My latest generative AI obsession: Suno. You provide it some lyrics, give it a musical style to emulate and hit the create button. It’s pretty wild.

I wrote some fun lyrics about deploying code on Fridays, set to some catchy 80’s pop. The result is pretty crazy.

[Verse]
Testing in production (oh yeah)
That is how we roll (whoa)
Testing in production
using my flawless code

[Bridge]
Why should I write tests (what?)
My code is never a mess (oh no)
Did I just rhyme,
Tests and a mess (yeah he did)

[Chorus]
It’s Friday afternoon.
It’s time to deploy my code. (whoa yeah)
The weekend is almost here.
It’s time to deploy my code. (watch out)

[Verse]
It’s Friday afternoon.
I don’t have anything to fear
It’s time to deploy my code.
The weekend is almost here.

[Bridge]
Why should I write tests (what?)
My code is never a mess (oh no)
Did I just rhyme,
Tests and a mess (yeah he did)

[Verse]
It’s Friday afternoon. (Whoa)
It’s Friday afternoon. (Whoaaa)
It’s Friday afternoon. (Yeah!)
It’s time to deploy my code. (WAIT WHAT)

[Bridge]
Why should I write tests (what?)
My code is never a mess (oh no)
Did I just rhyme,
Tests and a mess (yeah he did)

[Chorus]
It’s Friday afternoon.
It’s time to deploy my code. (whoa yeah)
The weekend is almost here.
It’s time to deploy my code. (watch out)

[Chorus]
It’s Friday afternoon.
It’s time to deploy my code. (whoa yeah)
The weekend is almost here.
It’s time to deploy my code. (watch out)

I didn’t get a chance to make it out to see the total eclipse in person this time. (Really bummed… 2017 turned me into a legit umbraphile!)

Earlier today, I pulled down a number of images from NOAA’s GOES-East satellite and compiled this video. It takes a photo every 10 minutes. You can clearly see the Moon’s shadow as it makes its way across North America.

(Protip: Set the image quality to 720p. YouTube’s compression makes that video look like garbage otherwise!)

Pretty awesome!

Somewhat related — in 2020, I compiled a bunch of NOAA imagery that encompassed 3 weeks. I need to get that project up and running again…

Hey… we’ve seen this movie before!