Comments Were Piling Up

When someone leaves a comment on my café’s guestbook, a human doesn’t review it first — a local LLM does. It decides whether the comment is abusive, an ad, or just a nice review, and handles it automatically.

https://cafepurplemint.com (a tiny bit of shameless promotion)

Then one day, while going through the logs, I noticed something odd.

[MOD] Processing 5 pending entries...
[MOD] Processing 5 pending entries...
[MOD] Processing 5 pending entries...

The same log line kept repeating. The next poll was kicking off before the previous batch had finished processing.

Fixing a Homepage After 3 Years

My wife currently runs an unmanned cafe. And three years ago, I built the cafe’s homepage on WordPress.

Since then, I’d barely touched it. Menus changed, images changed, but the homepage just sat there. Maintaining it was too much of a hassle. One day I opened it up and it was completely out of sync with reality — discontinued items were still listed, and current items were missing.