I should have written this post first, but I didn’t. Give me some credit. I’m still writing stuff on the Internet. The years have proven that’s a higher bar than one might expect. So, we want people to be able to register for events and we want to be able to send them emails, mark […]
Deleting Gravity Form Reservations
I’m messing around with a reservation system that meshes with the Events Calendar Pro calendar system we use. We’re not trying to get people to pay for anything and we have a few other simple things that we want to do that makes a lot of the paid plugins for reservations messy. One of the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-10-22
Super Punch: There was a bomb threat on Oregon States campus today involving Starship delivery bots archives.design What’s new in WCAG 2.2 – TetraLogical Protomaps | A free and open source map of the world […]
Photography in October
The hands up for the touchdown from the QB is part of why I like this one. Doesn’t hurt that it’s my child either. Decent focus. Nice background. I wish I was a little more head on and he was entirely in frame, but it’s a nice series of a great play. I like trying […]
OpenAI API persona builder example
This takes the previous persona builder and shows it working with the OpenAI LTI. I’ve spent about 50 cents in testing so far over three days. That’s using the ChatGPT 4 model. Pricing is based on tokens which loosely equate to computing cycles. There are different rates for different models. I think this would be […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-10-15
Google Maps API x Houdini – Robert HodginDespite there not being predictable building meshes, I was able to do something pretty interesting by adding in a flocking simulation that was able to avoid buildings. I started by downloading a decent sized mesh of San Francisco. I then used the Houdini Labs tools and the MapBox […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-10-08
4K Rivers Landscape | Flickr For children, the central business of school is not learning | @mcleodFor children, the central business of school is not learning, whatever this vague word means; it is getting these daily tasks done, or at least out of the way, with a minimum of effort and unpleasantness. Each task is […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-10-01
Elicit: The AI Research Assistant Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and ClaudeTo test out these capabilities, I asked both GPT-4 and Claude to translate a randomly-chosen passage from a 1599 book about demonology: Magical Investigations (Latin: Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex) by Martin Delrio or del Rio, a Dutch Jesuit of Spanish descent. Ask HN: […]
Javascript voice to text and text to voice
I took some of the Mozilla example code and tweaked it a tiny bit. Pretty crazy what you can do now with voice in the browser. The example below should let you record you voice to text and then have it speak that text back to you. See the Pen speech stuff by Tom (@twwoodward) […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-09-24
Contemporary Type (@contemporarytype) • Instagram photos and videos June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta MagazineWhen he first moved to Ann Arbor, he found himself unequipped for the brutal winter. He had few belongings, and he needed a blanket. But when he looked up how to get to the local mall, […]