (from Netflix, IMDB, etc.) to serve as Maeve’s knowledge base

    • refining Maeve based on couch-based field testing

    • prompt ideas for movie nights — including themed snacks

  • Collecting data and scribblings for a Lab Notes post on “How We Sized and Selected a Backup Generator”. Will be including info on measuring power draws from various household items to create an energy budget for a power outage.

  • In the idea stage for a post, “People I Want to Emulate and Why”, including the likes of Austin Kleon, Brett Victor, Andy Matuschak, and Oliver Burkeman.

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Open Questions I’m Exploring

  • Can I build a “web-of-notes” from the gargantuan LaTeX/PDF file of daily notes that I’ve written over the past five years? I’m looking to create something(s) I can browse, search, and otherwise use to surface interesting content for this site as well as for future experiments and study. This is really a dream project for me — and no, I’m not trying to build another Obsidian. More to come on this topic soon.
  • How can I create “live” charts on this site to allow both you and me to explore the rain, solar, radon, and other data I’m collecting?
  • What will it take to build “Marian, the Librarian” — the custom GPT, book-recommending “sister” of Maeve?