Turning my Cursor Performance Work into a Repeatable Skill

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Yesterday, I wrote about using Cursor to review my blog for performance. Cursor (and again, for full disclosure I work here now 😉 did a dang good job of finding performance issues with my site, handling the huge size and various languages, platforms, and so forth. As I said, it worked well, but I wanted to look into making this more of a repeatable process. I’m saying "repeatable", not "automated", on purpose here. I can automate the process, but a full performance review feels much more like something I should run when I think it makes sense, for example, when I know I’ve tweaked my blog at the ‘code’ level versus writing cat-related blogs. I do... more →
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My First AI Skill for My Blog

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I’ve been a professional writer now for thirty plus years, and honestly, it’s one of the things I’m most proud about. When generative AI first exploded on the scene, a lot of people used it to help them write, and frankly, that wasn’t for me. I’m not the best writer, but I damn well know how to write and damn well know my own voice. That being said, I’ve been really interested in how GenAI can help with the process. I first wrote about this over two years ago: Using Generative AI as Your Content Assistant. In that post I talked about using GenAI for two very specific tasks: Helping with my titles Writing the description (which is part of the metadata for a... more →
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Hosting an Alexa Skill on Pipedream

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I’ve been a big fan of the Amazon Alexa developer experience for a few years now. I haven’t done any active skill (what they call apps) in a while, but I thought I’d take a quick look at what’s required to host a skill on Pipedream. While this won’t be a "How to build an Alexa skill" post, I will share a bit of background information about the process, because honestly it’s pretty dang cool. Raymond Camden… more →
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