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Introduction

This article is about being productive, making progress that counts, completing tasks, projects, and finishing that next course or reading that next book.

In the last year (2023-2024), I discovered the world of healthcare IT, and I am excited about the future of technology in this evolving industry. As a highly experienced software engineer with only basic knowledge in biology, biochemistry, and genomics, I have been taking MOOC courses in health informatics systems and bioinformatics.

I am currently working towards earning a CAHIMS certification and am also looking to contribute to open-source bioinformatics projects. Additionally, I am interested in volunteer or entry-level positions for any organization seeking software talent to aid in their bioinformatics research or products.

I asked ChatGPT to generate a list of 20, 5-color hexadecimal color schemes for a professional business or sales website. The response spit out a beautiful list in the format of:

Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #95a5a6

I decided to take the list and quickly create a visual of the color schemes. This then lead me to want to use Python to parse and clean the output and generate HTML/CSS output. The initial 20 color schemes are shown below.

Doing this became fun and prompted me to want to make a more robust set of scripts to generate an HTML output. So, of course I created a repo. https://github.com/BrettFraley/color-schemes-framework-via-ChatGPT

I plan to make the color scheme framework repo rather robust with options for outputting various types of HTML elements and layout using the color schemes, options to save and store the color schemes in a SQLite database, and UI tools to manipulate and work with color schemes in the browser!

All in all, a simple ChatGPT prompt lead me down a path of creating something fun and hopefully useful to others. I’ll be updating the repo, schemes, and options and calling it complete by the end of January. I’ll be posting links of ‘color scheme pages’ here on this page, and writing more about this fun little project.

1. Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #95a5a6

2. Primary: #27ae60, Secondary: #34495e, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #3498db

3. Primary: #1abc9c, Secondary: #2c3e50, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #3498db

4. Primary: #9b59b6, Secondary: #16a085, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #2c3e50

5. Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #1abc9c

6. Primary: #27ae60, Secondary: #34495e, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #9b59b6

7. Primary: #1abc9c, Secondary: #2c3e50, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #27ae60

8. Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #8e44ad

9. Primary: #27ae60, Secondary: #34495e, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #9b59b6

10. Primary: #1abc9c, Secondary: #2c3e50, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #3498db

11. Primary: #9b59b6, Secondary: #16a085, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #27ae60

12. Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #1abc9c

13. Primary: #27ae60, Secondary: #34495e, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #9b59b6

14. Primary: #1abc9c, Secondary: #2c3e50, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #27ae60

15. Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #8e44ad

16. Primary: #27ae60, Secondary: #34495e, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #3498db

17. Primary: #1abc9c, Secondary: #2c3e50, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #9b59b6

18. Primary: #9b59b6, Secondary: #16a085, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #27ae60

19. Primary: #3498db, Secondary: #2ecc71, Accent 1: #f39c12, Accent 2: #e74c3c, Accent 3: #1abc9c

20. Primary: #27ae60, Secondary: #34495e, Accent 1: #e67e22, Accent 2: #c0392b, Accent 3: #9b59b6

These color schemes can provide a professional and appealing look for business and sales websites. Adjustments can be made based on specific brand preferences.

It’s 12:40 at night and instead of doing what I had planned, I spent two hours googling, reading, debugging failing builds, deprecation warnings, errors, and security vulnerability warnings of high and critical issues within dependencies.

What are PDEs in software engineering? I’m asking for a friend, I sware. Just kidding, partial differential equations are a subject matter I am going to learn, and am going to write about it as I go. By documenting my learning experience and posting about it, forces me to not only understand the concepts well enough to write about it, it gives me momentum to not stop after only learning a little. Choosing to write about PDE’s and produce something interesting and of value to others and perhaps even teach others what I currently know very little about, is my way of persevering to thoroughly study and undertand PDEs and how to apply them in software solutions. I will be tackling this subject in this manner on many areas of study and will tag such articles with ‘LearningAboutX’.