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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 24, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 23, 2026
Updated USGS water agent skill, end of week 2 already!
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 23, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 22, 2026
Inspirational workshops, possible AI skill for USGS Water Quality Portal pivot?
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 22, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 21, 2026
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 21, 2026
MVP Canvas
Further refining the problem/solution vision, building personas, discussing features
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 21, 2026
Daily Checkin: July 20, 2026
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 18, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 17, 2026
Made a demo video, found more similar, but closed-data, websites, moving forward with my specific vision
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 18, 2026
Weekly Reflection: Week 1
Picked a project (Tap Water Quality Dashboard) and made a horrible demo video!
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 17, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 16, 2026
Set up dev environment, tested `pdfplumber` table extraction
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 16, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 15, 2026
Notes, research, requesting feedback, moving forward?
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 15, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 14, 2026
Researching and more questions...
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 15, 2026
Notes: US Drinking Water Quality
Research on how water quality is measured in the United States
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chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 Journal
chrisjm's Hack Your Summer 2026 JournalJul 15, 2026
Daily Check-in: July 13, 2026
Researching a TDS water dashboard for coffee/tea. Since data is locked in regional PDFs, I'm evaluating OCR extraction pipelines via APIs vs. local LLMs and checking municipal data availability.
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