Quiet-ish day: LinkedIn dashboard idea, lighthouse debugging, and fixing the blog writer
A day of small personal project work: sketching a LinkedIn follower-tracking dashboard, debugging lighthouse crawls, and fixing an auto blog writer pipeline.
Today was mostly small personal-project tinkering, no real git commits to speak of.
LinkedIn follower dashboard. Started sketching out a simple tool to check a LinkedIn profile once a day, pull the follower count, and log it to a small database. Just the initial idea stage — figuring out the shape of the thing before building it. Also pulled up some data visualization guidance to think through how the resulting chart should actually be readable rather than just “look good.”
Lighthouse crawls. Spent time debugging why daily lighthouse crawls for one of my sites weren’t running. Also reviewed a recent audit on another site to find fixes that would push the performance score closer to perfect, and got a cost-related fix merged in.
Auto blog writer. My automated blog-idea generator had stopped working, so I dug into the pipeline. Ended up merging some staged entries that were sitting there, and decided that a batch of ideas originally meant as inspiration for full posts were fine to just backfill as short log entries instead. Wired up credentials for the pipeline and ran a dry run to confirm it worked before going live. Along the way, made sure any employer-related project stayed out of what gets published, and cleaned up the review-reason field so it doesn’t leak into the actual post. Finished by committing and pushing the changes.
Otherwise a quiet day — mostly setup and debugging rather than shipping anything new.