Brian Cantoni
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Proper Sitemap Update Dates for Eleventy
Sitemaps are the recommended way to ensure search engines understand all the pages on your site. This site is pretty simple and I'm not sure whether a sitemap is strictly needed, but I had one with WordPress and I'd like to keep it going. One important piece for this 23 year old blog is signalling when old posts are updated, so I had to make sure my new Eleventy-powered site handled that piece correctly. ...
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Migrated to Static Site (Eleventy)
After a nice 11 year run on WordPress I have spent the last few weeks migrating this site to the Eleventy (11ty) static site generator and switched over on the 24th. WordPress was fun to learn and had some nice features, but in the end was overkill for what I needed and I tired of keeping up with version upgrades and recovering from spammers hacking my site. ...
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Tableau Workbook Thumbnail Viewer by Claude
Claude wrote for me a simple tool for viewing and optionally removing thumbnails from a Tableau workbook file. I’m calling it my Aha! moment for AI-assisted development :) ...
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From Laptop to Cloud: Scaling YouTube Video Transcription with LLMs
My experiments around Summarizing YouTube Videos with LLMs have been working well on my Mac laptop, but I’d really like to run it as a service on a regular schedule. Running the OpenAI Whisper transcription process locally requires more than 1GB that my favorite Digital Ocean droplets provide. Instead I’ve added an option to run it directly against the OpenAI Transcriptions AI (the official OpenAI Python library makes it very easy). ...
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Summarizing YouTube Videos with LLMs
Over the holiday break I was thinking about taking transcriptions of YouTube videos and running them through an LLM for summaries. My inspiration was the dust up around Honey coupon code browser extension. Most of the news pointed to MegaLag’s video Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam. It’s a 23 minute video which isn’t too bad, but I wondered whether a summary would help here? ...
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