Content tagged with "Gastronaut"

As part of my work on Gastronaut, I'm building a form that allows users to create recipes and which will attempt to parse ingredients lists and find a suitable stock photo for each item the user adds to their recipe. As well as being cute and decorative, this step is important for later when we want to normalise ingredient quantities.

What we're looking to do is take a string like "2lbs flour" and turn it into structured data - a json representation might look like this:

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Over the last few days I've been starting to build out a webapp. I was inspired by a personal "itch" I want to "scratch". Although I'm a long way from ready to share my app, I thought I'd take the time to write up some of my initial ideas and choices. I'm a big fan of building with the garage door up and as Pieter Levels says - it's better to share ideas early and get out of your own head.

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