Exploring Codebases With Gemini and Mandark

Taking mandark + gemini 2.0 flash for a spin. Let’s look at https://github.com/mary-ext/skeetdeck to figure out how it’s dealing with rich text facets and embeds.

Git cloned skeetdeck with git clone https://github.com/mary-ext/skeetdeck. Ask mandark copy all code from app/api:

npx mandark app/api -a -c

This goes straight into the clipboard and looks smth like this:

Philip Nuzhnyi - @callmephilip.com 2025-02-18 13:06

Loading the entire thing into gemini. Looks pretty wild but Gemini does not seem to care:

First run, let’s try to locate facet extraction flow. My question is:

can you identify which part of it is dealing with text parsing to extract what is called "facets" - these should be links, metions and tags.

Gemini’s response below. Saving to GH for posterity - github.com/callmephilip…:

Philip Nuzhnyi - @callmephilip.com 2025-02-18 13:06

Next, let’s figure out how embeds are processed. My query:

how are embeds processed? these typically include external sites or posts. This thing is doing all the work and flattering me at the same time

To which, we get:

Spot checking this - looks pretty reasonable. I like that it also picked up on get-link-meta API where metadata gets pulled for external links. Saving for later github.com/callmephilip….

Interesting that it incorrectly points to app/api/util/post.ts instead of app/api/utils/post.ts

Let’s try something else. I will need this stuff running on top of Deno with Hono:

can you convert app/api/queries/get-link-meta.ts into a micorservice using Deno and Hono please

Please is always a nice touch - these machines don’t forget, always be nice to them

And it returns a bunch of code, see here

… which works!

curl "http://localhost:8000/getLinkMeta?url=https://bsky.app/profile/fchollet.bsky.social/[...]"

I’ve asked Gemini to impersonate Sterling Archer and it’s amazing at it! “Let’s get this done, I already asked Woodhouse to prepare a Negroni and my ice isn’t going to stay frozen FOREVER”

Getting strong jailbroken “Ashley too” vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIl…

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