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Blogging with Messages

Conversation named "Blogging with Messages".
Me

Hey Matt,

An ask for Tiny Theme new feature to consider.

There is a general case where I would like to blog and include a conversation. Two examples:

  • Mimicking a back and forth in Messages
  • Sharing a dialog with an AI and the back and forth
Matt
That seems like a pretty cool idea!
Me

Ideally I’d like to be able to show:

  • A “left side” versus “right side” component of the dialog.
  • The “name” of the author of that side.
Matt

Great! Add this to your Custom CSS:

Me
That is great! I added author styling as well which looks really good. Oh, and an action as well.
Matt
That looks great. Awesome idea with the author's name.
Me

Cool. I put chat.css up so people can play with it.

Conversation ended.
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Blog Categories via LLM

After using GPT-5 to create category introductions for my website I got to thinking about the categories themselves.

With over 9,800 blog posts spanning 20+ years it is daunting to figure out an approach to categories. It is especially daunting to approach them in a way that would make sense to a visitor to my website. As a test, I gave this challenge to GPT-5 using Agent mode. It took 31 minutes to do the research. I have no idea how many web pages it hit on my site (I wasn’t watching!). It gave me a whole report and the results seem really solid.

Me

I would like you to do an extensive analysis of my blog archive at this URL:

www.thingelstad.com/archive/

I would like you to recommend a new set of categories I could use for my blog posts that may be easier and more useful to visitors. You can feel free to ignore existing categories or use as input into the process. I’m fine if there are a lot of categories, I also wouldn’t want hundreds. It feels like 30-50 categories may be fine, but I’m open to a different count. There are over 20 years of blog posts to categorize. I’m fine if categories only exist for a period of time, they don’t all have to have content throughout the life of my blog.

GPT-5
  • Travel & Adventure
  • Family & Life
  • Food & Cooking
  • Coffee & Drinks
  • Music & Concerts
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Kubb & Lawn Games
  • Escape Rooms & Puzzles
  • Fitness & Wellbeing
  • Outdoor & Nature
  • Photography & Videography
  • Technology & Coding Projects
  • Crypto & Web3
  • POAP Adventures
  • MarketWatch & BigCharts
  • Work & Leadership
  • Minnestar & Tech Community
  • Books & Learning
  • Charity & Fundraising
  • Candles & Crafting
  • Magic Pines & Cabin Life
  • Road Sign Math & Puzzles
  • Board Games & Tabletop
  • Commentary & Reflections
  • Nature & Weather
  • Pets & Animals
  • Meditation & Mindfulness
  • Travel – Food & Drink
  • Travel – Urban Exploration
  • Events & Conferences
  • Weekly Thing (Newsletter)
  • Other Side Projects

Each one of these is also provided a description and examples posts that would fit into it. This seems like a great place to use AI.

Going through my blog and assigning posts to these categories could be done with a script and some vibe coding. Perhaps this will be a winter project for me.

All of this has me thinking that it would be nice for micro.blog to do this for me. I wouldn’t mind having micro.blog use AI to recommend categories for me. But then separately, now that we have categories with introduction text take each of my blog posts and ask the LLM to categories it into the existing structure. All the data is there. 🤔

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POAP 7409077 at 612 POAP Challenge - Lake Lover.

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I collected my 200th POAP by claiming 7409051 at Minneapolis Institute of Art, part of the 612 POAP Challenge! 🎉

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POAP 7409036 at Martin Olav Sabo Bridge — 612 POAP Challenge.

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POAP 7408993 at Lake Hiawatha — 612 POAP Challenge.

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Out collecting 612 POAP Challenge locations at Minnehaha Falls.

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POAP 7408966 at Minnehaha Falls — 612 POAP Challenge.

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Perfect night for soccer game. United v Sounders! ⚽️

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I can’t believe I only tonight discovered I can get Kramarczuk’s Cheddar Sausage at Allianz Field! This will be automatic going forward. So good! 🤤