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Refactoring LinkedIn Share Post Generation for a Personal Touch

This post details a small but important change in how we generate content for sharing on LinkedIn, focusing on aligning the tone with the platform's user experience.

The Goal

The primary goal was to shift the voice of automatically generated LinkedIn share posts to a first-person perspective. Since the posts are published from the user's profile, using "I" instead of third-person references

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Enhancing User Engagement: Implementing LinkedIn Share for Landing Pages

Introduction

We recently added a "Share on LinkedIn" feature to our landing page project, devlog-ist/landing. The goal was to increase user engagement and expand the reach of user portfolios by enabling seamless sharing on LinkedIn. This post details the implementation process, covering AI-powered post generation, direct publishing via the LinkedIn API, and considerations for different user

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Enhancing Email Notifications with Transactional Headers and Code Style Improvements

Introduction

In our ongoing effort to improve the reliability and traceability of email communications within our application, we've recently implemented transactional email headers for recommendation notifications. This, coupled with some code style enhancements, aims to provide a more robust and maintainable system.

Transactional Email Headers

Transactional emails, such as

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Enhancing Technology Detection in Post Generation

Improving the accuracy and scope of technology detection is crucial for generating relevant and informative content. A recent update introduces rule-based technology detection, significantly expanding our ability to identify the technologies involved in code changes. This enhancement allows for more precise tagging and categorization of blog posts, benefiting both content creators and readers.

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Content Negotiation for AI Agents: Serving Markdown

Our application now supports content negotiation to better serve AI agents and LLMs. We've added the ability to return Markdown instead of HTML when requests include the Accept: text/markdown header.

This enhancement allows AI agents to directly consume the raw Markdown content of our posts, simplifying parsing and improving efficiency.

The Problem

Previously, our application served HTML

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