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6 points ekglimmer | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.408s | source

Hi HN,

I have been working on a project which can automatically convert a recipe to the tree/graph/tabular style notation that pops up on HN every now and then. It's still early days but I am keen to hear about improvements I can make to the recipe presentation.

For reference, the earliest example I have seen of this style of notation is from 'Cooking For Engineers' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797907) but I have seen other, similar notations from time to time.

This is my take on the notation, as well as the ability to convert recipes automatically. In the future, I would like to see it become my own personal kitchen/recipe management system but I would first like to improve the recipe display options.

It uses GPT-4o to format the recipe into a JSON tree structure, which is then rendered with CSS grid. So far it works well enough but there is definitely some recipes that are impossible to render, and of course GPT-4o will occasionally spit out less-than-useful trees. I have been using AppWrite for the backend.

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts and what people might like to see!

1. ndgold ◴[] No.44448996[source]
I love this thing for process view. Can you share the code so I can fork and build for our academic groups who need help with processes?
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2. ekglimmer ◴[] No.44449201[source]
Would be happy to discuss! Shoot me an email so I can understand a bit more, email can be found on my site in my bio or on gobsmacked!