Regular Clusterflick series readers: I got distracted. Twice 😅
In the last week I entered a couple of dev.to writing challenges, and both turned out to be good excuses to write about things that were already on the series roadmap — just earlier and in a slightly different shape than I'd originally planned.
The first was the 1️⃣ DEV Weekend Challenge: Community, which I used to write about the film club discovery and "near me" features, which I finally took the time to build. The second was the 2️⃣ Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge, which pulled forward what was going to be a later post about using LLMs in the data pipeline.
Both are standalone submissions, but they're very much part of this project:
The LLM post in particular covers things I'd have gotten to eventually in this series — the matching pipeline, the reason key trick, defensive JSON parsing. Worth a read if you've been following along!
Back to the regular schedule next week 🫡
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cool!