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Code Project – Python – Flask Microblog Fixes

Claude is pretty great for creating code, but sometimes you have to actually look at the code. I have blogged quite frequently about my Microblog project. It started as a simple script that just ran on a timer with a manually filled queue, then it pulled from my shared RSS reader feed, and now its basically a full on blog platform. One hang up, it has been double posting posts, but not always. I asked Claude, several times, to comb through and figure out why this is, and each time it "fixed" the problem, but didn't. So I took a…
WordPress Image Optimization
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WordPress Image Optimization

Something I've tried to do, then forgot I was trying to do, for while now, is to optimize the images across the WordPress sites I have.   It's actually just this one for me, and my wife's two old blogs she no longer really uses.  There are a variety of plug ins that do this, I believe all of them require subscribing to some sort of API.  I'm not spending \$100 to optimize my 22,000 images and I'm not going to remember to come back monthly to chip away at 500 free images per month. The thing is, I'm also, pretty…
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Code Project – Auto-Sharing Micro-blog

So I wrote a post a while back about my sharing workflow from Fresh RSS. Basically, as I read stories in my RSS Reader, I tag anything I find interesting. Then, sometime.on Friday or Saturday, I run a script that pulls all those stories, asks if I want to add commentary, and adds them to a queue that sits in a basic text file. Another script runs on a Cron job every hour and pulls pulls links and posts them to my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. It also creates an archive file of everything posted. It also dumps an HTML…
Digital Garden
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Digital Garden

I have essentially completed my Digital Garden project. I say "essentially" because I am sure I will iterate more and its intended to be added to, pruned, and maintained. Its a garden. What is a Digital Garden? Honestly, its a bit nebulous, but its basically, a curated block of resources online. A Wiki is sort of a Digital.Garden, but those tend to be a lot more complex, making them something more. For my part, its just, a collection of sorted links on various topics I am interested in. It started out as just something to sort my Bookmarks into. It…
Vibe Coding Often Sucks
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Vibe Coding Often Sucks

I've posted a few simple AI created scripts here in the past few months. Generally these are simple automation tools. Convert X format to Y format. Post some links to social media. Not every project is a winner though and I've found that in many cases, the more complex things get, or the more obscure, the quicker it falls apart. Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm not asking for the right output int he correct way. I wanted to run through some of the failed experiments in "Vibe Coding" I've had. Mostly done using Claude, which is generally one of…