Using PDF Content with Google Gemini – An Update

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Way back in March of this year, I took a look at using Google’s Gemini APIs to analyze PDF documents ("Using PDF Content with Google Gemini"). At the time, the Gemini API didn’t support PDF documents, so I made use of our (Adobe) PDF Extract service to get the text content out from the document. This "worked" but was possibly less than ideal as my "glom all the text together" approach didn’t really represent the PDF well. The PDF Extract API returns information about text context (like if it is a header for example), but my method ignored that. I’m happy to share that Gemini now supports PDF files natively. Let’s take a look at how this... more →
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Using CSV Data with Leaflet

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As I continue to play with, and really freaking enjoy Leaflet, I thought it would be interesting to show a demo of using CSV data with it. This also coincides with an interesting dataset I got from the Data is Plural newsletter, a collection of datasets covering just about any topic you can imagine. A few weeks back, they shared ancient shipwrecks covering the years from 1500 BC to 1500 AD. I know, that’s a bit random, but I thought it was kinda cool. The dataset covers near two thousand unique shipwrecks and includes information, at times, about the cargo that was being carried. I thought this would be fun to map, and here’s how I did it. Working with CVS Disregarding the map, the... more →
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Quick Example using Azure’s Node.js SDK for Signed URLs

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Way back in June (wait, that’s only two months ago?) I wrote up a blog post showing how to use the AWS SDK for Signed URLs: "Quick example using AWS Node.js SDK V3 for Signed URLs". The idea for this was to cover a very specific set of functionality I needed to use along with Adobe’s Firefly Services. Specifically my needs are: Create a readable URL for a cloud storage asset Create a writable URL for a cloud storage asset And on top of that – also I needed to upload directly to cloud storage. I worked with Azure Storage Blob SDK and came up with the following functions. Honestly, use this with a grain of salt as it "worked for me", but I can’t make... more →
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Scraping Recipes Using Node.js, Pipedream, and JSON-LD

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It’s pretty well known now that most, if not all, recipes on the internet are 90% crap and 10% actual recipe, at best. Obviously, there are outliers of course and obviously, if you are sharing your recipes online you are free to do so as you see fit, but speaking for myself, when I click a link to a recipe my assumption is that I’m going to have to "work" to figure out where the actual details are amongst the humorous backstories and other tidbits that don’t actually tell you how to make what you’re trying to make. That’s why I love apps like Saffron. Not only is it incredibly minimal and laser-focused on recipes, it has an incredibly good "recipe... more →
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Using JSON Schema with Google Gemini

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Back about a month ago, I wrote up a post on how to generate JSON results using Google Gemini, "JSON Results with Google Gemini Generative AI API Calls". While you should read that post first, the process basically boiled down to: Setting the response type of the result to JSON. Without this, Gemini will return JSON but encoded in Markdown. Using a System Instruction to give directions on the "shape" of the JSON, i.e., use this key and that key. While these techniques work well, recently yet another feature was added that makes this even better, JSON schema support. JSON Schema is an abstract way to define the shape of JSON and can be really useful in validation. The website... more →
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Using the Gemini File API for Prompts with Media

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Using media in your prompts (what’s called ‘multimodal’) with the Gemini API is fairly simple in small cases. You can encode your input with base64 and pass it along with your prompt. While this works well, it’s got limitations that may be quickly hit – most specifically a file size limit of 20 megs. A few months ago, I shared a demo of using your device’s camera to detect cat breeds. With today’s cameras taking incredibly detailed pictures, I hit that limit right away and had to write some code to resize the image to a smaller size. Luckily, the Gemini API has a better way of handling that, the File API. The File API # This API provides a separate method... more →
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Using GenAI to Help Pick Your D & D Class

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A few weeks back I wrote up my experience with generative AI as a dungeon master. That post ended up being really popular and got me thinking about other ways I could integrate D & D, or other games, with Generative AI. With Gemini 1.5 now available via API, I thought it would be good to find an excuse to hit the API in a demo. So with that in mind, I’d like to introduce you to the Class Suggester. The Application # The app begins by simply presenting some introductory text and invites you to click a button to roll for your stats. You can hit the Roll Stats button as many times as you want. It uses the standard D & D rule of rolling a six-sided dice four times and removing the... more →
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Using Netlify Edge and Blob Support to Investigate Website Traffic

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For some time now, I’ve relied on my Netlify Analytics report to keep track of how well my site is doing, what content is popular, and so forth. I was a Google Analytics user for over ten years, but when they updated the UI, I saw red every time I tried to use it. Netlify Analytics is super simple and quick. (My only real complaint is that it’s limited to 30 days, but I’ve got free access to the feature so I’m happy to not care about that.) I complement Netlify Analytics with GoatCounter as well. Netify’s analytics show much more traffic than Goat, and I figure the truth is somewhere in the middle, and again, I’m fine with that. What’s odd though is that... more →
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