Launching a Project: CowSaysDailyNews.com

My opening entry on this relaunched blog was discussing how I recently did some self-learning with AI using Google's Gemini CLI.  That work really sparked an enthusiasm for me to keep working with AI, and my focus was around summarizing news headlines which I continued to work on automating.  My first versions were just simply outputting the headlines in command line and wrapping them in the "cowsay" command.  (Think: echo $daily-news | cowsay ).  But, before I knew it, I found myself thinking this should be better served as a web platform where people could get a quick update of daily news.  I made pretty quick and early progress, and my inspiration to keep working towards building something tangible continued...

I was able to use AI to help me get started by solving some challenging code logic, creating some website graphics, and even setting up an automation pipeline to generate updates on a daily basis.  It was honestly very enlightening to me to see how fast somebody with some motivation could use AI effectively to bring an idea to fruition.  AI has some scary potential impacts, and some uses that I think we need to be careful about instrumenting.  But, the simple point is that I could not have brought this idea to life without it.  I can write code, yes.  But it would have taken me weeks to do this without AI just from the technical perspective, not to mention graphics, publishing, etc.  

 

With this backstory, I'd like to announce Cow Says Daily News.com.  The name represents my early use of the cowsay command brought to a more modern web-based experience... CSDN was launched this week, and I've been making some fine tuning/tweaks since launch. I hope people try it and enjoy using it.  It was fun to build, and if it's helpful at all, I'll take that as icing on the cake. Feel free to check it out.  Bookmark it if you like, or subscribe to receive a daily email update of top news headlines.

🐮https://www.cowsaysdailynews.com 

Overall, I'm really happy with what's been built.  CSDN is certainly a labor of love, but one that I wanted to bring to fruition.  Although the experience was entirely educational on my part, I think there's a chance people might actually use it and get a benefit from what it can do.  Here's our chief correspondent!

 

I chose the Ghost.org platform to host the site, largely because I'm a big fan that they are open sourced. I also wanted to open source my code that gathers news and brings CSDN to life.  So, if you're interested in checking it out, here's the Github Repo. 

Thanks for reading