I'm a developer advocate who loves the web platform, APIs, AI, and basically just anything involving code. I love to write about technology and share that with others. I've got fun stuff to show you and I'm so happy you're here!
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For the past two years I've done a fun little expirement - using GenAI to create illustrations from the Twelve Days of Christmas song. You can check out the 2023 and 2024 editions to see how things have progressed. In previous years, I mostly just kept things simple - passing only the day's gift as the prompt:
Today's blog post came to me on the way to dropping of my kids at school and made complete sense to me, but I've also got the flu and am heavily medicated, so take that for what you will. The idea was simple, given a description of something in the real world, could I use AI to generate RGB colors that would represent that abstract idea. I thought this could be a good use of Chrome's built-in AI model and decided to whip up a quick demo.
I cannot stress how much happier weekends are when you're not looking for a job. I used to dread the weekends. No one was posting jobs, no one was responding to applications (usually), and it just made me anxious. Now - I'm enjoying the hell out of the weekend, and looking forward to Monday as my job continues to be fun as hell. Thing are good - and I'm doing my best not to be nervous/anxious about that. ;) Here's some links for your Sunday enjoyment.
Earlier this month, I blogged about building my own Spotify Unwrapped. I did this by requesting a data export from Spotify and playing around with the data in Python and Astro. I built a simple, and probably bad, Astro site to view my stats. When I built it, I had an idea for a slight tweak to make it a bit better, but one that would require API usage. I stand by what I said about not wanting to use the API anymore (feel free to ask why in the comments), but I couldn't resist tinkering one more time. Here's what I did.
A few weeks ago I blogged a demo where I used Chrome's on-device AI feature to parse a "generic template language" and return random strings. If you're so inclined (and of course you are), you can read that post here: "Creating a Generic Generative Language with Chrome AI". The idea was to give the AI model a template string that described what was random, and how it was random (this is a name, this is a number, this is a color, etc) and have the model fill in the blanks with appropriate values.
Tis the season - the Spotify Unwrapped season. If you aren't aware, Spotify creates a yearly "recap" of your listening habits and packages it up in a nice and fun slide show/animated doodad only available on your device. It's a cute thing and as someone who both loves music and stats, I look forward to it. If your curious, here's a part of mine:
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