I’ve been back in Arizona since Saturday. My last 24 hours in Montpellier were a bit frantic, trying to take care of last-minute things I wanted to prepare for the next visit, in addition to working an eight-hour day and trying to get a few hours of sleep before my Uber arrived at 4:15 am. As a result, I spent my travel day finding moments to relax rather than trying to write blog posts. When I got to church Sunday morning, one of my fellow parishioners who follows this blog was surprised to see me.
Since then, I’ve been spending my free moments adding a new feature to the blog software. One of my friends from the Camino de Santiago — the one I referred to as Babar in past posts — is getting ready to retake the trail next week. He’s been pinging me with questions about my time in Spain in 2023, and although I have the data, it’s not always readily useable.
While on the Camino, I tracked nearly every step I took with an app on my phone, and it’s been a longtime goal of mine to get all those GPS traces onto this blog. That’s what I’ve been doing over the past three days. If you’re interested, you can see them here or by clicking the Traces link in the footer of the blog.
There’s still more I’d like to do with traces. For example, I’d like to display a map with the starting and ending points of each trace or link waypoints to blog posts. However, I’m happy with this first pass.
This is the first coding project I’ve done with AI assistance, and the results have been both frustrating and magical. Frustrating when it offers up a solution that’s obviously wrong at first glance. Magical when it suggests dozens of lines of code that are exactly what I needed, but much faster than I could type it or even think it.
