Using Val Town and Gemini for Sports Ball Stuff / / No Comments This is trivial as heck as the kids say, but I really want to explore Val Town more this year and I thought of a great, and simple use for it. Both my wife and I are big Saints fans (this is their year, honest) and attend most of the games. If they’re not playing at home, we’re absolutely watching it on TV. We both really enjoy watching football, but honestly, not enough to watch ESPN and follow the news. I thought – why not simply get a summary of NFL news from the past week and build an automation of it? I had this running in less than ten minutes with Val Town. First, the code makes use of Google’s Node SDK for working with Gemini. I setup my environment variable first... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Ball, Gemini, Sports, Stuff, Town, using
JavaScript Clipboard Stuff / / No Comments Forgive the somewhat vague title, but I wanted to point folks to a series of articles I’ve had published on the Frontend Masters blog the past few weeks. I started writing for them recently, and while I note my "external writing" on my About page, I wanted to specifically call out this series. Over three articles, I discuss reading and writing to the clipboard with JavaScript as well as working with paste events: Reading from the Clipboard in JavaScript Writing to the Clipboard in JavaScript Handling Paste Events in JavaScript That last article is an updated version of a post of mine from July, but it’s got some new material in it so I definitely recommend checking it... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Clipboard, JavaScript, Stuff