Let’s Build a Web App for Pinecone

Yesterday I blogged about Pinecone’s excellent RAG as a service system for quickly building generative AI systems: "Checkout Pinecone for Serverless RAG". It was so easy, I decided to take a look into what it would take to build a "real" application around their service. With that in mind, I whipped up a quick Flask application to demo just that. I’m still very new to Flask, so take this with a grain of salt, and design isn’t my strong point, but who cares, let’s dig in! First off, a quick reminder of what I demonstrated yesterday. I used Pinecone’s Python SDK to: Create an "Assistant", which you can think of as a collection of documents. I... more →
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Next CodeBreak – Let’s AI!

Hey folks! One of the things I promised to do better with the Code Break show was scheduling. With that being said, I’m here to announce the next event and I’ve got about 4 already on the calendar after that. Hopefully this year I can get a bit more consistent with schedule. That being said, we’ll see. Life is crazy at times. 😉 Ok, with that out of the way, my next session is Tuesday, January 21, at 12PM CST. I’ll be talking about AI, specifically Generative AI, with a focus on Google Gemini, but also client-side stuff as well (with Chrome’s built-in support and Transformers.js). I imagine this topic will cover two or more sessions. We’ll see how much I... more →
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Let’s Map Traffic Incidents… Again

This blog has been around for a while (twenty one years currently) so it isn’t too uncommon for me to revisit old topics and demos and rebuild them. I think today’s post may be something of an outlier though. Way back in 2010, early 2010, I built a Proof of Content 911 Viewer that wrapped a local police department’s web site, lafayette911.org. Note the cute disclaimer at the bottom of the site saying you have to ask permission to link to it. Tell me you don’t know how the internet works without telling me you don’t know how it works. Anyway, back in 2010 I used Yahoo Pipes (pour one out for a cool as heck web service) to scrape the data and store it in a database.... more →
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Google Maps for Android now lets you set an ‘app language’ that differs from device settings – 9to5Google

Google Maps for Android now lets you set an ‘app language’ that differs from device settings  9to5Google Google rolls out support for ‘app language’ for Google Maps  Gadgets Now Google Maps now allows a different in-app language to be set  Android Police Google Maps Now Lets You Set App Language Different From Device Settings  Android Headlines Google Maps for Android Now Lets You Change In-App Language Without Affecting the Phone’s Settings  News18 View Full Coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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Google Maps lets you manage your public profile from the Android app – Engadget

Google Maps lets you manage your public profile from the Android app  Engadget Google Maps Has Super App Ambitions  Morning Brew Google Maps Finally Lets Users Edit Their Public Profiles via the App  NDTV Google Maps app finally lets you manage your own profile  PhoneArena Google Maps Now Lets You Control What’s Public From Within The App  Mashable India View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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Google’s updated Maps app lets you bike, train, ride-share there – Fox Business

Google’s updated Maps app lets you bike, train, ride-share there  Fox Business Google Maps will now let users combine transit directions with biking and ride-sharing  The Verge Google Maps finally lets you plan ‘mixed modes’ travel  Mashable Google Maps announces new “Mixed Modes” tool for multi-part commutes  USA TODAY Google Maps Introduces Its “Mixed Modes” Function for Multipart Journeys  HYPEBEAST View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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Google now lets you order food without a delivery app – The Verge

Google now lets you order food without a delivery app  The Verge Hey! Google Search, Maps and Assistant Apps Now Help Deliver Your Meals  The Spoon Google Assistant, Maps And Search Now Let You Order Food Sans App  Hot Hardware You can order food with Google Assistant, Search, and Maps without needing delivery apps  XDA Developers Quit downloading too many apps: Google now lets you order food directly via Search & Maps  Economic Times View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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