This is a reference post - mostly for my own use. Over the past few months I've used ai coding tools to create several personal solutions. I don't think the results are appropriate to share on github - it's probably easier/faster to have an ai recreate from general descriptions. In future I'll give projects a separate post in case anyone wants to the code, and if I remember I'll add them to this list and link to a project specific post.
- PDF highlight exporter: I did this for my Old Person UMN courses. All our readings are PDF now. In Apple Preview I highlight text of interest, then drop PDF on a Python applet that creates a citation-friendly plaintext file I can use in studying, writing, and import into MindNode.
- Windows slideshow from macOS Photos. Creates an 800x600 floating window and displays specified album photos in a slideshow window that behaves like any other Finder window.
- Web scraper of all articles by a specific journalist - a single use script that created a citation-friendly plaintext of all articles by them.
- Folder search in Photos.app. It's banana-pants that Photos does not search folder names. I have hundreds of folders. The script creates a plaintext file I can search using a text editor. It's easy to then browse to the folder in macOS Photos
- A web app that reformats an unreadable public Google Sheet into a mobile/desktop friendly view of CrossFit Minneapolis-St Paul workouts. This is one of my faves; I use it several times a week and it's the only app so far that other people use.
- A data reformatting app that takes several standard CSV files from SportsEngine and turns them into a useful worksheet.
- A data reformatting app that lets me download a class list and turn it into names I can put into Apple Notes.
For context I have extensive (decades) of work experience as a product manager and in technical domains too esoteric to describe. I last coded for money around 1981 (FORTRAN), did a shareware C app in the 90s that had one paying customer, and I can more or less read/edit Python. I would never have done these projects without ai coding but I do have serious development experience.
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