Building a Document Q&A System with On-Device AI / / No Comments Every now and then I build a demo for a presentation and think to myself – this deserves its own blog post. I then promptly forget to actually do that. Even better, I completely forget to even show the demo in the presentation. A few weeks ago I made my first presentation at RenderATL and gave my talk on Chrome’s on-device AI technology. I’ve been blogging about this particular set of APIs for a few years now and I’ve given talks on it at numerous conferences. While these APIs are still evolving, many of them (and the ones I’m using today in particular) are now fully GA for Chrome. For this demo, I put together a few things I’ve done before into one cohesive... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Document, OnDevice, system
My Family Allowance – a Simple Allowance Tracking Site / / No Comments As you can probably tell, I’ve been on a bit of a builder kick the last few weeks. Today’s "release" (it’s been live for a few days already) is a tool to help fix a manual process we had in our family – tracking allowance for the kids. Previously we made use of a Google Sheet. Each kid had a column. When a kid would ask for something, we’d look to see when we last added allowance, multiply the number of weeks by their rate, add it, and then add another row to reduce by the amount they were spending. A simple formula on the right hand side would give a running total so they could see what their current balance was. I decided to take this manual process and... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Allowance, Family, simple, Site, Tracking
Weather Nerd? Check out My OSX Radar Widget / / No Comments I know I’m not alone in being a bit of a weather nerd. Along with four or five weather apps on my phone, I’ve got two physical devices in my office that show the weather and a weather widget on my Mac that shows the day’s forecast. That’s not enough. What I really wanted was a radar widget as well, so I built one: Ok, to be fair, I used Cursor to build it – but it really scratched an itch I’ve had for a while to constantly have one more thing to distract me. If you want a copy of this yourself (or want to make it better!), I’ve set up a GitHub repo here: https://github.com/cfjedimaster/precipradar. I’ve got both the source as well as a build... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: check, Nerd, Radar, Weather, Widget
Like LEGO? Got a Mac? Get My Screensaver / / No Comments Good morning my fabulous readers. This will be a quick post as I just wanted to share something cool I built with Cursor over the past couple of days – a LEGO screensaver. I’m a huge fan of "show me something random from something I like" and have built multiple bots in that vein. I recently discovered Rebrickable’s LEGO datasets which contains a CSV file of LEGO sets. The data looks like so: set_num,name,year,theme_id,num_parts,img_url 0003977811-1,Ninjago: Book of Adventures,2022,761,1,https://cdn.rebrickable.com/media/sets/0003977811-1.jpg 001-1,Gears,1965,756,43,https://cdn.rebrickable.com/media/sets/001-1.jpg 0011-2,Town Mini-Figures,1979,67,12,https://cdn.rebrickable.com/media/sets/0011-2.jpg... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Lego, like, Screensaver
Links For You (8/23/26) / / No Comments Greetings, programs. Once again, I’m a bit behind on these posts, but I just got back from two weeks of travel and I’m so happy to be home for a while. My last trip was pretty stressful. On the way out, our plane blew a tire (or tires) which required an emergency landing in Dallas (which is where we were scheduled to stop anyway). Everything ended up fine, but as I said, stressful. Then coming home we were minutes from our destination when the pilot had to turn around due to storms. You can actually see exactly where in the route where they said NOPE: For this, and other reasons, I’m damn happy I’ve got a therapy session tomorrow. So, let’s get to the links. And... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 8/23/26, links
Using the Cursor SDK to Build a Project Documenter / / No Comments I’ve shared a few posts recently talking about how I’m using Cursor to learn and employ agentic development. Primarily that work has all been done via our Agent view, but this is just one of the surfaces you can use with the platform. I had a chance recently to try out the SDK and I thought I’d share a little demo I built with it. First – some explanation would be helpful. You can use Cursor with the desktop application, on the web, via CLI, on iOS, even via API. But the SDK lets you use the platform from your code. There’s an SDK for TypeScript, Python, and a bridge that embeds a TypeScript server and lets you use any language. Honestly I’ve never seen that... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Build, Cursor, Documenter, project, using
– A simple web component for file previews / / No Comments This was a "I can’t fall asleep and my mind is wondering" type of idea and honestly, I’m surprised at how good it came out. For a while now I’ve shared demos where a user picks an image and … something. It doesn’t matter. But I typically add a preview of the image when it’s selected. This works because once the user selects a file on their local system, JavaScript can then access the bits of that file, making it trivial then to render it. The idea I had, late at night, was simple – what if this could be a web component and expanded to cover different file types? In my imagination, it would look something like this in code: <form> <!--... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Component, file, previews, simple
Links For You (8/2/26) / / No Comments Happy August folks. Louisiana is celebrating the approach of Fall by gradually increasing the temperatures to roughly that of the surface of the sun. Last night we saw the new Spider-Man, which was really good, although not as fantastic as "No Way Home". The point of these posts is for me to share content from other folks, but I’ll remind folks of my Youtube channel. This past week I shared a few new videos demonstrating some cool stuff with Cursor so if you’ve not checked them out yet, give me a quick watch and let me know what you think! Web browsing on your gaming console First up is a great post by Vale detailing the capabilities and history of web browsers on game consoles.... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 8/2/26, links