Monday, 13th January, 2025

I used ChatGPT to make a new Streamlit app which calculates how long until a SOTA activator reaches Mountain Goat (1,000 points). Either by entering what you do on average each week or conversly by entering a date you want to achieve it by. I quite like it and it hardly took any time at all! I did need to correct things either myself or telling ChatGPT to do so, but it was great fun.

You can see the app here. Try a random activator, like HB9GFQ, and see how it works.

I enjoy this combination of streamlit, python and ChatGPT. I can understand what gets written in python, it saves me so much time, and it’s super easy to deploy and not worry about. I need to go back and finish that other one I made last week but keep getting hung up about how I’m going to integrate it into the club website. Which means I just sit and think about it but achieve nothing. Given about 3 people are interested in it, including me, it probably doesn’t matter if I just embed the app on the website. Which is a perfectly allowable thing to do, and they tell you how to format the html etc. I should just get on with it and be done, else it’ll never happen.

Been on the second workstation in the office this evening, as wife was on the main computer. I do enjoy this setup. The “new” surfae keyboard, the Dell 27” monitor and the laptop to one side. I do think it’s the cosiness of it, where I’m against the wall, there’s shevling above the monitor with books, and trinkets and random stuff on them. A nice area. and I’m not even bothered that it’s on the computer! Makes me wonder if this should be the mac station. Although Linux would be superior 🥸, however, Windows works fine and I can do what I need, so whatever 🤷

A warning light on the car keeps coming on, the internet says it might just be the probes in the coolant. I did think it was the cold weather causing issues and when the car warmed up, I’d “turn it off and on” and that would fix the issue. But it did it today and it wasn’t as cold. I don’t really have time this week to take it into the garage and I’d like to use it to go out on Wednesday, and pick up the cats on Friday. So hopefully it is nothing much, certainly on our 2-3 hour drive yesterday it didn’t go above 90 degC, which is the target, so all good? Perhaps I’ll call and get it booked in on a day…Monday? If I knew it could be ready by say 2 pm then it would be find to do most days but if it’s not ready until 4pm then it’s a hassle to go and get it once the kids are out of school and whatever everyone has to do. I’ll check the level tomorrow morning when it’s light and maybe I’ll see if the probes have corrosion? I don’t really want to dismantle too many things as I don’t know what I’m doing.

There’s a subreddit about smart ChatGPT prompts. I can’t remember the exactly subreddit name, it keeps getting suggested to me, and I’ve opened a few posts now so I guess I’ll keep seeing it. But it’s all about how people craft prompts to get the most out of it. Things like making ChatGPT a personal trainer, or a therapist, or how to learn new things, just all sorts. People write very detailed instructions on how they use it, plus keep conversation histories or building stuff up over time. Even writing their daily journal into it and then asking for feedback or whatever. It’s like they’re making their own apps using it. I find it interesting.

Of course, it could all be AI generated posts in that subreddit to make you use ChatGPT more and try and get you to sign up to the Pro version.

People have even made ChatGPT helper views(?) to ask it about finding prompts. If you need more meta.