Can GenAI help you win in Vegas? / / No Comments No. Thank you and goodbye. Ok, first off, I apologize for the click-bait style title. Every now and then when I get an idea for a demo, it doesn’t work. But sometimes, it doesn’t work out in a fun and interesting way, and I figure it’s a good idea to share it anyway. (Also, there’s always the strong chance that it didn’t work out because I did something wrong!) Today’s demo is a perfect example of that I think. Earlier this year I built a Blackjack game using Alpine.js and the quite excellent Deck of Cards API. Yesterday I was thinking about the game and I wondered – what would happen if I used generative AI to ask for help when playing it? So for example,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: GenAI, help, Vegas
Creating Human-Readable Summaries of Data with Google PaLM Generative AI / / No Comments 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 → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: creating, data, Generative, Google, HumanReadable, palm, Summaries
Building a Generic RSS Parser Service with Cloudflare Workers / / No Comments About once every three months I’ll write a quick JavaScript demo and attempt to fetch someone’s RSS feed… and then remember that the vast majority of RSS feeds don’t specify a CORS header to allow remote scripts to load them. I know this – and yet I still tend to forget. I thought it would be kind of fun to build a serverless API via Cloudflare Workers to handle loading, parsing, and returning a RSS feed with CORS allowed. I figured this would be pretty easy, but I ran into a snag right away. Workers and NPM Modules # Cloudflare Workers is Node.js compatible… with some issues. Cloudflare has a documentation page on it addressing what you may run into, and for... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Cloudflare, Generic, Parser, service, workers
How to Get the Current Branch Name with git / / No Comments Most developers spoil themselves with fun command line utilities to make their work easier and more efficient. One such command line helper allows developers to always show the git branch in the command line. How can you get the current branch? With this handy snippet: git branch --show-current It’s great to keep this snippet around for any automation you may create moving forward! The post How to Get the Current Branch Name with git appeared first on David Walsh Blog. David Walsh Blog… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Branch, Current, name
Using Cloudflare’s AI Workers to Add Translations to PDFs / / No Comments Late last month, Cloudflare announced new AI features in their (already quite stellar)Workers platform. I’ve been a big fan of their serverless feature (see my earlier posts) so I was quite excited to give this a try myself. Before I begin, I’ll repeat what the Cloudflare folks said in their announcement: "Usage is not currently recommended for production apps". So with that in mind, remember that what I’m sharing today may change in the future. The Demo # Before I get into the code, let me share what I’ve built. Now, at the time I wrote this, Cloudflare’s AI stuff was still in beta and there is no cost yet for using the features. This is, obviously, going... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Cloudflare's, PDFs, Translations, using, workers
AutoSave with VSCode / / No Comments Visual Studio Code has taken the crown of most used text editor, at least in JavaScript spheres. VSCode is fast, feature-filled, and supports thousands of plugins to boost productivity. Developers can also tweak hundreds of settings to enrich functionality. One such feature is the autoSave feature. A few months ago I changed my editor setup to autosave code as I type. Every app works that way, code editors should too. I recently had to disable it briefly. Feels so backwards to explicitly press Save via cmd+s. Here is how you can change VS Code to auto save: pic.twitter.com/qmjUBXNX35 — Christoph Nakazawa (@cpojer) October 18, 2023 To autoSave files with VS Code, you can add the... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: AutoSave, VSCode
Using Google PaLM to Gather Sentiment Analysis on a Forum / / No Comments I’ve really been enjoying working with Google’s PaLM 2 AI API and this week I used it to build a pretty interesting demo I think. What if we could use the generative AI features of PaLM to determine the ‘sentiment’ or general health of a forum? I was able to do so and I think the results are pretty interesting. I’ll remind my readers I’m still fairly new to this, so please reach out if you’ve got suggestions on how to do this better, or found any big mistakes in my implementation. Ok, let’s get started! Sentiment Analysis # In my first post on Google’s PaLM API, I talked about how their "MakerSuite" was a really cool web-based UI... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Analysis, Forum, Gather, Google, palm, Sentiment, using
Texting Email Summaries using Google PaLM AI and Twilio / / No Comments Yesterday I shared my initial impressions of working with Google’s PaLM 2 AI API. If you didn’t read that article, the tldr is that it’s incredibly easy to work with and I was able to get some Node.js code running in minutes. Exactly the kind of experience you want new developers to have with your product. Based on how easy it was to do that, I thought about building a real prototype of how the service could be used. What It Does # My simple prototype is based on the idea of handling an influx of emails. Imagine a support address or other important email address used for a company. If there is a lot of email coming in, or if the emails that do come in are critically important,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: email, Google, palm, Summaries, Texting, Twilio, using