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Devsetgo V2 - New Site

By Mike Ryan | Created: 25 Sep, 2024 08:45 PM | Category: Programming

I have been working on a new version of [this site](https://devsetgo.com) on and off for the better part of two years. I dropped most of the functionality multiple times as I didn't like the direction. At the beginning of the year I got some inspiration and decided on a path forward on what I wanted as the first iteration of the new site.

I decided that I want to use[ OpenAI](https://openai.com) to power part of the functionality. Like the web links functionality. Drop in a link, get a description of the link. Working on how to get a prompt to get results that you want is more difficult than it seems. LLMs have a proclivity to hallucinate and often provide the result you want, just not in the way you want it. Like if you want a value of x, y, or z, but will get a sentence of "it appears to be 'x' that is correct". Also, OpenAI has **[changed their library a lot](https://pypi.org/project/openai/#history)** over the last year.

But this endeavor has also allowed me to learn a lot about topics I haven't dug into as much as I should have.

- **Encryption**: I needed to work on how I would encrypt data in the database
- **[HTMX](https://htmx.org/)**: This is a great library and really makes building web pages fast and fluid.
- **[Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/)**: I use it to get the full page image for the web links.
- **[Github API](https://api.github.com)**: See the About page on what I am using it for
- **[Treasury API](https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/api-documentation/):** This API is interesting and has interesting patterns to mimic in your own application.

I still have work to do, but after working out the bugs and odd reasons the code would crash. I decided to release it. So welcome to the new version of my site!

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Tags: Openai, Encryption, Htmx