Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.
This was a "I can't fall asleep and my mind is wondering" type of idea and honestly, I'm surprised at how good it came out. For a while now I've shared demos where a user picks an image and ... something. It doesn't matter. But I typically add a preview of the image when it's selected. This works because once the user selects a file on their local system, JavaScript can then access the bits of…
Happy August folks. Louisiana is celebrating the approach of Fall by gradually increasing the temperatures to roughly that of the surface of the sun. Last night we saw the new Spider-Man, which was really good, although not as fantastic as "No Way Home". The point of these posts is for me to share content from other folks, but I'll remind folks of my Youtube channel . This past week I shared a few…
Alright, so I was supposed to share this a bit quicker, but life, work, etc, kept me busy. I've had this particular change up for a few days but I'm just now getting around to blogging about it. What changes? Adding Algolia's MCP to my Cursor environment Using Algolia's MCP (what worked, what did not) Adding Algolia content as a scheduled service with Netlify Adding a basic search front end to I…
I've shared past experiences with vibe coding and it's been a fascinating way to experiment and build on a small scale, but while it works well for POCs and other small utilities (I won't say 'toys' as I've built useful, if small, things now multiple times), it isn't really a "process" and not one that would work over a project with a longer time frame. This is where "Agentic Development" comes…
Earlier today and in a non web-related conversation, I saw someone talk about copying tabular data into different formats, like plain text and CSV. It got me thinking - this could be a useful feature for web sites and surely something pretty trivial to do in JavaScript. So I whipped up a quick demo. First, I added a table of course: <table id="table1"> <thead> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>DOB</th>…
Good morning, programs. I'm currently at a conference ( Day of Data ), but thankfully one just down the road. I'll be back tonight, and thought I'd take a break between sessions to share some links. I'll be presenting later today one of my favorite talks, "A Beginner's Guide to Wrangling Asynchronicity in JavaScript". I love the talk, but given I'm up against eight other talks at the same time and…
A few days ago I was chatting with Chuck Meyer (devrel for Algolia ) and I casually mentioned, "It sure would be cool if Algolia had an easy way to turn my search index into an MCP server." He promptly responded, "Of course, you complete and utter dufus, which is why we already have that feature." (Not an exact quote.) This is exactly the kind of thing I love to hear. I've been using Algolia for…
Yesterday, I wrote about using Cursor to review my blog for performance . Cursor (and again, for full disclosure I work here now ;) did a dang good job of finding performance issues with my site, handling the huge size and various languages, platforms, and so forth. As I said, it worked well, but I wanted to look into making this more of a repeatable process. I'm saying "repeatable", not…
Last week I decided to try something interesting. I opened my blog up in Cursor and asked for a basic performance review. That seems like a no-brainer, but keep in mind, my blog's source code clocks in at near seven thousand files (ignoring node_modules of course), so this wasn't some small request. My blog is built with the Eleventy static site generator. It's a mix of JavaScript and Markdown…
This will be a short and sweet post to announce that today is my first day at Cursor ! I'm starting today as an AI Adoption Engineer, which basically boils down to helping our customers make better use of Cursor and AI in general. If you've been visiting my site for a while now, you know I've been using AI for quite some time, but more importantly, I've also been adopting AI in my own workflows…