Weekly report
| Student: | @student.ucll.be |
| Study: Professional Bachelor | Major: ICT |
| Company: Yappa | City: Hasselt |
Activities Week 09 (20/04/2026 - 24/04/2026)
Monday (Day 41)
Today I focused on addressing the feedback I received from Davy regarding the first Proof of Concept (POC) Pull Request. The primary objective was to significantly reduce the scope and complexity of the PR to make it more reviewable. To achieve this, I removed all the abstract base service infrastructure and unified interfaces, opting instead for a straightforward, concrete flow from Controller to Service to Repository. This refactoring was highly effective: the PR was reduced from 90 to 40 changed files, and the lines of code (LOC) dropped dramatically from +4500 to +1500. Alongside this, I resumed work on the Step 2 PR, focusing on HTML content extraction from user-provided URLs.
Tuesday (Day 42)
Today I continued with the second step PR of html content extraction. The task was to extract as much meaningful content as possible from a provided url . I made use of a PHP Readabili ty library to parse the HTML and cleanly extract the main article content, filtering out unnecessary elements like navigation, ads, and footers. This ensures that the generated AI summaries are based purely on the actual content of the linked pages. Furthermore I started working on the step 3 POC which is about digest generation.
Wednesday (Day 43)
Today I completed the digest generation PR for the MVP. This pull request introduces the ability to generate concise summaries for every knowledge item within a category, compile them into a unified digest report, and automatically sync the results with Notion. For the remainder of the day, I transitioned to the Slack integration, focusing on a TypeScript PR to build the frontend interface for the digest generation and category management.
Thursday (Day 44)
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Friday (Day 45)
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New skills
- Refactoring large Pull Requests for improved reviewability by simplifying the architecture.
- Implementing HTML content extraction using a PHP Readability library.
Useful data
Remarks
Returning from a two-week break, it was refreshing to dive back into the codebase. Simplifying the architecture of the initial PR was a valuable lesson in balancing architectural patterns with practicality and reviewability.