SWM's thoughts

Adding an email digest feature to an app I have.. Not very exciting but should be a handy wee feature.. will code it up first and see..

Ohhhhh I might get to garden this morning and afternoon…. About fucking time!!!!

🔄 2003: parsing garbage HTML. 2026: parsing garbage LLM output. Full circle. - https://swm.cc/notes/the-llm-is-the-new-parser

🤖 Local LLMs can see family photos.It even detected the beer brand. https://swm.cc/writing/indexatron-local-llm-photo-analysis/

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Indexatron: Teaching Local LLMs to See Family Photos

An experiment using Ollama with LLaVA and nomic-embed-text to analyse family photos locally - proving that privacy-preserving AI photo analysis actually works

Lil science experiment this Sunday morning on AI Photo analysis API using models via ollama... 👨‍🔬🧪🥼

Doing lots of work on the-mcculloughs.org - with the help of claude it helps me get the CRUD done.. nice..

Wee evening of graph db stuff for my whatisonthe.tv app... Sometimes its nice to just try something new..

Appointment to get my arm fixed. Tennis elbow. It hurts. My Dad is turning in his grave. But I really fuckin hurts….

The Sunday Reset is real. Problem is I can’t be fucked resetting. So chasing my tail the whole week is gonna be it I think 😀

Wee Saturday night hacking session on a few side thingies is always a good shout.. Good way to spend <3 day

'lil blog on what I did this avo... Feels good to do this now and again.. https://swm.cc/writing/building-swanson-recommendation-system/

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Building Swanson: A RAG-Enhanced Recommendation System for whatisonthe.tv

How I built a context-aware recommendation system using Claude, Server-Sent Events, and viewing history to suggest TV shows and films

Proving out to be a nice wee addition to this project...

Doing a bit of AI programming now - well just a wrapper to an AI agent to help me do things will document if a success. Time will tell.

Ohhhh Claude Code is nice - got this up and running in no time.. https://j.swm.cc/c/NDklo6 https://j.swm.cc/c/FA7u2S

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This TUI is looking nice. Claude Code makes things like this so nice

Wee Friday night project... gonna build a TUI called swanson... to manage my projects.. Lets see how this works out...

Floor shopping today. Was gonna see about doors but nothing is ever fucking simple…. Got a few tears to bring home…

First thought from my werk machine.. hopefully works

New blog post up.... Claude code and how it has changed my workflow - https://swm.cc/writing/working-with-claude/

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Working with Claude: A Senior Developer's Honest Take

After months of integrating AI into my development workflow, here's what actually works and why planning mode, skills, and tasks have been game changers

I can now post from the CLI (which will suit me greatly). The source is now visible in the thought too! 🧑‍💻

Just spent 2700 quid on furniture there for the TV Room. I feel faint….

So as I said o moved my thoughts to an app. Read here on my project page - https://swm.cc/projects/building-thoughts/

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Building thoughts.swm.cc

A simple Rails microblogging app for quick thoughts, replacing a complicated workflow that didn't work on mobile

Moved my thoughts to a new home.. wee rails app. Should make posting a bit easier.. Time will tell.

Moved a domain to migadu.com and started to use neomutt. I missed mutt. Lets see if I migrate my domains to this instead of gmail…

Spent way too long trying to workout how to get spotify history working in my workflow. Back to the drawing board tomorrow.