{"id":8304,"date":"2025-12-30T18:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:20:00","slug":"happy-new-year-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/30\/happy-new-year-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vb-happy-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"159\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vb-happy-2026.jpg 985w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vb-happy-2026-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/vb-happy-2026-768x124.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fooling around with some AI lately and I understand that some users have been using AI to write code. So, I tried my hand at asking it to write a script for a countdown to the new year. I asked for JavaScript to be embedded in HTML and it produced the result seen below. The AI (Google Gemini) produced JavaScript, HTML and the Style Script (CSS). All I had to do was provide the HTML Header and Body and, voila, the counter worked right off the bat. <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/share\/85ff59348b94\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Gemini Code.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><s>If you see &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221; instead of the counter, then It is already (MST) 2026.<\/s> The counter is now set for St. Valentines Day, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/scripts\/gemini-ai-counter.htm\" width=\"600\" height=\"120\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting this some 29 hours or so before the new year so visitors to the site can see the counter. I may (just for grins) change the code to countdown to 2027 after the new year.<\/p>\n<p>So, from both Verna and I, we wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year in 2026!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: I changed the target to St. Valentine\u2019s Day 2026! And a happy St. Valentines Day, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fooling around with some AI lately and I understand that some users have been using AI to write code. So, I tried my hand&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-holidays","category-nerd-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8344,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}