MikeMonty

Working on a tool that compares my eBay prices to the first five recently sold prices so I can determine which to adjust. Took an hour to get it working and now it’s being tested on ten items before I let it run on all 900+ cards.

Tested eBay’s promoted listings. Thought it would get more eyes on my items/more sales. Instead my sales and traffic died. Gemini thinks all the exposure to people who didn’t search for my items caused the listings to be dinged by eBay’s algorithm. I’ve disabled the ads.

I need to get some of these pillows lol

With a foot in both camps I’ve always found this thought interesting. Also have always found it funny I feel like I can’t talk about either of these with anyone.

Just reached a thousand listed items in my eBay store 🙂

Got the script that generates eBay item drafts of the processed card pictures ready and it seems to work. Not sure if I can add more fields for the item specifics but this alone will save hours when I’m doing 100 cards at a time. 🙂

For some reason the primal app dumped all my relays in the last few days. Not sure why. Thankfully the restore defaults got it running again.

If you own a business or are a sole proprietor, how do you handle tracking your finances for planning and tax time?

Still working on the auto sorter but we’ve made progress 🙂 at least the most confident match is the actual card 😂

The kids had me generate coloring book pages for them. My son asked me to have a pet turkey eating with us so his doesn’t have a cooked turkey 😂

Finished reading The Price of Tomorrow, now on to The Big Print.

Today with Gemini 3 (Googles AI) I was able to get the image warping/homography working perfectly. Then the square cropping working perfectly. And then we ran into an issue with OCR (optical character recognition) to grab the names off cards so their processed pictures could be moved into folders. Luckily there’s another way to accomplish this, download pictures and json data for all the sets and compare my photos to them to identify the card and get the name that way. So I’m currently waiting for the library of card data to download and then we’ll move forward with automating identification. Once that’s all working I’ll begin working on having a script use all this organized data to create eBay drafts automatically (I hear it’s possible) and if not that, a csv list to import the data manually but still make all the drafts at once.

Just finished reading The Price of Tomorrow by nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvs07wc22. Very good book, and some of it a time capsule from when it was written. 😊

Gemini 3 was able to come up with a python script after a few back and forths of the console output/image outputs that could identify the rectangle of a Pokemon card and use it to straighten the image how I wanted. There’s still a small bug to fix but progress was made finally.

My new ai benchmark is “can it write a script that warps a photo of a Pokemon card to be flat”.

I find funny that most of the retail interfaces for bitcoin go down and the price recovers.

I think my next vibe coding project will be to make an app that helps me with my eBay listings. I want to be able to take all my pictures, put them in a folder, and the app automatically crops all the pictures, names the files, organizes them into folders… idk what else.

79 more cards listed 🙃

Little demo video of my Barrels vs. Humans game on Roblox https://youtu.be/TFqFQsJ2y9M