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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.

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  1. Routing: Building Step-by-Step AI Reasoning

    Explore how to intelligently route AI queries using schema-guided function calling and contextual categorisation.

    Agentic AI

  2. Prompt Chaining: Building Step-by-Step AI Reasoning

    Learn how prompt chaining enables AI to tackle complex tasks through step-by-step reasoning, boosting both accuracy and interpretability.

    Agentic AI

  3. LCP and low-entropy images

    In this article we take a look at how to see if an image has low-entropy for LCP calculation.

    Web Performance Core Web Vitals

  4. Compare how different image formats load on the web

    WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, Progressive JPEG - how do these image formats compare in terms of their load speeds and how can we measure it? In this article we review a small app that gives us a visual answer.

    Web Performance Image Formats

  5. Google Chrome introduces a new Performance Insights panel

    A new performance insight panel has been added to Chrome which helps with tracking down performance bottlenecks in a much easier fashion compared to the classic performance panel

    Web Performance Google chrome

  6. call vs apply vs bind

    In this article we take a look at the differences between call(), apply() and bind().

    this || that JavaScript

  7. contains vs includes

    This article explains the two, often mixed-up, contains and includes methods.

    this || that JavaScript

  8. slice vs splice

    This article explains the two, often mixed-up, slice and splice methods.

    this || that JavaScript

  9. AVIF - Another Video based Image Format

    In this article we take a look at AVIF - a next generation image format that was first introduced by Netflix and it promises optimised performance over the widely used and popular JPEG.

    Image Optimisation Web Performance

  10. Bring your C++ Application to the Web with Web Assembly

    Web Assembly allows developers to bring existing applications written in languages such as C++ to the web, leveraging the combination of modern browsers and JavaScript. This article features a C++ application port to Web Assembly.

    Web Assembly