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Wee Bergen
Flying to see the mother in Norway!
Alan Reid
03/02/2026 - 3 min read
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Accuracy is pretty spot on
Sometimes you get on the grind and it's all you can think about. This was one
Alan Reid
01/02/2026 - 6 min read
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Hopefully images are helping
I'm actually not sure if adding images are helping but I sure hope it is!
Alan Reid
26/01/2026 - 3 min read
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A picture says a thousand words
Picture says a thousand words and a lot more. Learnt that the hard way
Alan Reid
24/01/2026 - 3 min read
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Variants fixed! Thank goodness for LLMs
Variants have always been annoying to deal with. This sorts out a big chunk of that issue
Alan Reid
24/01/2026 - 5 min read
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A bug when finding new links was found
Prompt enginnering can be very annoying. Be nice if the LLM talked
Alan Reid
23/01/2026 - 3 min read
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Productsbolt is nearly ready
I'm starting to think Productsbolt is nearly ready. That's a cool thought
Alan Reid
23/01/2026 - 3 min read
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The long load times from the sitemap are fixed
The logic to constantly look at sitemaps were damning for the API. So I fixed that!
Alan Reid
22/01/2026 - 6 min read
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Speed Optimisations and tests
Added more tests because of course I had to!
Alan Reid
20/01/2026 - 4 min read
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Productsbolt mental model revamp
Motivation is key when building something. Kind of needed time to figure out Productsbolt properly
Alan Reid
19/01/2026 - 2 min read
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Stick to the point and not the details
Sometimes I think about getting the stuff I really don't care about done. I just want this done!
Alan Reid
13/01/2026 - 3 min read
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Adding new products with shops are fixed!
Had to relearn a lot of my own code. Annoying things fixed at last
Alan Reid
13/01/2026 - 2 min read
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LLMs can be tricky to ground down
Trying to get LLMs to pass all tests all the time can be really annoying
Alan Reid
12/01/2026 - 4 min read
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Fixing more things for Productsbolt
Sometimes you gotta roll up the sleeves and get in the dirt
Alan Reid
10/01/2026 - 4 min read
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More rigour and speed
Tests are good but what you're testing on is the question. Something didn't settle well with me!
Alan Reid
10/01/2026 - 4 min read
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Productsbolt tests have been added. Good stuff
Thought adding tests would be problematic and it was for a day. Sleep helped and it helped a lot!
Alan Reid
08/01/2026 - 7 min read
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Productsbolt needs tests
I have absolutely no idea what the best model is for my constraints. Let's test that
Alan Reid
06/01/2026 - 3 min read
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Skyscanner Plus has dynamic scaling
One of the harder things to do, I eventually got Skyscanner Plus to play nicely with scaling
Alan Reid
15/09/2022 - 4 min read
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Skyscanner Plus is on AWS
I got Skyscanner Plus to work on AWS and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!
Alan Reid
28/08/2022 - 3 min read
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Betting bot for esports
With the growth of esports, betting has become a major player. As betting optimisation is being built on, I feel there's a small chance to play the odds.
Alan Reid
05/03/2022 - 4 min readFollow my updates per month
Once per month, I'll post an update on this website which I'll talk about what exactly I've done for the month, how I've improved and how you can do that yourself.