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Please take what follows with a Titanic-sized grain of salt and do your best not to do what I did, but despite that, I thought this little hack was interesting and I figured I'd share it anyway. I typically use Reveal.js for my presentations, especially when talking about the web platform, as it makes it easy to do slides and demos, all in my...

The last seven days have been... difficult. I don't think I need to go into why (even for my non-American readers), but I am doing my best, as are a lot of people, to take things day by day. Honestly, as a white hetero man, I'm not so much worried for myself, but I'm deeply concerned about my family and friends who are LGBTQ+ and other...

A few days ago, I blogged about using Chrome's built-in generative AI features (which are still super duper too early to even consider for production) to add on-device translation capabilities to a web app. It got me thinking, what if we could do translation automatically via a web component? If for some reason it failed, that would be fine as...

Hey folks - my next will not be this Tuesday as I'll be presenting at API World (assuming American gets me there today) so I've pushed back the livestream till Thursday, November 7th. Usual time - 12PM CST. You can read more about the event here:https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-11072024/I'm going to be discussing Eleventy and building a basic...

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")...