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Project Muse Finished

Project Muse started in January, and finally, I have made the final push I plan to make for a while. The project has grown beyond its original MVP, but I wanted to get it to a ‘workable’ version for my own interests and uses before putting it down entirely. I’ve described how Muse works before, but in summary, using a microphone/camera to stream to the RTSP server, it uses FFMPEG to pull out the audio. Using AWS-S3 we upload the mp3s into a bucket. AWS_Lambda on an event trigger for seeing a new mp3 file in the bucket, it uses AWS_Transcribe to get a JSON object, which includes a string of any human speech detected, a transcription. Another S3 bucket for those, and another Lambda watching here, creating AWS_SQS messages. Why? Well querying SQS instead of S3 is 10x cheaper. My original plan was for this app to work properly, and possibly for me to use it. Being a house running on one entry-level web developer’s budget, I figured anything would be better than nothing!

7 Days Sick | Muse In Composer

Last week I experienced some of the worst influenza I’ve had in several years. I remember being fairly insufferable for my first bout with covid a few years ago, but this was so miserable, for so long, also while having my pregnant wife sick, and needing to care for a child, made this the worst sick experience I’ve had since long before this. Also, with covid, we culturally had an expectation that you won’t be coming back into the office for a bit, so there was a lot less pressure to ‘feel healthy’ asap, which was another variable added into the mess.

Mentoring | Pokemon Nuzlocke | Meetups | HTTP Server Presentations

This week I began coaching a developer, went to some fun meetups, worked on my next golang presentation, and whited out of a Pokemon Nuzlocke

Nuzlocke

Last week, I got a ‘gameboy’ emulator from Anbernic. It’s basically the most interesting bit of cheap tech I’ve ever gotten my hands on. It ’emulates’ old retro game. For my purposes, Gameboy Color, Advance, and DS are the games I most wanted to visit. Specifically, I still have a lot of passion for the games I let engrosse my childhood, Pokemon. Nowadays, many people have learned to modify the original games, into bigger, more complex games. Harder, in particular. That’s how I got started this week, learning to download, modify, and install those games onto my new device. Then began a challenge in Pokemon referred to as a ‘Nuzlocke’. I won’t go into it, other than to say I was playing Pokemon Blaze Black, and lost handily to Lenora. I’m on run #6 at this point, after doing a few restarts to get a contrary Snivy. Nevermind all of that. Now that the device is set up, it’ll be taking up less time this week.