Pitch

Background

• solo dev Overview
• tracks
  • funniest project
  • sustainability
    • I wanted to make a project that would give an overview of the changed in canopy cover since 2000 in the Tampa Bay Region.
• tech used
  • Clojure (funniest language of course)
    • No prior programming experience
  • Deployment! (emphasized this because it's fairly difficult to set up (you need sys admin knowledge))
  • Made with Luminus web framework
  • HTMX and TailwindCSS for the frontend Data Used
• https://www.globalforestwatch.org/help/developers/guides/create-and-use-an-api-key/
• Gemini API (gemini-2.0-flash) Challenges
• getting used to the change in paradigm
• It was difficult finding an easy-to-use API to get the deforestation data.
• I had to learn new Clojure libraries to work with API requests and parsing. What I want to add
• add an Oauth2 flow for using the Global Forest Watch API
• Use the Google AI Studio to add a summation of the data for your county