The American Election & the Rest of the World / / No Comments With the world closely watching the U.S. 2024 election, what could a Trump or Harris presidency mean for international stability? From rising tensions in Eastern Europe to critical climate action, the global implications of the U.S. election stretch far beyond American borders.The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) has been exploring “how a Trump or a Harris presidency Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: American, election, Rest, World
Eleventy 3.0 Released (and in use here!) / / No Comments This is just a quick note to let my readers know that Eleventy 3.0 has been released. This is a huge update and folks using it should read the full release notes here: Eleventy v3.0.0: Possums ❤️ ESM. I’ve been running a beta for a while. You can see the issues I ran into here: Upgraded to Eleventy 3.0 (Beta). I upgraded to the final version yesterday and ran into one issue, a template that output to a path without an extension. This was very clearly detailed in the error I got: [11ty] Problem writing Eleventy templates:[11ty] The template at './src/webfinger.liquid' attempted to write to './_site/.well-known/webfinger' (via `permalink` value: '.well-known/webfinger'), which is a target... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Eleventy, Here, Released
The Nicknames of America / / No Comments Some U.S. cities have very quirky nicknames. Apparently, the citizens of Auburn, Alabama like to call their town the ‘Armpit of the Confederacy’. While their nearby neighbors in Gordo, Alabama call their home the ‘Armpit of Civilization’. Elmwood and Belleville in Wisconsin both claim to be the ‘UFO Capital of the World’ (presumably because of all the strange, alien-looking folk living in Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: America, Nicknames
Using Geocoding with Leaflet / / No Comments When I first started talking about Leaftlet, I mentioned how it was "only" a map library, and by that I mean, only able to present a view/wrapper around tiles representing map data. There’s a heck of a lot of services that Google Maps, HERE, and so forth, add on top that won’t be present, things like routing, geocoding, and more. Considering the fact that Leaflet is, again, "only" a client-side JavaScript library, that’s just a fact of life. But I’ve been thinking about how I could integrate Leaflet with such services, and I thought I’d share a demo of just that – adding geocoding to Leaflet. WTF is Geocoding? Simply put, geocoding is converting... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Geocoding, Leaflet, using
ColdFusion Component for Google Gemini / / No Comments This week I had the pleasure to present on Google Gemini at the ColdFusion Summit. If you weren’t able to make it, I do plan on giving the talk again on the ColdFusion Meetup sometime later this year. After the presentation, I took my ‘rough and ugly’ code that called Gemini and decided to wrap it up in a nice ColdFusion component. This allows for (hopefully) easier use. For example: gemini = new gemini(key="your key", model="gemini-1.5-pro");result = gemini.prompt('why is the sky blue?'); And that’s it. The result variable will contain two keys, a raw value that is exactly what Gemini returned, and a text value that narrows down into the text response. Multimodal... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: ColdFusion, Component, Gemini, Google
Mapping the Political Landscape / / No Comments Waves of Interest is a deep dive into Google search trends during election years. This beautiful data visualization maps out which political topics capture the attention of Americans during US election years. And where!By using the clever visual metaphor of a topographic map Waves of Interest transforms political interest into an intuitive landscape. The visualization reveals the fall Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Landscape, Mapping, Political
The Geotastic Daily Challenge / / No Comments Can you beat me on today’s Geotastic Daily Challenge? I am currently 89th in the Geotastic Daily Challenge with a combined score of 24,263. Do you think you have what it takes to claim a higher spot on the leaderboard than the mighty ‘gmap’?Geotastic is yet another online geography game that challenges players to identify locations around the world using Google’s Street View imagery. Every day Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: challenge, Daily, Geotastic
Links For You (9/28/24) / / No Comments Hello dear readers. I wish I could say I’ve got a restful weekend in front of me, but today we’re driving to New Orleans to pick up our eldest who has been in Germany for a year, and tomorrow we fly to Las Vegas for the Adobe ColdFusion Summit. Both are things I’m quite happy about, but it’s going to be a lot. I’m currently sitting, drinking coffee, and watching "Grey’s Anatomy", a good guilty-pleasure show. Before we get into the links, a few quick reminders. If you aren’t already a subscriber, use the form below or here to sign up for my mailing list. Right now it’s just tied to my posts and as a subscriber, you’ll get an email... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 9/28/24, links