The longer, warmer days have returned and brought a little bit of my creative spark back so I've been working on ruffinweather.today to see if I could make it feel like more of a finished product. It was a good test of the latest AI models (Codex 5.4 mostly) and I was able to finish a few features that had stalled out before.
The most notable of these is a new garden dashboard page. I thought it would be nice to know for sure when the seasons changed, and what to plant when, so I used the weather data to build a monitoring system that will keep track of the number of warm/cold days and nights so that when a certain threshold is reached we can officially declare the start of a new season.
I also included a database of all of the plants I grow, and the seed packet data will be used to automatically notify me when it's safe to sow a given seed, or when to transplant, etc.
Eventually I'll work my way back to the ruff-registrar project, I left it in a pretty good spot, but I tried to launch it to production pre-maturely and got burned by an Azure bill I wasn't expecting so I haven't looked at it after spending a couple of days scrambling to try to shut everything down.
I have a spending limit in place so it wasn't the amount that hurt, the issue is that once I hit the limit all of my other sites got turned off, lesson learned.
In other news, the Yankees are off to a decent start. They just opened the season with a 5-1 trip out west, it's been a while since they've done that, in recent years they've been happy to get out with a split. Opening day in the Bronx is tomorrow and I'm excited for that.
Summer is my favorite season but the way spring heralds all of my favorite things to come makes is a very easy close second. I'm going to get back into the dirt while there's still a bit of sun and warmth left and try to soak in as much as I can.