A lot has happened over the last few months. One of which was the passing of my step father and moving my mom out of the house. Over the course of a long weekend. Which is a long story in itself.
One of the great things that came out of this whole moving process was being gifted a couple of scrapbooks that are filled with family recipes. Some are cutouts from a magazine, some are handwritten in my grandmothers writing. Some were even from my great grandmother.
I really enjoyed going through them, and I wanted to find a way to preserve the memories in a way that I could share with friends and family. So I decided to create a website where I could store all of them.
With recent advancements in AI I was able to come up with a system where I can simply take a picture of the recipe and upload it to the site, and it sends it off to an AI agent that reads it (even in grandma’s cursive) and loads the text and image into a database and then shows the recipe on the home page:
In this first episode of Charlie’s Note to Self, I talk about why I decided to start this podcast and why now felt like the right time. I recorded this during a winter storm, which felt fitting — everything outside was quiet and uncertain, and that matched where my head was at when I sat down at the mic.
This podcast isn’t something I’m doing for an audience. It’s something I’m doing for myself. I’ve wanted to podcast for a long time, and I’ve done it before with co-hosts, but this is the first time I’ve done something like this completely on my own. That’s harder, more uncomfortable, and more vulnerable — but that’s also why it feels important.
