In Search of My Next Role / / No Comments This week I discovered, unfortunately, that my position at Adobe has been eliminated. I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve achieved during my time at Adobe, but now need to find my next opportunity. If you’ve ever gained anything from one of my posts, or presentations, I’d absolutely love a recommendation or referral for a position in developer relations. I’m also looking for a role where I could mentor, or lead, a team of developer advocates/evangelists. So, if you know of a role, or have a role yourself, please reach out! Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Next, Role, search
Adding PDFs to Your Webpage without JavaScript / / No Comments Edited at 4:03PM to add a small note to the end. In my time at Adobe, one of the products I evangelized was the PDF Embed API, a JavaScript library for adding PDFs to a web page. I still recommend this library of course, but I was thinking this morning about how you could get similar results without JavaScript. Remember, you are allowed to build a web page and not ship any JavaScript. It’s ok, I won’t tell. Before looking at what I built, some context to why someone would use a library like Adobe’s PDF Embed: Browser’s have great built-in PDF support, natively, but the display is typically the entire page, which means you lose the context of the rest of your site. There’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, JavaScript, PDFs, Webpage, without
Summarizing with Transformers.js / / No Comments Earlier this month I took my first look at using Transformers.js, a JavaScript SDK around multiple different models hosted by Hugging Face. My initial experiments worked pretty OK I think. The sentiment analysis felt pretty good, and the object detection (with a cat demo of course), worked pretty good as well. I was curious how well summarization would work, and while I’m not quite as impressed as I was before, I thought I’d share what I found. (And it’s 100% possible I’m not tweaking the right knobs to get better results, so if you see a way to improve my results, leave me a comment!) A Basic Test If you remember from the first post, usage can be fairly simple. Import... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Summarizing, Transformers.js
The Twelve (Generative) Days of Christmas – 2024 Edition / / No Comments Last year I did a fun little experiment where I asked a few different generative models to generateimages based on the classic Twelve Days of Christmas song. For those unfamiliar, the song is about a series of gifts given over twelve days: partridge in a pear treetwo turtle dovesthree French hensfour calling birdsfive golden ringssix geese a-layingseven swans a-swimmingeight maids a-milkingnine ladies dancingten lords a-leapingeleven pipers pipingtwelve drummers drumming To be clear, this was done for fun, nothing more. Also, the prompts were literally just the lyrics, nothing more (with some exceptions, see the details below). In a ‘real world’ example if you wanted to generate images... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 2024, Christmas, Days, Edition, Generative, Twelve
Links For You (12/14/24) / / No Comments Good morning folks, as I shared yesterday, this week has been a bit rough as I found out my job was eliminated at Adobe, but the outpouring of support, and links to jobs, has been overwhelming. You people are pretty darn good, you know what? I’m confident I’m going to be able to land a good job, but at the same time, it’s going to be a heck of a lot less stressful once I actually do. On top of that, I’ve got a head cold, which is annoying af as the kids say, but, I’m alive, surrounded by people who love me, well fed and warm, so all things considered, I’m pretty dang lucky. Let’s get to the link. AI in the Browser – A Playlist A month or so ago,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 12/14/24, links
Christmas Code Break – Next Tuesday / / No Comments Hello friends. The next, and final (for the year!) Code Break will be Tuesday, December 17th, one week from today. I’ve got some surprises in store and would love to use this last session to answer questions from my audience. If you’ve got a question you would like me (and others – oh wait, that’s part of the surprise!) to answer, leave me a comment below and I’ll try to get to it. I hope to see you there! RSVP here: https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-12172024/ Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Break, Christmas, code, Next, Tuesday
Using Transformers.js for AI in the Browser / / No Comments Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending, and speaking at, connect.tech. One of the cooler presentations I saw was from Danielle Maxwell where she discussed usingAI in the browser and introduced me to Transformers.js. I’d heard of this before, but wasn’t quite aware of how easy it was to use. While this isn’t necessarily going to replace a "real" GenAI server, it does feel compelling enough to something to consider. As my readers know, I’ve been playing with Chrome’s attempt to bake this in as well, and while that’s not quite ready for real use yet, Transformers.js feels like something you could play with right now. How to get started? Using... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: browser, Transformers.js, using
Next Code Break – December 5th / / No Comments Hey folks, just a quick note. My next Code Break show will be this Thursday, December 5th, at 12PM CST. I apologize for the randomness of these sessions. My goal in 2025 is to get them a bit more consistent. We’ll see how well that works out. 😉 To RSVP for the next show, head over to https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-12052024/. I’ll be doing more building on a blog with Eleventy. I’m also hoping to have another session later in the month! Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Break, code, December, Next