Creating a GenAI Document Summarization Workflow in ColdFusion / / No Comments So this post comes from – I’m mostly sure – me forgetting to show a simple, but powerful demo at my presentation recently at the ColdFusion Summit. It’s nice and simple, but pretty darn useful so I decided to write a quick blog post about it and highlight the code. What’s a Document Workflow? Simply put, a document workflow is any process you would use to handle incoming documents. As an example, and one I’ve built many times over the past few years, you can use a workflow to convert all your incoming documents into PDF for easier handling. pdfRest has APIs for this and I’ll likely share a demo of them soon. (ColdFusion itself can convert HTML, PPTX,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: ColdFusion, creating, Document, GenAI, Summarization, Workflow
My Experience Asking GenAI to Design My Blog / / No Comments What was my experience using GenAI tools to design my blog? Well, you’re looking at it! As I mentioned last week, my new design came from one of my experiments using GenAI to help me design a new theme, but I wanted to share a bit more about the experience when I had time, and that time is now. About two or so months ago, I had the idea of testing out GenAI to create themes for small web apps. While my blog is actually huge (near seven thousand pages), design wise it’s basically: A home page A post page A "everything else" page That’s just three basic pages, all sharing a main layout with slight differences in what’s the main content of the page. I thought... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Asking, blog, design, Experience, GenAI
Using GenAI to Create a SDK from Sample Code / / No Comments I’ve been experimenting more and more with AI-assisted coding (not gonna call it vibe coding, even when I do), and the results have been incredibly interesting. Today, I decided to try something interesting – generating a SDK for an API. There are multiple tools out there that can convert an OpenAPI specification to an SDK (and those tools I’ve seen are pretty darn cool), but I wanted to attempt another route. Earlier this month I blogged about the new Foxit PDF APIs I’m working with. These APIs are all really simple, which is good of course, but when prepping for the release, I wanted to build code samples for every possible operation. I did so, and they’re up in... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: code, create, from, GenAI, Sample, using
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
Automating Media Asset Creation with Cloudinary’s GenAI Transformations / / No Comments I’ve been happily using Cloudinary on my blog for a few years now, but it’s been quite some time since I’ve blogged about them. For folks who don’t know, CLoudinary provides media APIs (image, video) that work via URLs. So for example, I can craft a Cloudinary URL that transforms a picture to resize it to a particular size. Or add text. Or compress it. Pretty much anything you can imagine doing with an image or a video, and probably a lot of things you can’t think of, are all possible, and literally enabled by crafting a particular URL. It’s shockingly powerful and easy at the same time. More recently, they announced a set of AI capabilities, including – Generative... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Asset, Automating, Cloudinary's, creation, GenAI, Media, Transformations
Turn Your Weather into Poetry with GenAI / / No Comments I was struggling to get some real, productive work done (I just got back from a trip in Europe) and I thought I’d tackle something that’s been in my queue for a little while now. This is, yet again, one of my "bad ideas" that you should probably not ever use in production, but it was fun, it made me happy, and you get to see the kind of silliness I do when I’m trying to distract myself. The idea was simple – given a forecast, how well could generative AI transform it into something more fun, like poetry? As I usually do, I opened up Google’s AI Studio and tried it there first. I began with a system instruction: Given a forecast, rewrite it in poetry. Return... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: GenAI, into, Poetry, Turn, Weather
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
Creating a Content Assistant with Gemini and GenAI / / No Comments One of the use cases for generative AI that I’ve discussed before is the idea of using the tool to aid in the writing process. I’m not talking about creating content so much as creating suggestions and providing feedback about the content you yourself have created. This past weekend I worked on a "general purpose" tool with this in mind and thought I’d share it to get your feedback. ("You" being the smart readers of this blog who keep me honest when I show something stupid. 😉 The Application # The application itself is rather straightforward. It asks two questions – first, what are you trying to accomplish with your writing and what are the desired... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Assistant, Content, creating, Gemini, GenAI