Journal
Notes from the capstone.
Monthly reflections on features built, problems solved, and lessons learned while developing What's On My Food.
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Final Validation and the Capstone Defense
What I learned while refining What’s On My Food, completing the thesis, and presenting my capstone defense.
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Making Food Results Easier to Trust
September was about making food scores, recall checks, and missing-data states more honest before final validation.
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Marketplace Comparisons
Comparing a scanned product against retailer alternatives, with price, package size, health context, and clearly labeled development data.
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Product Details and My Pantry
A redesigned product details screen with clearer findings and data freshness, plus a full My Pantry experience for saving, sorting, and reopening products offline.
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AI and Ingredient Recovery
Recovering missing ingredient data from label scans and moving Bitwise AI explanations behind a protected backend with validation and safe fallbacks.
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Grounding Gemini in the Additive Database
How I moved the AI layer from free-form answers to source-grounded explanations that cite the additive database on every response.
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Scan-to-Explanation: First Analysis Pipeline
An introduction, the first working scan-to-analysis pipeline, and an honest retrospective on month one of my capstone.
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