JaxNode User Group meeds a Home
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7/4/2025 The JaxNode user group needs a new home. For most of the past 11 years we have been meeting at Availity. We are extremely grateful that Availity has been kind enough and has supported us and other use...
Context is all You Need
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6/28/2025 I recently gave a presentation to a user group about how to build and consume Model Context Protocol servers. Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, is the latest AI buzz word. In this post I will ...
Run Next.js under SSL or HTTPS
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3/22/2025 In my current role, one of the issues I have come across in developing web services and web front-ends is the need to run the server locally under \HTTPS\ or \TLS\. This is commonly referred to as \SS...
Use Langchain with Python
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3/9/2025 I recently did a presentation for the local Python user group on how to use \Langchain\. Langchain is available in TypeScript/JavaScript as well as in Python. I did a previous presentation using the T...
How to create a VSCode extension to scaffold Astro blog posts with AI header images
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11/10/2024 I recently moved my blog to \Astro\ from Gatsby. Previously I created a VSCode extension for generating a stub or scaffold for a new blog post. I created a new one using \Langchain\ and Open AI to gen...
How to Get Correct Datetimes with Azure SQL
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11/4/2024 I recently ran into an issue with trying to return the correct datetime for comparison using Azure SQL Database. I have used Microsoft SQL Server for most of my career, but until this year I had never...
I Moved my Blog to Astro
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10/22/2024 I recently moved my blog to \Astro\. I have been using Gatsby for about four or five years, but anyone who follows Gatsby knows that it is not under active development like it was before their acquisi...
Containerize your Node app Distroless
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4/14/2024 It is easy enough to create a Node.js application, but one of the first roadblocks many developers run into is how they can deploy their application. Many cloud providers have services that will autom...
Apple's new privacy manifest requirement
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4/6/2024 If you publish iOS apps to the Apple App Store, you might have gotten a message back saying your app was submitted successfully, but you have issues related to your upload. This is due to Apple's cont...
LangChain for JavaScript part 3: Create Dall-E images
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3/13/2024 The \LangChain framework\ for \JavaScript and TypeScript\ recently added tool support for the \Dall-E image generation\. OpenAI's \Dall-E\ tool was recently upgraded to version 3. Dall-E support has b...
LangChain for JavaScript part 2
Tags: LangChainNode.jsLLMJavaScript
2/26/2024 In a previous \post\, I wrote about LangChain for JavaScript, and gave a simple example of how to send a prompt to OpenAI's GPT Chat model using LangChain for JavaScript. In this post I plan on showin...
LangChain for JavaScript part 1
Tags: LangChainNode.jsLLMJavaScript
2/22/2024 If you are not already familiar with \LangChain\, it is a framework for chaining large language models, data and functions to create context aware AI software and agents. The company behind LangChain ...
The Tech Hiring Process is Broken!
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2/9/2024 I normally do not use my posts to rant about anything because I find that boring in most cases, but I have decided to speak up about something I have noticed about the way companies are treating appli...
Software Development and AI in 2024
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1/27/2024 I will be giving a presentation on Software Development and AI at the Jax Software and AI meetup group on \this Wednesday\. This presentation will go over the current trends in AI as it concerns softw...
Thoughts on Bun 1.0
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1/18/2024 Yesterday I gave a presentation on Bun 1.0. If you are not familiar with \Bun\, it is a JavaScript runtime, bundler, package installer and tester. Not only does it package multiple JavaScript tools in...
Use fastify to add Actions to your own GPT
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1/8/2024 \OpenAI\ plans to launch a GPT Store this week. Back in November, OpenAI announced that they would allow anyone to create their own GPT. The way this works is that an OpenAI user can define their own ...
How to Over-Engineer your Xmas Lights
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12/23/2023 For this holiday season I decided to upgrade my lighting for the exterior of my home. I purchased some Philips Hue lights for my home. One of the nice things about the Philips Hue lights is that you c...
Startup services in the background on your iOS App
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12/18/2023 Apple has added a lot of features for concurrency in the Apple ecosystem as well as in the Swift language. I had a colleague show me a neat way to load services in the background using Operation Queue...
Using Google's Gemini Generative AI with Node.js
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12/13/2023 It seems the only thing anyone has been talking about in tech over the last year has been generative AI. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT last year it sent the world into an AI frenzy. One of OpenAI's chi...
Available for Work!
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12/11/2023 My current engagement has come to an end, and I am now available to work on new projects. I have spent the last seven and half years building native mobile applications, primarily for iOS devices, but...