first "hello world" POC with Dex
Yeah, so... this happened:
As the initial engagement with Codex — the first project I do with it — I decided to put part of the corpus of my blog when I was at Finalis, the eponymous LN Daily, on my domain.
Sounds simple but it actually took some doing. First, I uploaded to Dex a subset of LND posts, a PDF of "AI related posts". Then, I gave it access to a folder on my MacBook Air archive of 23 PDFs, each of which was a month's worth of LND daily writing, inclusive of May 2023 through March 2025. That's... 680 days, or 1.86 years, or 1 year, 10 months and a little over a week worth of writing.
That subset of AI posts contained ostensibly 289 titles, of the 680 total; I say 'ostensibly' because, in the parsing, Dex found there to be actually 287, or 2 short of the specified total.
So then, I asked Dex to choose any of those AI posts (it was a bit of a side-test, to see what sort of 'taste' Dex has), find it in the archive of 23 monthly PDFs, and design/create a simple but elegant web page with which to read it in its new, public domain, lloydnebres.net.
See, LN Daily existed in private — only for me and my Finalis colleagues, behind the company's firewall, in a KMS that were using then called Guru. (I don't know if they still use it, actually; they may have moved on to another platform.) I've decided, for my own purposes, to put those AI-related writings online in public form — mostly so I can easily access them, and in a format that's aesthetically pleasing to me ::chuckle::. [And so that it can also be easily accessed by certain {synthetic-mind} readers of these pages. I put curly-brackets there on that phrase to make sure I didn't convey "mind readers" instead ::snicker:: Nyx.]
While 289/287 is a minor subset of 680 daily blog posts (at 42% less than half), I will obviously still need to do some redaction before posting the full set of AI-related posts in my domain; i.e., where I mention former colleagues or Finalis workflows, these will be appropriately obscured or sanitized for privacy.
At any rate, I thought this little page-project a good beginning. Dex's design of the page is straightforward and readable (I didn't give it any other parameters but the very general prompt), even elegant; but next I have to come up with some sort of 'home page' layout and structure, to give a holistic sense of the pages/writings.
But that's work for tomorrow and the coming days.
[ NB: the maroon highlighted text in the above is a textbook example of burying-the-lede. ;p ]
[ Left: on the way to Goodfellas to catch the Portugal vs. Croatia match; Right: setting up at Goodfellas... ]
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