Creating Human-Readable Summaries of Data with Google PaLM Generative AI

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Like a lot of folks, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about generative AI, and AI, in general, and oddly (well for me), trying to focus on productive uses for it when working with APIs. A few weeks ago I shared my initial impressions of Google’s PaLM 2 API, and today I came up with an interesting use case for it. I’ve seen text summarization as a fairly common use case for gen AI, and I agree, it can be incredibly helpful when working with lots of text. However, I got to thinking today, would it be possible to use this as a way to summarize numerical, or other data? So given some process that returns a set of information, can we use gen AI to summarize it? Here’s... more →
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Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy

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I’ve been a Goodreads user for a few years now, and much like how I use other ‘tracking’ services, I’m not there for other folks’ reading lists or recommendations, but instead, as a way to track what I’ve read. I especially like looking back over the past year and being reminded of the books I really enjoyed. Recently, myself and others were talking on Mastodon about how to work with this kind of data, other services, and so forth. Goodreads does not have an API unfortunately (it used to, but it shut it down) but they do let you export your data. I decided to take a look at this and see if (and how) it could be used in Eleventy. Here’s what I found. Edit... more →
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Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy – Update

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Yesterday I shared a blog post where I detailed how to take your data export from Goodreads and make use of it in an Eleventy site. While describing the process, I mentioned that I wasn’t terribly confident in the approach. Things got even worse when I tried to make use of the Google Books API as well. (That’s not the fault of the API, more just an issue with how Goodreads reported book titles.) Well, today, Brian Koser reached out and pointed out a much easier way to accomplish the same thing. To be honest, I love it when I say something and folks point out a way to make it better – it’s like free content for my blog! Anyway, here’s what Brian shared. Turns out,... more →
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Download Data as a File with Alpine.js

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As my readers know, I’ve been updating some of my earlier Vue.js examples to demonstrate how they would work with Alpine.js. Normally I post these "conversions" when I see one of the Vue posts pop up in my stats. Today I noticed this entry was "trending" – Vue Quick Shot – Downloading Data as a File. I thought it would be a great candidate for showing an Alpine version. Let’s take a look. While I won’t repeat everything from the previous post, I’ll quickly cover how it worked. First, it makes use of the download attribute of the anchor tag. This will take a normal link operation and instead ask the browser to download the resource at the... more →
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Google Maps becomes the latest app to be targeted by criminals with a sneaky scam to steal confidential data and … – Daily Mail

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Daily Mail Google Maps becomes the latest app to be targeted by criminals with a sneaky scam to steal confidential data and …Daily MailGoogle Maps is being stealthily manipulated by scammers to deceive and con customers. The site allows users to see certain information about a place or business and fraudsters are editing and deleting this before replacing it with their own details.Now you can track live bus, train location of someone using Google MapsGadgets NowYou'll never be lost again with these fun Google Maps tricksCNBCGoogle Maps keeps adding weird features like hashtags, which have nothing to do with mapsBGRPhoneWorld Magazine (blog) –TechCrunch –Google... more →
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