[Nut-upsuser] Last call at the bar

[Jim Klimov]

Hello all,

  As the season of April's Fools and Easter eggs is coming to an end, you
have the last chance to see the slightly redesigned NUT logo on github or
website.

  The story behind it, which I find technologically interesting, is that
one slow evening I ran a "What-If" kind of exeriment, and asked ChatGPT
from my mobile to reimagine the Network UPS Tools logo in a construction
materials meaning, with a hex nut and a suitable bolt. AI found the
original on the Internet, rather than using the URL I gave it, as both
GitHub repos and the NUT website generated and hosted by GitHub infra have
robots.txt and I could not convince AI as the project maintainer to bypass
it (kudos actually, albeit annoying).

  It took a dozen iterations of variably tilted bolt and different
perspectives of looking at the nut, with side panels sticking out in
various unnatural amounts and directions. Inner hole also flipped either
hex or round for quite some time. On the up-side, in its own wording AI
called the diagonal lines on the bolt "threads", and argued against adding
the triangle tip (construction bolts do not have one, but the original
lightning one did), and began adding slits on the bolt head as it is more
of a screw now. Getting the threads cut to the end of bolt, and even spaced
evenly, was also an effort. But it understood relatively well the request
to add alternating shadows on the thread cycles to get a lightning zig-zag
effect.

  As SVG is XML-based, the groups of tags were diligently commented to
reflect the "physical" idea behind them.

  The free allowance of the ChatGPT session ran out, and lest I wait till
morning, Claude took over the draft. It fixed the 3D-ish nut side panels,
changed coloring from silver to bronse (like orijnal logo), and added
gradient coloring.

  Overall the experiment took about an hour, with distractions like getting
kids to bed, all without getting to a computer.

  Hope you like it, and if you miss the live version - it can be seen later
at the nut-swag repo.

Jim Klimov
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