Episode 12 - Wait, ChatGPT Made this Recipe?!?

It was 5 p.m. The end of another day of back-to-back meetings. The kind that drain your soul and leave nothing but empty coffee cups and half-scribbled notes in their wake. I wasn't sure what the evening was going to hold for me, but I was about to find out.

Episode 11 - The Final Chunkdown - Building Smarter Summaries

The final episode in my mini-series about building a blog summary generation tool.

Episode 10 - What Your Content Looks Like in Embedding Space

Yesterday, April 24th, 2025, I gave the closing keynote at the GIS in Action conference in Portland, OR. It was a blast, even if my AI Powered slides were not on their best game. Don't Panic! It's just AI! This is part 3 of 4 posts

Episode 9 - How to Find Content like you Find Places on a Map

Part 2 of a series about building a blog summarizer tool.

Episode 8 - One Summary to Rule Them All

Part 1 of a series about how to build a summarizer of Blog posts.

Episode 7 - Dear HAL, is This Drain Name Something I can say to my Mom?

A quick look at an old idea I had a few years ago to use LLMs to filter or protect input data. Also a pretty good try by ChatGPT to make a four panel comic.

Episode 6 – Where I Teach You to Build a Losing March Madness Bracket

In this episode, I show you how I used AI to make "average" March Madness brackets. Spoiler, they are not very good, but I learned how good AI is at impersonating a human for repetitive or tedious tasks.

Episode 5 - From Words to Code (aka Coding by Vibe)

In Episode 5 we are going to look at how we think, how the web has evolved, and the shifts that are happening as AI and LLMs take on some aspects of software development – and explore what’s left for the Humans (spoiler: the fun parts, I think).

Episode 4 - Disposable Apps

Esri Developer and Technology Summit A quick shout out to everyone who attended my packed talk at the Esri Developer Summit this week! In that session, we built, from scratch (in about 15 minutes), a very simple DnD Character Building tool. It was very simple, but also showcased how a

Episode 3 - Building a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner

Welcome to Episode 3! This week, we will examine our first real-world coding example to build a Thanksgiving Dish Assigner. Yes, this was a real thing, that was really used!