Using Chrome AI to Summarize Comic Books / / No Comments A few weeks back, I blogged about analyzing comic books with gen ai, and honestly, it worked really darn well. I extracted the pages with Python, and send them to Google Gemini to create the summary. I was naturally curious to see if this could be done entirely on device, using Chrome’s AI support. Here’s what I found. First, a reminder – a few days ago I updated my web-based comic book reader and described that process. The code I’m sharing today is built upon that first application, so if you missed that post, I’d strongly suggest reading it first. (And if you don’t want to miss any of my posts, don’t forget to subscribe!). How It Works Alright –... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Books, Chrome, Comic, Summarize, using
Testing with BoxLang / / No Comments One of the fun things about immersing myself in BoxLang these past few months is my expose to other products from Ortus. Most recently, I’ve been doing some contracting with a client that makes use of ColdBox, which for my non-CFML readers out there is probably the most well known, and probably most popular, framework for building enterprise web applications with ColdFusion. As part of that work, I’ve been integrating TestBox, a testing and mocking framework that works well with ColdBox, but also (somewhat recently, I think a month or so now), supports BoxLang as well. For the most part, "it just works", but as I was new to it, I did run into a few small issues I thought... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, Testing
Integrating Algolia with BoxLang / / No Comments I’ve been using Algolia for my search on this blog for years and absolutely love the service. At a high level, Algolia is a hosted search service that lets you easily create search indexes (think of it as a search optimized version of your content) while also providing easy libraries to add a search UI to your page itself. If you type in the search bar on top and perform a search, you’ll see this yourself. My site here is static, all simple flat files with no database, so a solution like Algolia is vital. I thought I’d take a look at integrating Algolia’s REST APIs with BoxLang and was able to build a quick demo in less than an hour. Here’s what I did. Initial Setup As... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Algolia, BoxLang, Integrating
My Experience Asking GenAI to Design My Blog / / No Comments What was my experience using GenAI tools to design my blog? Well, you’re looking at it! As I mentioned last week, my new design came from one of my experiments using GenAI to help me design a new theme, but I wanted to share a bit more about the experience when I had time, and that time is now. About two or so months ago, I had the idea of testing out GenAI to create themes for small web apps. While my blog is actually huge (near seven thousand pages), design wise it’s basically: A home page A post page A "everything else" page That’s just three basic pages, all sharing a main layout with slight differences in what’s the main content of the page. I thought... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Asking, blog, design, Experience, GenAI
Links For You (9/13/25) / / No Comments Yeah, I’m not even going to try to comment on this past week. I can say I had two interviews, which I think went well, and I finished some demos I’ve been working for a while, so that’s a positive. Outside of that, just want to not think too much about the state of things and focus on sharing awesome, nutritious links for you to enjoy. Intl and Segmenters You know me and you know I love the Intl API, so first up is a look at getting accurate text lengths using Intl and the Segmenter feature. This post comes to us from Sangeeth Sudheer with the nicely named "Automagic" blog. Flight Data to the Database Next up is an incredibly cool post that demonstrates streaming real-time... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 9/13/25, links
Time for something new… / / No Comments So, maybe you’re noticing a new look here. Or maybe this is your first time here. Either way, welcome to the new (and hopefully) improved raymondcamden.com, my little home on the internet. For the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing my experience using GenAI to generate a blog theme on my YouTube channel. My plan was to share those results here and ask folks which theme they thought would be best. I still plan on sharing those results here, but yesterday while frustrated and anxious, I decided, screw it, one theme really spoke to me, and it’s the one you see here. While I know I’ve still got stuff to fix here and there, I’m really happy with this update and I hope... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: new..., Something, time
Using Chrome’s Built-in AI to Improve AI Prompts / / No Comments Props for this article go to my best friend, Todd Sharp, who yesterday said something along the lines of, "Hey Ray, you should blog a demo of …" which is pretty much akin to bring out a laser pointer in front of a cat. Not only do I love getting ideas for new demos, his idea was actually pretty freaking brilliant, which means I get to pretend I’m brilliant as well. His idea was this: Given a user created prompt meant to be shipped off to a "proper" (i.e. maybe expensive) Generate AI API, can we use tools to help improve the prompt and make it "cheaper" before used. Given we’ve got AI in the browser via Chrome (ok, we will have it soon), this seemed... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Builtin, Chrome's, improve, Prompts, using
Adding a Web Debugger to BoxLang (First Version) / / No Comments This one’s been sitting in my "to do" blog queue for sometime now and I figured the beginning of spooky season (September 1 – don’t we all start celebrating Halloween then?) was a good excuse to finally kick this out the door. Many, many years ago I learned to love one of the simpler features of ColdFusion, the debugging output. This is a feature ColdFusion has probably had for near twenty or so plus years and while it’s not the same as a "full" debugging service (which also exists), or the powerhouse Fusion Reactor, it’s an incredibly simple way to look at what’s going on in your web application. It works by first enabling it (something... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, BoxLang, Debugger, first, version