Raymond Camden

I continue to be really against the term 'vibe coding', but also continue to be fascinated by the idea of working with GenAI to help craft/enhance applications in an iterative, conversation-based manner. Ashley Willis recently released an incredibly well done post on the topic, "What Even Is Vibe Coding?", where she goes into detail on her take on the term and what it means for the industry. I think it is an excellent post and I want to highlight one part that really resonated with me:

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Last week I attended and spoke at Into the Box, a conference hosted by the Ortus folks, the company behind BoxLang. While there, I attended a talk from Brad Wood on how BoxLang's module system works. I've been using modules with BoxLang since I first started playing with it. It's how database support is added, mail, PDF, and more. You can see a list of currently released modules here. I had been curious as to how this works so I was excited for Brad's presentation. While hearing him go over the details, I got even more excited, and literally built a 'hello world' module in a minute or so while he talked.

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I've done a few posts where I've asked GenAI services to analyze and summarize data. Most recently, I blogged about Chrome's built-in AI APIs and summarizing raw data into simple English. In each case where I've done work like this, I've had access to the raw data of what I want the API to analyze. But what if you don't? What if all you have is a simple chart image? I did some testing with this and here's what I found.

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Happy Saturday, Happy Pre-May the 4th, and happy "I don't have to beg for a job anymore". Yep, I've got a job. I'm going to be announcing where and what later this month when I start, but, finally, I can stop the hunt. Oh, and the crippling fear and despair being gone is an added bonus. So, happy day! Let's get to the links.

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I am 100% against the term "vibe coding". To be clear, my issue is with the name, it just strikes me as, well, horrible. That being said, I've been using gen AI to generate code samples over the past few months and it's been incredibly interesting at times. It absolutely requires technical skill to evaluate the results and to help guide the AI when mistakes happen, but it's been fun to give this a few tries recently.

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Hey folks, after a break last month (for reasons), I'm happy to announce that Code Break is back on schedule. I'm ditching any further exploration of React for now, but instead turning my attention to something I think is really fun - building desktop apps. This first session will focus on a JavaScript-based framework while my next one will cover using Python.

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It has been quite some time since I wrote about Eleventy. My last post was a quick announcement about me upgrading my site to Eleventy 3.0 and how well that worked. I was going through my list of blog ideas and realized that in March of 2022, yes, 2022, I wrote down that I should take a quick look at Eleventy Fetch:

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