Community NYU ITP Camp 2025, week 1 A recap of the sessions I've led at ITP Camp 2025 thus far. AI coding and records, of course.
Your periodic reminder of the impermanence of all things Don't read this if you plan to live forever.
AI Oops all BK: NYU ITP in June NYU ITP Summer Camp starts again next week. I'm pondering what sessions I might facilitate.
Community Astoria Tech Meetup, late May Astoria Tech Meetup goings-on. Within is a partial recap of last week's event, as well as links for you to RSVP for our hack session coming up this week.
Val Town Prototype Showcase I've written about Val Town (a few times before). But it doesn't seem I've ever mentioned that the prototype of Collxn was written as a val. I'm a huge fan of the service for rapid ideation and prototyping. For a hackers-and-painters developer,
Fitness The short answer? A lot of bullshit. Wherein I feel ways about not being able to script through my own health data
Collxn Collxn I'm working on something new to help me explore my record collection in new ways. I think other collectors may find it fun too.
Community WE HAVE APOSTROPHES Y'ALL Some updates for Subcurrent, an open source service that creates a stream of content from the Astoria tech community.
AI If you didn't have a question, don't subject yourself to an endless stream of answers With LLMs, looking for the big picture or seeking the pros, cons, and white space in and around my path of inquiry is really all on me as the human.
AI No cloud required: local LLMs as a practical app dependency TL;DR: Ollama on a MacBook Air with M4 is great and it's a taste of the future. Developers should try it now.
Product Management Gall's law "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."
RSS Subcurrent RSS bot for Discord Subcurrent now posts RSS updates to Discord. Will it spark discussion around the content?
Social Media Facebook → /dev/null Wherein 9 years after I decide to do so, I delete my Facebook account.
Community Subcurrent Subcurrent brings together content from Astoria Tech community members into a single web page and RSS feed.
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.
