Links For You (8/9/25)
Saturday links for Saturday| www.raymondcamden.com
So yeah... not a great two weeks or so since my last Links post. If you missed the announcement, my time at Foxit was unceremoniously cut short which came as a complete shock. This may end up being the year I spend more time without a full time job than with. To be honest, I'm a really, really bad place right now, but, trying to maintain, and trying my best to once again find a job in the worst market I've seen in my career. One way or the other I'll get through this again, but I'm really, re...| Raymond Camden
It's been a little while since I last blogged about my favorite web platform feature, Intl. I think it was maybe two or so years ago when I was prepping for my first conference talk on the topic and using that as an opportunity to dig much deeper into the spec then I had before and wow, I was unprepared for how flexible, and powerful, this functionality is in the browser.| Raymond Camden
The BoxLang folks have a proper "administrator" desktop client coming in the future, but lately I've been finding myself needing a quick way to work with logs and preferring a web-based tool versus using tail in my terminal (I know, I'm crazy like that). I thought I'd take a stab (Halloween is coming soon, can you tell?) at a simple web application that could do what I wanted - let me quickly view a log.| Raymond Camden
Ok, to be honest, this is going to be a pretty lightweight post as it's about a simple little string function in BoxLang, but as I discovered it rather recently and was intrigued by what it did.| Raymond Camden
Sadly, I find myself in the same situation I did a few months ago. My time at Foxit has abruptly come to an end. While it didn't work out, I am incredibly proud of what I was able to achieve in such short time. I'm a bit in shock now, but, I love my work, I love helping developers, and I can't not work if my kids want to eat. (Rudely they tend to get hungry - like every single day.) As always, if you know me, and know of an opportunity, I'd love any introductions you can give. I got through t...| Raymond Camden
Earlier this week I took a look at BoxLang's new rewriting feature (("URL Rewriting with BoxLang MiniServer")[https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/08/11/url-rewriting-with-boxlang-miniserver]). It basically boils down to telling the miniserver app, "here is a file I want you to run on a 404", and given that you can write code for anything you would like, it's really flexible. I like this approach, but it got me thinking, what if BoxLang also supported a non-code based rewriting system, somethin...| Raymond Camden
As I've been playing, and thinking, more and more about how to best add Chrome AI support to web apps, I came across an interesting use-case that I think could be helpful, and like in my previous examples, be completely ok if it didn't actually work. When I write on the developer blog at Foxit, I make use of WordPress plugin for code samples. This editor has a place for you to both paste in your code, and select the language so the proper highlighter is used:| Raymond Camden
BoxLang recently released it's 1.4 version, and one of the cooler parts of that update was many improvements to MiniServer. MiniServer is a lightweight web server that makes it easy to spin up and test BoxLang web applications.| Raymond Camden
A few weeks ago, I shared an interesting demo that integration location and AI analysis of images using Chrome's Built-in AI support and Mapbox's Revervse Geocoding API. The idea was rather simple - let the user select an image and then:| Raymond Camden
Using AI to fix a blog that's missing a RSS feed| www.raymondcamden.com
Using AgentQL's scraping APIs with BoxLang to extract pure data from a web page.| www.raymondcamden.com
Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.| www.raymondcamden.com
Using a data-centric API to search for articles based on sentiment.| www.raymondcamden.com
How I added a simple audio preview to my recent Spotify tracks.| www.raymondcamden.com
Another example of front matter - signifying edits (both when and why)| www.raymondcamden.com
