New Journal Initiative: June 16-22 2024
By Michael
As a way of creating more content and building the muscles and habits to do so, I’m going to try and journal daily in these journal posts.
I’m starting out with a weekly post that I can add to during the week with what I’m doing for my tech/art/content journey. I’m hoping this practice will help build the workflow and skills to more easily create content. Here it goes
Doodle of the Week
June 16 - Father’s Day
This weekend I’ve been playing with the Android Developers Bridge tool (adb) and a Dart/Flutter app to try and come up with workflows to more easily move content from Sketchbook Pro on my tablet to my laptop computer. This envolves a client app on the tablet that receives Shared content from Sketchbook Pro and sends it to a network server, via wifi, running locally on my laptop. The server app then saves the shared content(a jpeg image) to the filesystem. My hope with this project is to create a way to pull images from Sketchbook Pro from my tablet to my laptop so I can integrate them as sprites into different apps. The first being the Klondike Solitare game I’ve built from the Flutter Flame tutorial [todo: link to solitare game here].
As part of this content initiative I’m trying to figure out how to better use Obsidian to track my todo list for the content and side projects I’m working on.
After adding code to command path https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac
code –help
code -n -a /Users/michaelmaitlen/workspace/personal/mmaitlen/mmblog -g content/posts/new_journal_initiative/index.md
code -n -a /path/to/blog/folder -g index.md
Also set up my tablet for adb over wifi
from tablet
image of pairing with PAIRING code
from laptop
- adb pair 192.168.1.145:46049 547116
connecting client app on macos while testing image server/client
Client macos entitlements needed the following appfolder/macos/Runner/DebugProfile.entitlements
<key>com.apple.security.network.client</key>
<true/>
June 17 - Happy Week of Making!
https://nationaltoday.com/national-week-of-making/
Not much to report at the moment. Mostly played with http requests to better understand one of the APIs I interact with at my 9to5. Hoping to get a bit further with Klondike after dinner, maybe push it up to Google Cloud Run in a Docker container. I’ll need to run through how to setup a Cloud Run Service and publish a Docker container.
June 18 - Happy Wear Blue Day!
https://nationaltoday.com/wear-blue-day/
I’m currently in blue jeans and t-shirt with blue in it’s design.
Work, work, work. Haven’t been able to focus any time on coding or art specfically, but right after this entry I’m jumping into Obsidian to work on the plan, process and system. This is definitely a weakness of mine, I’ve got notes all over the place and need to consolidate the way I plan the next steps, track them, record ideas, create content and all that stuff that feels like it’s in 100s of different places.
So….I’m adding a specific time to work on the plan/process/system stuff…starting with Tues work time…which is now. So I’m off to it!