Today was mostly about one project: A Wine App. Up until now, the app’s validation was self-referential — it checked wines against its own catalog and its own matcher. That works fine for anything already in the system, but it’s blind to wines that live off-catalog.
So I wired in an external online source as a corroboration layer. Now two of the skills — the restaurant wine-list reader and the wine-enricher — can reach out to an outside reference to validate and enrich entries: confirming regions, pinning down grapes, vouching for wines the local catalog has never seen. It’s a real shift in posture: from “trust what we already know” to “go check against the wider world when we don’t.” Not a huge diff — a few hundred lines across the engine, ops, and admin — but it changes what the app can actually be sure of.
The other thing I touched was The Cloudy Brain, and only its content side. Judging by the churn — roughly equal amounts added and removed in a single pass — it was a rewrite of existing material rather than anything new. Words swapped for better words.
Where things stand tonight: the wine app finally has a way to look outside itself, and the writing on The Cloudy Brain got a once-over. A focused day, not a sprawling one.