AI Zero to Deploy with Claude.ai and Val Town Today I streamed my first video on Twitch, showing how to use Anthropic's Claude.ai and Val Town to ship a small frontend web app.
AI Batch loading resources in EmbedJS for RAG A look at dynamically batch loading RAG resources with EmbedJS.
AI AI-powered fun in p5.js Using AI in p5.js by wiring up a sketch to a serverless proxy function on Val Town.
Node.js You're going to Val Town Val Town's runnable vals (their word for "gists") can be triggered manually, via email, or as an HTTP endpoint or cron job.
AI RAG in Node.js with EmbedJS A look at a Node.js library called EmbedJS for RAG AI applications along with a repo to help you get started.
Events NYU ITP Camp 2024 sessions NYU ITP Camp 2024 is underway. Here's Info on sessions I'm leading during the first week—one around vinyl, the other on AI.
DevRel The 3 Cs of Developer Advocacy The 3 Cs of Developer Advocacy state that, all things being equal, when hiring for Developer Advocates, we must look for 3 competencies: coding ability, community stewardship, and content creation.
AI DevRel and AI: a department lead’s self-evaluation one year in Reflecting on the past year's journey of integrating AI into our Developer Relations initiatives at Nylas, I'm taking a moment for self-assessment.
AI Using Nylas and OpenAI to triage email Solving email inbox triage with Nylas APIs and OpenAI GPT APIs.
DevRel Experimenting with AI in DevRel Using AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to enhance DevRel work, build inspiring code samples, and enhance developer experience.
Node.js Create an entity resource file for OAS Tools with Prisma Make an entity resource file with Prisma that can be used with OAS Tools to generate an Open API document and a Node.js/Express server.
Node.js gRPC: The front door for Node.js developers As I've been learning more about gRPC over the last couple of months, I've worked with a few resources that have been quite helpful. I'd like to share those here.
JavaScript Astoria Tech Meetup #22: Containerizing a Node.js app... LIVE! Our next virtual event is this week. We’ll be containerizing the Astoria Digital MuckRock project.
JavaScript Number sorting gotcha with JavaScript Problem: Sorted arrays are coming back in an unexpected order... sometimes. Safari is behaving differently than Chrome and Node.js. Let’s look at what to do.
Podcast I'd Rather Be Scripting, episode 1 Kerri Shotts and I started a little podcast called I'd Rather Be Scripting.
Community Astoria Tech Meetup #19: Streamlining with Docker Compose A virtual event coming up on Wednesday, August 26 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Node.js Spin up a Node.js/Express server and a Postgres database Quick steps to create a Node.js, Express, and Postgres playground.
JavaScript MuckRock API Looking at how to analyze basic health metrics of the FOIA request system using the MuckRock API.
JavaScript Fuzzy search with Fuse.js Helping users around spelling errors with fuss-free JavaScript library for fuzzy search.
Community Astoria Digital on Computerworld Our open source Volunteer Dispatch bot is available for use by other organizations.
DevRel Taking an in-person developer event online Is online-only the future of events? The good and the difficult in taking a developer event online.
Development Make a micro repo How splitting off into a micro repo can speed up your iterations and help you produce better results.