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Major new product in the Nelsonsphere: my travel postcards. Our recent cruise to Italy, France, and Spain is a good example to start with. I plan to keep updating this going forward. I collected social media posts for 41 different trips I’ve taken in the last fifteen years. I think of each post as a postcard: a little thought in the moment, hopefully an image. When collected each thread becomes a diary of a trip and the collection as a whole is a summary of much of the travel Ken and I have done. It’s a lot, some 1900 photographs! I started tweeting travelogues back in 2009 or so but only got intentional about these as a sort of diary a few years ago. So the newer ones are better written. I’ve got technical notes on how I built this using AI coding. It’s pretty straightforward with the recent Mastodon threads, it’s basically just a thread unroller. But for older posts I had to do some heroics with heuristics to identify travel tweets. And lots of image recovery involving using the Wayback machine and Flickr and Google Photos archives to find my originals. I might have managed the basic unroller on my own but I never would have done all the archive retrieval without an AI’s help. |
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