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
Automating Mastodon Postings with ColdFusion / / No Comments I’ve had a lot of fun building Mastodon bots (see my list of super-important business critical bots as an example), typically using the Pipedream platform, and more recently, Cloudflare Workers. The Mastodon API is kinda stupid easy and with "The Other Network" going to hell in a handbasket, I don’t see myself building bots anywhere else. Just yesterday I came home from the Adobe ColdFusion Summit and I thought it would be fun to see how easy it would be to build a Mastodon bot in ColdFusion. Here’s what I was able to do in roughly ten minutes. First, don’t forget that to add automation to a Mastodon account, you need to go into your preferences, select the "Development"... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, ColdFusion, Mastodon, Postings
Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript / / No Comments It’s rare that I’m disappointed by the JavaScript language not having a function that I need. One such case was summing an array of numbers — I was expecting Math.sum or a likewise, baked in API. Fear not — summing an array of numbers is easy using Array.prototype.reduce! const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]; const sum = numbers.reduce((a, b) =a + b, 0); The 0 represents the starting value while with a and b, one represents the running total with the other representing the value to be added. You’ll also note that using reduce prevents side effects! I’d still prefer something like Math.sum(...numbers) but a simple reduce will do! The post Sum an Array of Numbers... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Array, JavaScript, numbers
How to Detect Failed Requests via Web Extensions / / No Comments One of the best things that ever happened to t he user experience of the web has been web extensions. Browsers are powerful but extensions bring a new level of functionality. Whether it’s crypto wallets, media players, or other popular plugins, web extensions have become essential to every day tasks. Working on MetaMask, I am thrust into a world of making everything Ethereum-centric work. One of those functionalities is ensuring that .eth domains resolve to ENS when input to the address bar. Requests to https://vitalik.ethnaturally fail, since .eth isn’t a natively supported top level domain, so we need to intercept this errant request. // Add an onErrorOccurred event via the... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Detect, Extensions, Failed, Requests
Guess the (Marvel) Decade / / No Comments Many years ago, I first wrote up my experience working with the Marvel API. I find myself returning to it again and again, and this weekend I built a fun little game I think you may enjoy. It’s called "Guess the Decade". Marvel’s art style has changed drastically over its long history. Back in 2018, I shared a demo that demonstrates just how much variety you can get just by looking at covers. So for example, Spider-Man in 1962: Versus 1988: And then 2018: Given that there’s such a variety of styles, I thought it would be fun to build a demo. If you want, you can just right to the game, but here’s how I built it. The Backend # For the backend, I built a serverless... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Decade, Guess, Marvel
Welcome to the New LimeWire: AI Media Generation (Sponsored) / / No Comments LimeWire was a staple of my youth. LimeWire was software that allowed users to share any type of file during the revolutionary days of file sharing. Fast forward to today and LimeWire is back, again as revolutionary software, but this time in the field of AI content publishing. From creating images to music and video, and then monetizing that media, LimeWire continues to be a hub of creativity! Quick Hits LimeWire has re-launched as an AI-focused content publishing & community platform LimeWire AI Studio is now live for AI Image Generation! Generative AI music & video coming soon! Automatically mint AI-generated content as NFTs on the Polygon and Algorand blockchains LimeWire has an... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Generation, LimeWire, Media, Sponsored, Welcome