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Created at: Sept. 10, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 10, 2025, 1:30 a.m.

2025-09-09-Tuesday

Created at: Sept. 8, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 14, 2025, 10:21 p.m.

Uploaded Programming by Pixel clips to my YouTube channel in case I run into significant problems rendering my own MP4 files.
Updated the blog.models.Post Django Model so that date_published and date_modified were both able to be altered (and changed the publish date for Programming by Pixels to yesterday)
Added a new category for the Post object called Series that I can potentially use for projects that aren't just one-off analyses or side projects
Created a README.md file for the programming by pixels GitHub repo that included some example videos of the different algorithms
Wrote an Amazon review of the pixel matrix including some of my videos to potentially advertise my own website (though I think it was taken down).
Finished rough outline for Homelab is Where the Heart Is
Collected necessary images for Homelab is Where the Heart Is
Updated Homelab diagram using an online diagram maker
Created the side panel image and featured image art for the post

Created at: Sept. 7, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 7, 2025, 8:04 a.m.

Figured out how to get videos to render within the RichTextEditor with CKeditor
Figured out how to crop videos with moviepy, made them accessible to my blog posts via S3 using the /media-proxy/ Django View
Created a GitHub repo (available here) to host the code for each script
Published Programming by Pixels (now available here)

Created at: Sept. 7, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 6, 2025, 10:53 p.m.

Finished first draft of Programming by Pixels
Collected all required pictures and videos for Programming by Pixels
Created a script that could crop images from the RPi camera to the dimensions of the pixel board

Created at: Sept. 6, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 5, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

Configured a work phone so I can leave my daily phone off (far less distracting)
Continued writing Programming by Pixels (may take more time than I thought, I want to re-work some of the scripts so that the code isn't embarassing)
Established a Alias Script for recording videos and images with libcam on the raspberry pi, allowing me to use commands like capvid and cappic to capture videos and images respectively.

Created at: Sept. 5, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 4, 2025, 10:45 p.m.

Created at: Sept. 3, 2025, 12:49 p.m. Updated at: Sept. 3, 2025, 12:45 p.m.

Collected starting images (more can be collected from the camera to demonstrate functionality of individual scripts), scripts, and other resources from PostiePi.
Transferred to my local machine to start writing the Programming by Pixels Blog Post.

Created at: Sept. 1, 2025, noon Updated at: Sept. 1, 2025, 4:51 a.m.

Updated the Like feature so that the color of the heart SVG represents the state of the post by the user (liked or not liked)
Added Comment functionality for the Blog App
Closed Issue 8 after implementing blog post interactivity with users
Opened a new issue called Upgrade Comments for Blog App which highlights the future upgrades that could be made for comments on blog posts.

Created at: Aug. 31, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 31, 2025, 11:50 p.m.

Fixed the SMTP email authentication issue by updating Google Workspace envrionment variables
Implemented category tags for the Blog App so that tags can now be appropriately filtered by their tagged category (closing the Implement Blog App Categories Issue)
Integrated the Like functionality into the app, with interactivity via AJAX scripts
Organized / outlined all of the different issues related to the Blog App to tackle

Created at: Aug. 30, 2025, noon Updated at: Aug. 31, 2025, 11:50 p.m.

Updated last D3 Beta Distribution Data Visualization so that the user could alter distribution parameters before sampling / selecting which animation to play
Pushed Static Files to Production, allowing blog posts to render properly in the Blog App
Optimized D3 chart widths for mobile view
Published Mini Martial Artists - Part 2, now available here
Add a ResearchPaper Django Model to the BookNook app, along with a corresponding ResearchNote object and a Django Management Command to process it