Links For You (12/14/24)

For my last technical post of the year (although I can't promise I'll stop blogging!), I wanted to share an interesting workflow I built using Google Gemini and Pipedream. The idea was somewhat simple - how difficult would it be to build a "general purpose" workflow to look for objects in images and trigger an alert if certain things were found....

Earlier this month I took my first look at using Transformers.js, a JavaScript SDK around multiple different models hosted by Hugging Face. My initial experiments worked pretty OK I think. The sentiment analysis felt pretty good, and the object detection (with a cat demo of course), worked pretty good as well. I was curious how well summarization...

In my time at Adobe, one of the products I evangelized was the PDF Embed API, a JavaScript library for adding PDFs to a web page. I still recommend this library of course, but I was thinking this morning about how you could get similar results without JavaScript. Remember, you are allowed to build a web page and not ship any JavaScript. It's ok,...

Last year I did a fun little experiment where I asked a few different generative models to generateimages based on the classic Twelve Days of Christmas song. For those unfamiliar, the song is about a series of gifts given over twelve days:partridge in a pear treetwo turtle dovesthree French hensfour calling birdsfive golden ringssix geese...

This week I discovered, unfortunately, that my position at Adobe has been eliminated. I'm incredibly proud of what I've achieved during my time at Adobe, but now need to find my next opportunity. If you've ever gained anything from one of my posts, or presentations, I'd absolutely love a recommendation or referral for a position in developer...