JSON Results with Google Gemini Generative AI API Calls

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Forgive the somewhat alliterative title there, but today’s post covers something that’s been on my mind since I started playing with Google Gemini, specifically, how to get the results of your API calls in JSON. To be clear, the REST API returns a result in JSON, but I’m talking about the content of the result itself. Before I continue, a quick shot out to Allen Firstenberg who has been helping me off and on with Google Gemini stuff. Anything I get wrong though is entirely my fault. 😜 Ok, so before I go on, let’s look at a typical result. Take a prompt like so: "What is the nature of light". Pass this to Gemini via the API, and the result you get, once you... more →
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Monitor Events and Function Calls via Console

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Despite having worked on the very complex Firefox for a number of years, I’ll always love plain old console.log debugging. Logging can provide an audit trail as events happen and text you can share with others. Did you know that chrome provides monitorEvents and monitor so that you can get a log each time an event occurs or function is called? Monitor Events Pass an element and a series of events to monitorEvents to get a console log when the event happens: // Monitor any clicks within the window monitorEvents(window, 'click') // Monitor for keyup and keydown events on the body monitorEvents(document.body, ['keyup', 'keydown']) You can pass an array of events to listen for multiple... more →
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