Daily Digest

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This blog is about why we created daily-digest, what we learned and what we're planing to do in the future...

  1. Rediscover the Good: Your Daily Dose of Inspiration

    Daily Digest introduces its Good News category: a curated selection of positive, uplifting stories updated twice daily to counterbalance the negativity in the news.

  2. How (any why) we redesigned Daily Digest

    A deep dive into why and how we redesigned Daily Digest from scratch, making it mobile-first, all-news-encompassing, and accessible on every platform.

  3. Prompt Engineering: The tips we discovered

    Lessons learned from iterating on LLM prompts at Daily Digest. Practical tips for getting better, more consistent results from large language models.

  4. Posting to Instagram, and its pitfalls

    How Daily Digest automatically shares news across LinkedIn, X, and Instagram... and the pitfalls we encountered with Instagram's API.

  5. Authentication for Social Media

    How Daily Digest authenticates with LinkedIn, X, and Instagram APIs to automatically distribute news, covering OAuth flows, token management, and platform differences.

  6. Using PM2 to Build a Lightweight CI/CD Pipeline

    How Daily Digest uses PM2 and GitHub Actions to build a lightweight CI/CD pipeline for automated deployments on a self-hosted server.

  7. Inside the Pipeline of Daily-Digest: Transforming News into Bite-Sized Summaries

    A deep dive into Daily Digest's pipeline: how Node.js microservices, PostgreSQL, and LLMs work together to transform raw news into concise daily summaries.

  8. Mastering Node.js Application Management with PM2 - The basics

    An introduction to PM2 for managing Node.js applications in production, covering process management, monitoring, and crash recovery.

  9. Running Large Language Models (LLMs) Locally

    A guide to running large language models locally, comparing options like GPT, LLaMA, and Mixtral, and exploring the benefits of local LLM deployment.

  10. Why do we even exist? And what is this all about, really?

    The story behind Daily Digest: Why we built an AI-powered news aggregator to fight misinformation and deliver concise, reliable daily news summaries.