Checking if a Movie has a Post or Mid Credit Scene / / No Comments Tell me if you done this before – you’re sitting in a movie theater after it’s ended and want to know if you should stay for a mid, or post-credit scene (also called a stinger). You open your phone, google, and end up a web page that has five gigs of ads or so and then thirty to forty paragraphs of text talking about the movie before they finally get around to actually answering the question. Yeah, I hate that too. I always tell myself, next time I’ll google ahead of time so I’ll know before going in, but I never do. If this bugs you, I built a web app that literally only tells you if the movie has these stingers – and nothing more. No context, no description... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Checking, credit', Movie, Post, Scene
Automating Movie Recommendations with Generative AI and Pipedream / / No Comments For the past few months or so, I’ve started tracking my movie watching with Letterboxd. I’m not doing a lot of reviews, mostly just logging, but I find it neat to look back and remind myself of what I’ve watched recently. You can see my profile if you’re curious, or check out my "Now" page as well. I thought it might be interesting to see if I could use my Letterboxd data along with Google Gemini as a way to suggest the next movie I should watch. I was able to build a quick workflow using the incredible Pipedream in a few minutes. Let me share with you how I did that. What does it do? # At a high level, my workflow does the following: It runs, automatically,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, Generative, Movie, Pipedream, Recommendations