Posts tagged: mermaid
pdpa-sg-clj: Compliance-as-Code for Singapore's PDPA, Readable by AI Agents
A new public Clojure + Babashka toolkit that turns the 11 Singapore PDPA obligations into a self-ticking checklist, a Mod-11 NRIC redactor, and a ripgrep-backed scanner an AI agent can read end-to-end.
How I Accidentally Hid My Entire GitHub — and What It Taught Me About Visibility, Forks, and Irreversible Decisions
A detailed post-mortem of the 24-hour window where all my public repos went private — the bad advice I followed, the irreversible GitHub mechanics I didn't understand, and the Mermaid diagrams that explain what actually happened.
Building an AI-Powered E-Commerce Store from Zero to One
An end-to-end walkthrough of SmartShop - a Django REST + React + Google Gemini storefront with personalised recommendations, semantic search, and an in-app shopping assistant. Architecture, models, auth, the recommendation cascade, smart search, Docker, and a clean public release.
Building a Local Mermaid Viewer With the LLM That Can't Draw
Yesterday I wrote about why LLMs repeatedly fail at Mermaid syntax. Today I used one to build a zero-dependency, offline-first Mermaid viewer — and it broke the diagram three times before getting it right.