On this day Saturday, 19 July 2025

This is where we went, what we listened to, tweeted, coded, blogged and spent on this day

 
$127.98 - Liquorland Forres 18 6665
Beer and Wine
 
$77.70 - Osha Thai Cuisine 18 6665
Takeaways
 
$6.50 - RCP Perch 18 6665
Coffee
10:16
all-the-news - Add breaking news getter
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10:57
all-the-news - Add breaking news to news pages
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11:21
all-the-news - Update NZHerald scraper
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11:27
all-the-news - Type in javascript
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12:31

This morning I added a breaking news feature to my NZ news aggregator. But I think there is a very wide gap between what I think is breaking news and what the NZ Herald thinks is important breaking news. I suspect I might be removing new feature that took a couple of hours to code.

@spudooli@mastodon.nz
14:11

I bloody love the internet.

I added a new feature to my news site. I then lamented NZHerald was taking the piss with their clickbait fake breaking news bollocks. @Niall suggested I use AI to figure out if the breaking news is clickbait or not.

35 minutes later I have an LLM (Llama3.2) installed on my server here at home and a proof of concept script returning an answer telling me it is indeed clickbait.

@spudooli@mastodon.nz
15:23
all-the-news - Add LLM checking if breaking news is clickbait or not
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17:40

Gosh I've had a good day coding today.

Some days the code kicks my arse and some days I smash the code.

Today was the day I looked at the code and declared I am the captain now.

@spudooli@mastodon.nz
18:53
First Mates Last Laugh
Westhaven, Auckland
23:58
$172.77
End of day bank balance