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 Start of Week Update - 003 By A.A. Lopez     Let's look ahead at this week and hope there's something cool to achieve. Especially as I come to think about what can I make that's not too reliant on internal systems. Which I'm realizing is both work and personal life... huh, that's gonna be a fun convo with my therapist. Anyway, here's the plan for this week of 6/16 - 6/20: Monday Work on the Pseudo-code for the new tool I discussed with a coworker and see the internal logic behind it Post Affirmation Station Audio to r/PillowTalkAudio Devlog the Audio Drama for DJ Mercer Tuesday Record DJ Mercer lines Practice more python scripts and try to mess them up to figure out how they work Wednesday Present the Caps Cleaner Reduced v.1.0 Thursday Juneteenth - Day off - work on a project I hadn't thought about or play a video game or just hang out Friday Summer Friday - Day off - work on a project I hadn't thought about or play a video game or just hang out     Ac...

 End of Week Update - 002 By A.A. Lopez     This past week had a lot of stuff going on. Some of which I don't think I'm allowed to share here, so I'm gonna be brief on my updates, then literally right after this I'm gonna post the SoW Update. Monday Caps Cleaner Devlog - Eff yes! Did that and showcased the new materials. Though I wasn't able to add in any media regarding the code or anything like that, but still! Got it done. IMDb Scraper Tool - Finished and working item in the code of the Caps Cleaner Reduced version. Will be integrating it soon with the main version soon. Tuesday / Wednesday This is where a lot o' shit went down this past week. Had to move showcasing the Caps Cleaner to the next (this week). Cleaned my apartment, actually a huge win, go me! Came up with a new idea for work that might be very helpful, already talked to 2 folks about it, now just need to talk to 2 more. Thursday Technically speaking I did relax... after trying to figure out what...

 Caps Cleaner Devlog - 003 By A.A. Lopez     Haha! Yes, we're working with gas now! I've just finished the script for a basic version that takes multiple vtt files and updates them following the rules established, as you can see in Devlog 002 . Now there were some minor issues that I came across and found perfect solutions, currently. Issue 1 - Punctuation     This hurdle was easy to overcome using substitution function that forces the letter that follows an ending punctuation to become capitalized. I also added in the function that if the letter is "I" by itself or if there is ('m|'ll|'d|'ve) following it, the letter will be capitalized as well. Though in here that makes the very first letter of the caption file not be capitalized, so had to add in that if it is the very first letter in the caption file it will be capitalized as well. Issue 2 - Text Blocks & Formatting     Here the problems got a bit more dicey, since not all sentences fit on a si...

 Caps Cleaner - Devlog 002 - Flowchart By A.A. Lopez     Because I want to get as much out as possible this Sunday as I wait to go see a live D&D show at the Hollywood Bowl, here is the .v1 flowchart of the original Caps Cleaner idea.  As you can see it's fairly straight forward. VTT files are uploaded to the Caps Cleaner and it begins it process according to its Caps Rules functions: Switch all instances of AllCaps to MixedCase. And while it is not the outcome that we want right away it gets us to what we need. Follow Proper Noun rules. Based on a list of Proper Nouns found in the English language (using that as my starting point) all instances will be changed from "tim" to "Tim" and so forth. Minor Issue: Found that some Proper Nouns are also nouns and verbs as well, will need to adjust parameters. (Ex: Will, Hope, Faith) Ignore all instances of Acronyms (FBI, CIA, USA), Roman Numerals (II, III, IV, V, IX, X, L, C, M), and other issue types similar. Follow...

 Caps Cleaner - Art By A.A. Lopez     It's weird that I'm hitting back to back posts so early in the morning, well early in the morning for some, but 10am feels later in the day than it should be, probably being summertime?? Anyways, another thing I wanted to share here is the logo I've developed for the Caps Cleaner app.     While playing around with Aseprite, OBS, and Premiere Pro I decided why not make a video of trying to make this little 32-bit logo.     The inspiration for this came from the name itself: cleaner. If it's a cleaner, why not make it a bar of soap? You can see I struggled a bit trying to figure out the exact dimensions, how to make the bubbles, and getting the color scheme. I'm not sure I'm 100% on it just yet, and might develop something later on, but for now, I think it's pretty nice. Here's the logo itself without the video, still figuring out how to make a 32-bit image not look pixelated blown up...

 Caps Cleaner DEVLOG 001 By A.A. Lopez     So I haven't really expounded on what Caps Cleaner is and why I am working on it. Let's step back and look at what I do for a paycheck: I do quality control, specifically in the field of media. Whenever people ask me to clarify it feels difficult to explain, not because it's a difficult gig, nor is it hard to parse, but because there is so much that goes into it. Usually my go to explanation is, "I watch TV for a living," because that is a major part of it, but the breakdown is a bit more.     What I'm actually doing is reviewing content and assets delivered by several partners and labs that go through their media and package to our company's spec and ensuring that these are 1:1 and if not flag, fix, or reject them. So what do these rejections look like? Well they are: Poor video quality, which could range from 5 or more seconds of an empty black screen to damage that is similar to magnetic damage found on old VHS...