Raymond is an experienced developer evangelist and advocate. He focuses on APIs, AI, the web platform, and enterprise cat demos.
It's been a busy few weeks for Chrome's Built-in AI support. Since the last time I blogged about it, four features have gone GA (which still means they are Chrome only but not behind a flag anymore):
Last week I blogged about how I used AgentQL to scrape a web page, this blog to be precise, into pure data. If you don't remember, AgentQL lets you pass a simple query string that is run against a web page and parsed into data. So for example, I was able to use this query on my home page to get a list of entries in pure data:
Building a BoxLang and want to know how to do charting with it? The answer is simple... don't!
I kid! Sorry, but for many, far too many, years now I've argued that ColdFusion should not include a charting library. It's a server-side language, and in my (definitely not) humble opinion, client-side code doesn't belong there. (I'm fine not worrying about that though - I trust that team knows their clients better than I do and knows what they're doing.)
I discovered AgentQL a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it quite a bit. In a nutshell, it lets you perform queries against a web page. They've got a simple query language that kinda reminds me of GraphQL, but simpler. So for example, consider the page you are on right now - if I wanted to get the tags, I could use this query:
I don't know why this popped into my head today, but I was thinking about the print version of this page, and others, and what steps could be done to improve the result. Specifically, I was thinking a lot about what should be hidden from the print version as it has no real meaning on paper, or in PDF. With that in mind, I did a quick test - just how well do my pages print now? You can see the result below:
My goal for this series of posts is to share interesting links every two weeks, and I've noticed that sometimes it feels like a split second between when these posts go out. I'm actually a week or so late on this one, which is fine, but dang does time go by quickly. Usually summer is pretty slow, but with the new job, new product launch, and lots of camps for the kids, I don't feel like it's ever let up. Despite that, I've managed to put in near ten hours of Star Wars Outlaws this weekend, so I'm still getting a chance to catch my breath. I put the controller down for a bit so I can share these fun links with yall. Enjoy!
I've been experimenting more and more with AI-assisted coding (not gonna call it vibe coding, even when I do), and the results have been incredibly interesting. Today, I decided to try something interesting - generating a SDK for an API.
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