Weather Nerd? Check out My OSX Radar Widget

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I know I’m not alone in being a bit of a weather nerd. Along with four or five weather apps on my phone, I’ve got two physical devices in my office that show the weather and a weather widget on my Mac that shows the day’s forecast. That’s not enough. What I really wanted was a radar widget as well, so I built one: Ok, to be fair, I used Cursor to build it – but it really scratched an itch I’ve had for a while to constantly have one more thing to distract me. If you want a copy of this yourself (or want to make it better!), I’ve set up a GitHub repo here: https://github.com/cfjedimaster/precipradar. I’ve got both the source as well as a build... more →
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Using Generative AI to Check for Spam

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A few days ago I wrote up an exploration I did in Spam APIs, "Spam APIs in 2024". After working on those demos and writing up my findings, I thought it might be interesting to see how a generative AI tool, like Googele’s Gemini would handle such a task. Initial Tests # So – once again – I’m a broken record on this – but I fired up AI Studio first to give it some quick tests. I began with this prompt: Given the following text, rate how much it appears to be spam by giving it a score between 1 and 10, with 10 being the most likely the content is spam. For my first test, I used a ‘bad’ sample (see my last post for a full listing of my sample data): 💪... more →
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