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Sad News about W5USJ and the Joy of Blogging Frequently

 I heard last night that Chuck Carpenter W5USJ is a silent key. He passed on December 2nd. Chuck was a fun person and a great mentor for all things Rockmite on the groups.io Rockmite forum . His advice was instrumental in the creation of Project TouCans and he even mailed a few toroids to KO6BTY and I when we were working on removing RFI sources from the earlier wired version of the project. Reading through Chuck's site this morning, I found a reference to SWBCI . Having never heard the term before, I googled it. And found not much, mostly references to The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. I tried again adding ham radio to the search and was rewarded with a link to a SolderSmoke post from March of 2010! If you look through the posts on that page you'll find things about shortwave broadcast interference, sunspots, WSPR, and safe-ish car tube based radio circuits! There's so much stuff! Bill had and continues to pull off the advice of Jeff Tripplett t...

Reading jpeg metadata with ChatGPT

 Hot on the heels of the night-vision Google pixel articles, Simon Willison clears up something I've often wondered about. Some of the metadata in jpeg IS in binary! Even better though, Simon mentioned that Chat GPT can help read a photo's binary metadata fields.

Another Cool Tool from Simon Willison via Claude

 Image quality compare from Simon Willison and Claude! One of the many aspects of Simon Willison's blog that I've enjoyed is the set of posts about coding tools with LLMs (AIs.) The latest one was handier than most for me. It takes an image and downsizes more and more, presenting the different version on a web page so you can judge which one will work best for your website's view while cutting down on the amount of data your web site serves for that image. So, here's the faster version of this blog's occasional header Chosen from a variety of options: You might wonder if I went meta on this and used the tool to reduce the size of the screenshot of the tool, and I aboslutely did!  Cool stuff!