Two Weeks of My News Aggregator: RAG Chat and a Sentiment Dial

Originally published on my blog Two weeks ago I shipped my news aggregator as a finished Symfony 8 app — fetch feeds, enrich with AI, send alerts, generate digests. Fifty commits later it looks different. The aggregator grew a conversational chat that searches its own archive, a sentiment dial that bends article ranking toward whatever mood I'm in, and a full-text fetch stage that pulls the actual article body when a feed only ships a teaser. Plus one operational bug I fixed three times before I