Next Code Break - December 5th

Hello friends. The next, and final (for the year!) Code Break will be Tuesday, December 17th, one week from today. I've got some surprises in store and would love to use this last session to answer questions from my audience. If you've got a question you would like me (and others - oh wait, that's part of the surprise!) to answer, leave me a...

Generative AI and documents is a fairly common topic these days, typically in the form of creating summaries or asking questions about the documents. I was curious how generative AI could help in terms of classification. Way back in January of this year, I blogged about using Google's Gemini API to classify images based on whether they were a...

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending, and speaking at, connect.tech. One of the cooler presentations I saw was from Danielle Maxwell where she discussed usingAI in the browser and introduced me to Transformers.js. I'd heard of this before, but wasn't quite aware of how easy it was to use. While this isn't necessarily going to replace a...

Hello folks - I'm a week or so behind on my schedule for these posts, but the last few weeks have been incredibly hectic. I had 5 or so (I've lost track honestly) online presentations and one in-person event at connect.tech, and of course, this week was Thanksgiving. I'm also behind on scheduling for my show, which I hope to fix up later today....

A few months back, I took a look at using JSON-LD to turn a recipe web page into pure data: Scraping Recipes Using Node.js, Pipedream, and JSON-LD. This relied on a recipe actually using JSON-LD in the header to describe itself, which is pretty common for SEO purposes. Still, I was curious as to how well generative AI could solve this problem. In...