URL Rewriting with BoxLang MiniServer

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BoxLang recently released it’s 1.4 version, and one of the cooler parts of that update was many improvements to MiniServer. MiniServer is a lightweight web server that makes it easy to spin up and test BoxLang web applications. Updates in the last version included automatic .env loading (which is coming soon to the boxlang CLI as well), websocket support, health checks, and more, but the one I care the most about is URL Rewriting support. Rewrite support is fairly simple. To turn it on, pass --rewrites when running boxlang-miniserver. This will use the file index.bxm for any request that doesn’t match a file (no matter what the extension). You can also specify a particular file as... more →
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Using AI in the Browser for Typo Rewriting

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Last week I gave a presentation on Chrome’s new built-in AI support (I’ll link the video at the end) and it’s gotten me inspired to consider new and different ways these APIs can be used to enhance the user experience. These APIs still aren’t quite ready for production use, and it’s absolutely possible we may never see these in Safari or Firefox, but the possibility of using them to enhance an application where available is exciting. For today, I want to share an interesting use case that occurred to me a few weeks ago. One of the APIs being built is a translation API (along with a language detection) API as well. In general the idea here is to go from one language... more →
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