My Last Spotify Demo (this time I mean it – honest) / / No Comments Earlier this month, I blogged about building my own Spotify Unwrapped. I did this by requesting a data export from Spotify and playing around with the data in Python and Astro. I built a simple, and probably bad, Astro site to view my stats. When I built it, I had an idea for a slight tweak to make it a bit better, but one that would require API usage. I stand by what I said about not wanting to use the API anymore (feel free to ask why in the comments), but I couldn’t resist tinkering one more time. Here’s what I did. Using Python to Enhance Artist Info In the output from Spotify’s export, you get a detailed listing of the tracks you’ve listened to. As a reminder, here’s... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Demo, honest, last, mean, Spotify, this, time
Quick Demo of Chrome’s Summarization GenAI (Upcoming) API / / No Comments I’ve blogged a few times recently about Google’s AI on Chrome initiative to bring AI features to the browser itself. Yesterday, my Code Break episode was specifically on this topic: Play Video In that session, I talk specifically about the Summarizer API, which does… wait for it… summarization. (It also covers the Writer and Rewriter API which I covered… woah, way back in September of last year: "Using Chrome AI to Rewrite Text") One interesting aspect of the API is that it offers multiple types of summarization: key points (the default) tl;dr teaser headline You can also request three different lengths: short medium (default) long According... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Chrome's, Demo, GenAI, Quick, Summarization, Upcoming
Next , and Vote For My AI Demo! / / No Comments Greetings, programs. This is just a quick note about my <Code><Br> show. Usually the show goes on every two weeks, but with the holiday this week I pushed it off to September 17th. You can find the details and RSVP here: "Parks and Recreation – Using Leaflet and the NPS" As the link says, this will be another stream involving Leaflet, which I’ve been having a hell of a lot of fun with the last few weeks. I hope to see you there! And then on a completely different topic, I’ve entered the Gemini API Developer Competition and honestly, I’ve probably got no chance to actually win, but I’d love for you to take a look at my entry, Content Assistant,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Demo, Next, Vote