journey to image hooks

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To make the images for the notes herein I use a combination of ChatGPT and Midjourney. I prompt the AI for visual metaphors, then feed my favorite ones into the discord bot along with --ar 24:9 to set the desired aspect ratio. I then convert, optimize and munge the resulting file until I have a string of markdown ![](generated.jpeg) through stitching together wget, ImageMagick, and jpegoptim using bash —

#! /bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Provide image URL as argument"
  exit 1
fi

filename=$(basename "$1")
extension="${filename##*.}"

wget -O "$filename" "$1"
converted_filename="${filename%.*}.jpg"

convert "$filename" "$converted_filename"
jpegoptim --strip-all "$converted_filename"

echo "![$filename]($converted_filename)" | pbcopy
echo "$converted_filename markdown for jpg embed in clipboard."

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