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Notes on AI, agents, web technologies, and building with LLMs

Technical articles on AI integration, agents, agent harnesses, MCP, web technologies, and emerging tools. Working notes from a Google Developer Expert with 25+ years of building and teaching.

  1. Image Management in Ghost - A performance report

    This article draws a comparison between the built-in Ghost Image Management and a third party Image Management solution including a performance comparison.

  2. Loading data before components in Angular

    In this article, we'll review a few ways to make sure that data is available for a component before we load it and display it in the application to the user.

  3. What's new in HTML 5.2 and HTML 5.3?

    In this article, we'll review the latest proposed additions to HTML - more precisely we'll discuss HTML 5.2 and HTML 5.3.

  4. Deprecation Warnings in MongoDB's Node.js API

    This article shows how to fix some of the deprecation warnings after updating to MongoDB 4 as well as using the MongoDB Node.js 3.x API.

  5. Adaptive image loading based on network speed

    In this article, we'll explore a concept based on Network Information API, Service Workers and Cloudinary to enable web applications to serve lower quality images (if necessary) in order to speed up the perceptual load time of the web app.

  6. Sharing a MongoDB connection in Node.js/Express

    This article covers how to share a MongoDB database connection in a Node.js/Express application in the right way.

  7. RESTful API Design - POST vs PUT vs PATCH

    In this blog post we'll not only explore these differences but also discuss idempotent and safe HTTP methods.

  8. RESTful API Design - The basics

    In this article, we'll take a look at some of the basics of REST APIs and design such APIs, in the context of Node.js and Express.

  9. Use Angular Custom Element in Vue.js

    In this article, we'll now see how to use such custom elements outside Angular and in a supposedly competing framework, Vue.js.

  10. Create and use Custom Elements with Angular

    In this article, we'll take a look at the new custom elements feature in Angular6. We will see how to create a custom element as well as how to reuse it in a simple application.