Links For You (12/28/24) / / No Comments Welcome to the last Links For You for 2024. Believe it or not, I started this series way back in April of 2022, and I don’t know about you, but it’s been one of my favorite features of my blog. I love sharing cool links (and music videos!) with readers, and I hope yall have enjoyed it as well. This is my second to last post for the year so there’s still a bit more content coming, but for now, let’s get into the cool stuff! An Alpine.js Bluesky RSS Reader Folks know I love Alpine.js, and this first post is a great example of why. Andy Jarrett demonstrates how he built a RSS reader of his Bluesky profile using Alpine.js. It’s relatively simple to do so, and one of... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: 12/28/24, links
Classifying Documents with Generative AI / / No Comments Generative AI and documents is a fairly common topic these days, typically in the form of creating summaries or asking questions about the documents. I was curious how generative AI could help in terms of classification. Way back in January of this year, I blogged about using Google’s Gemini API to classify images based on whether they were a photo, screenshot, or meme: "Using GenAI to Classify an Image as a Photo, Screenshot, or Meme". That actually worked well and I thought perhaps it could work with text as well. Specifically: Your organization gets an influx of documents, lets say many per day… And you would like to categorize them for sorting/processing later Before... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Classifying, documents, Generative
Santa’s Big Adventure Tracker / / No Comments 🎅 Santa’s Big Adventure: Follow Him Around the World! 🌍It’s Christmas Eve—the most magical night of the year—and guess what? Santa is already zooming around the world, delivering gifts to kids just like YOU! 🎁 This year, you can join in the fun and track Santa’s incredible journey using some super cool Santa Trackers! 🎄✨ 🌟 The Snow-Globe Santa Tracker 🌟Imagine this: a magical snow-globe Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: adventure, Santa's, tracker
Automating Object Detection with Google Gemini GenAI and Pipedream / / No Comments For my last technical post of the year (although I can’t promise I’ll stop blogging!), I wanted to share an interesting workflow I built using Google Gemini and Pipedream. The idea was somewhat simple – how difficult would it be to build a "general purpose" workflow to look for objects in images and trigger an alert if certain things were found. Here’s what I was able to build. Step One – Image Input In my mind, I imagined this workflow would be tied to some service that was either streaming in video or generating still images. You could image a security camera posting new pictures every 30 seconds or so, or some other system that takes a picture at a regular... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Automating, Detection, Gemini, GenAI, Google, Object, Pipedream
The Taco Bell Interstate Map / / No Comments If you insist on only eating at a Taco Bell while driving cross-country then you need Think Outside the Bun. Think Outside the Bus is an interactive map of Taco Bell locations across the United States. For Taco Bell enthusiasts, this map is an invaluable tool, showing which states, cities, and even interstates offer the best access to affordable Mexican-inspired cuisine.The map uses the size of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bell, Interstate, Taco
In Search of My Next Role / / No Comments This week I discovered, unfortunately, that my position at Adobe has been eliminated. I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve achieved during my time at Adobe, but now need to find my next opportunity. If you’ve ever gained anything from one of my posts, or presentations, I’d absolutely love a recommendation or referral for a position in developer relations. I’m also looking for a role where I could mentor, or lead, a team of developer advocates/evangelists. So, if you know of a role, or have a role yourself, please reach out! Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Next, Role, search
Adding PDFs to Your Webpage without JavaScript / / No Comments Edited at 4:03PM to add a small note to the end. In my time at Adobe, one of the products I evangelized was the PDF Embed API, a JavaScript library for adding PDFs to a web page. I still recommend this library of course, but I was thinking this morning about how you could get similar results without JavaScript. Remember, you are allowed to build a web page and not ship any JavaScript. It’s ok, I won’t tell. Before looking at what I built, some context to why someone would use a library like Adobe’s PDF Embed: Browser’s have great built-in PDF support, natively, but the display is typically the entire page, which means you lose the context of the rest of your site. There’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, JavaScript, PDFs, Webpage, without
The Coldest Day of the Year / / No Comments Did you know the coldest day of the year doesn’t arrive at the same time for everyone in the U.S.? While Groveland, California, is shivering through its chilliest day today, parts of the East Coast are still weeks away from their coldest temperatures. This is because the coldest day of the year, on average, occurs at least a month earlier on the western seaboard than on the eastern seaboard of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Coldest, year