Building a Bluesky Sentiment Dashboard with Alpine and Chrome AI

Good morning, programs! Today I’m sharing yet another example of Chrome’s on-device AI features, this time to demonstrate a "Bluesky Sentiment Dashboard". In other words, a tool that lets you enter terms and then get a report on the average sentiment for posts using that word. I actually did this before (and yes, I forgot until about a minute ago) last year using Transformers.js: Building a Bluesky AI Sentiment Analysis Dashboard. I also built this for Twitter, before it went down the toilet, killed off API access, etc. etc., but I can’t seem to find it in my archives so maybe I’m hallucinating. That being said, earlier this week I thought I’d try building... more →
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Building a Bluesky AI Sentiment Analysis Dashboard

As the "Great Social Network Wars" carry on (my term, not anyone else), I’m finding myself more and more enjoying Bluesky. I do more posting on Mastodon, but Bluesky reminds me a lot more of early Twitter. Threads is… ok, but has felt too corporate. I can’t even remember the last time I checked it. Earlier this week, I was poking around the Bluesky API and was incredibly happy to discover that their Search API does not require a key and supports CORS, which means a simple client-side application could make use of it. In the past I had built similar tools for Twitter, back when it had a decent API, and I thought it might be fun to build something for Bluesky, specifically,... more →
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CarPlay dashboard gets third-party maps support in iOS 13.4 – The Verge

CarPlay dashboard gets third-party maps support in iOS 13.4  The Verge iOS 13.4 introduces CarPlay Dashboard support for third-party map apps  AppleInsider iOS 13.4: Apple’s CarPlay now allows third-party map apps to be used with the split-screen feature  PhoneArena Apple CarPlay gets support for third-party map apps  MSPoweruser Apple’s CarPlay to finally support third-party mapping apps  Critical Hit View Full Coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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