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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…
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…
Code Project – Python + AI – Coding with Perplexity AI – Hirst Painting Drawer
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Code Project – Python + AI – Coding with Perplexity AI – Hirst Painting Drawer

Ive not been using AI a lot, frankly, I find it to be pretty lame for the most part, the images are almost always weirdly uncanny and ugly, and the writing is just bland. I've heard it's pretty good at coding though, and I have not tried using it for code at all. So I decided to give it a go. Specifically, I wanted to use it to augment an existing project from when I was taking that 100 Days of Python course. Specifically, Day 18, the Hirst Painting Project. The full original code is here: import colorgram from turtle import…
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Code Project – Python – FreshRSS to WordPress V4

A few days ago I posted about updates to my little FreshRSS script. I already did some fairly quick simple updates, though some didn't quite work out as hoped initially. Firstly, I didn't care for the big blob daily article file it pushed out to the archive. So now it spits out a bunch of individual articles, formatted "YYYY-MM-DD-Article Title.md." this created my first issue. I got a "Filename too long error." So I set up a check to truncate the article title to 100 characters, if its longer than 100 characters. I can't just always slice it, because if…