Using Chrome AI for Translation

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I’ve done a couple blog posts now on Chrome’s efforts to bring generative AI to the browser. It’s still somewhat of a rough process (remember, you can sign up for access to test and learn more at the intro post from the Chrome engineers), but it’s getting better over time. One thing I mentioned in my last post ("Using Chrome AI to Rewrite Text") was how the Chrome team is shipping focused APIs for specific purposes, not just general Q and A. In that previous post, I demonstrated an example of the Rewriter API. As yet another example of this, you can now test out on device translation. As with everything else I’ve shared in this space, you should consider... more →
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Using Parallel Requests to Improve Web Performance

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Yesterday I blogged about a change I made to my bots page and in it, I mentioned how the performance wasn’t necessarily as good as it could be. I had made the decision to go from server-side and build-time for the page to a purely client-side solution. At the end of the post, I asked folks to let me know if anyone would like to have me work on that performance issue, and, honestly, it kept popping up in my head so I figured I should tackle it. Before I begin talking about what I changed, let me review what I had done, and what the issues are. The Current Solution You can go to the bots page yourself, but in general, this is the process: Given a list of bots… For each one, get the... more →
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Using Geocoding with Leaflet

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When I first started talking about Leaftlet, I mentioned how it was "only" a map library, and by that I mean, only able to present a view/wrapper around tiles representing map data. There’s a heck of a lot of services that Google Maps, HERE, and so forth, add on top that won’t be present, things like routing, geocoding, and more. Considering the fact that Leaflet is, again, "only" a client-side JavaScript library, that’s just a fact of life. But I’ve been thinking about how I could integrate Leaflet with such services, and I thought I’d share a demo of just that – adding geocoding to Leaflet. WTF is Geocoding? Simply put, geocoding is converting... more →
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Using Chrome AI to Rewrite Text

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Earlier this month, I discussed how Chrome’s upcoming built-in AI support was adding new features specifically tailored to certain use-cases. In that post, I looked at the Summarizer API. For today, I decided to take a look at the rewriter API. As a quick reminder, this is very early on, and if you want to try this yourself, you should hit the sign-up form and read the intro post from the Chrome folks first. Obviously, everything I’m going to show below probably will, almost certainly will, change before shipping. Ok, with that out of the way, let’s talk rewriting, specifically, how the Chrome API operates. Given a set of source input, the API can shorten, or lengthen the input,... more →
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Using Google Gemini’s File API with ColdFusion

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I promise, I’m not turning this back into a ColdFusion blog, but as I prepare my presentation next week at Summit and update my Google Gemini code for some ColdFusion demos, I ran into a particularly gnarly bit that I wanted to share in a post. For the most part, I’ve had no issues using Gemini’s REST APIs in ColdFusion, but the File API ended up being more difficult. If you go the documentation for uploading, and use the ‘Shell’ language tab, you can see an example like so: MIME_TYPE=$ (file -b --mime-type "$ {IMG_PATH_2}")NUM_BYTES=$ (wc -c < "$ {IMG_PATH_2}")DISPLAY_NAME=TEXTtmp_header_file=upload-header.tmp# Initial resumable request... more →
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Using Asynchronous Content in Leaflet Popups

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Today in my <Code><Br> stream (I’ll share a link to the video at the bottom), I spent some time digging into Leaflet and worked on a demo that made use of the National Parks Service API. This is a fun API I’ve used many times in the past, especially at my last job at HERE. For the stream today, I wanted to build the following: Create a map that loads a geojson file of NPS parks. The geojson file contains the code and name for each park. On clicking one of the markers, use the NPS API to get more information about the park. In general, I’ve found everything in Leaflet to be stupid easy, but this particular aspect turned out to be a bit more difficult, which of course... more →
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Using AI to Roast Your Photos

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Chalk this up as another of my "this is probably not a good idea, but it’s fun" blog posts. A few weeks back my buddy and ColdFusion Evangelist Mark Takata shared a fun little thing he did with GenAI – using it to roast himself. That immediately set me off on a quest to see just how much fun I could have with the idea. Now, to be clear, I do not like mean people. But having a disembodied set of code routines roast me? Sounds perfect. Back in December last year, I built an experiment where I used the device camera on a mobile web app and asked Google Gemini what kind of cat breed was in the picture: Using Generative AI to Detect Cat Breeds That experiment worked really well... more →
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Using the Chrome AI Summarizer (Early Look)

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I’ve looked at Chrome’s on-device GenAI development a few times now, and as a feature it is moving pretty fast. In fact, that first post and my follow up both don’t work anymore due to the API changing. I’m fine with that as I knew it was a bleeding edge feature, but I just want to warn folks ahead of time that everything you see here may, no, will change, probably a lot. As before though, I’m keep getting more and more excited about the possibilities here. I’m still not certain this will see the light of day (in mainline Chrome) or expand out to other browsers, but it’s quite interesting. Most recently, Google has added three new APIs to the feature: A... more →
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