Scheduling Code in BoxLang / / No Comments While I was busy getting utterly overwhelmed by deep AI talks at Arc of AI this week, BoxLang released it’s third release candidate, and while there’s multiple goodies in there, the schedular is the one that interests me the most. Currently the only docs are in the release notes, but there’s enough information there to get started. Here’s a quick look at what’s been added. First off – just in case it isn’t obvious, the idea here is to write code that can execute by itself on some predefined schedule. There’s multiple different use cases for this – performing backups, refreshing data from an API, logging stats and so forth. In BoxLang, scheduled... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang, code, Scheduling
The History Quiz Map! / / No Comments Journey Through Time: Test Your Knowledge with “1000 Years”!Are you a history buff? Do you love maps? If so, get ready for an exciting adventure through time with 1000 Years! This engaging map-based game challenges your knowledge of world history by asking you to guess the years of significant events.What is “1000 Years”?”1000 Years” is a unique educational game that combines geography and Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: History, Quiz
Links For You (4/5/25) / / No Comments Not going to lie, this has been a long week. I gave two presentations at Arc of AI, one of which needed to big updates as Chrome changed their API a day before my presentation. To be fair, the browser AI stuff is in development and the changes were good, but I had to scramble a bit. I’m exhausted (for this and other reasons) so let’s just skip right to the links, shall we? Search with Video and Algolia A few days ago, Algolia had a small virtual developer conference with one of the most fascinating presentations I’ve seen. Tim Carry described how he built a tool to index and search short videos from YouTube. The number of different tools and things he did to build this little... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 4/5/25, links
Donald Trump Surrenders the World to China / / No Comments The China Index is an interactive map that ranks the expanding influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) across the globe. Using 99 distinct indicators – from media sponsorships to academic partnerships – the index tracks Beijing’s deepening reach, updated annually to highlight its accelerating dominance.The map ranks countries around the world based on how much they are under the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: China, Donald, Surrenders, Trump, World
Watch me suffer with React more in tomorrow’s Code Break! / / No Comments So my last Code Break was… painful. My experience trying to learn React did not go well. Because of that I thought strongly about giving up, but what fun would that be? Join me tomorrow (March 18th) at 12PM CST where I’ll, once again, try to learn some basic React features and get a trivial web site built. Will I make it? Probably not! But you can come join me and cheer/heckle me on! I hope to see you there: https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-03182025/ Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Break, code, More, React, suffer, tomorrow's, Watch
Free TV & Radio Maps / / No Comments tvgarden is an interactive map that brings the world of live television to your fingertips. Inspired by the long running success of Radio Garden (which allows users to explore global radio stations through an interactive 3D map,) tvgarden applies the same concept to television, offering a seamless and engaging way to watch live TV from around the world.Features and User ExperienceOne of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: free, maps, Radio
Creating Images with Generative AI via Conversation / / No Comments Last week, I blogged about updates to Google’s Gemini APIs in regards to image generation. That post detailed how there are now two models for generating images with the experimental Gemini Flash model having a nice free tier. One of the interesting features of the API is the ability to edit existing images, in other words, pass an image to Gemini and via a prompt, have Gemini update it. I thought it would be kind of fun to see if I could build a ‘chat’ interface for this model, one where you could simply talk to Gemini and have it work on your image along with you. Now to be clear, this is no different than what you can do now at the Gemini website, but I figured it would give... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Conversation, creating, Generative, images
The 2025 Australian Election Map / / No Comments Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, announced that the next Australian federal election will be held on May 3. The leader of the center-left Labor Party currently holds a very slim majority in Parliament. To achieve a majority government in the next Parliament, a party must win at least 76 seats out of 150 in the House of Representatives. If no party reaches this Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 2025, Australian, election