The fiddly process of making presentations Many of us have been in a situation where we need to whip up a quick presentation. We might enjoy doing a talk on the subject material, but the thought of having to make presentation slides can take some joy out of it. One of my requirements was toContinue reading “Day 6 – Creating a presentation hosted on a Gemini capsule”
Monthly Archives: December 2024
Day 5 – Generating an HTML Dashboard With Vanilla Raku
by Coleman McFarland The goal of this post is to demonstrate some Raku features by accomplishing something useful in about 100 lines of Raku. We’re going to avoid using libraries, and instead use only what’s available to us in the core language. Our task requires wrapping the GitHub CLI and generating an HTML dashboard. We’llContinue reading “Day 5 – Generating an HTML Dashboard With Vanilla Raku”
Day 4 – Don’t use Forsyth-Edwards Notation to play chess with LLMs
The article discusses the limitations of using Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) for chess interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs). The document introduces various topics, including creating visual plots of chess positions, and developing an LLM persona called “ChessMaster” for interactive chess play.
Day 3 – Merry Cromas
The elves were keen to have an attractive Christmas tree this year. As usual, they wanted to build it with raku, their favourite programming language. They dug back into the archives of Christmas past and came up with a pretty good way to make a tree – Santa and the Magic Tree. But honestly theyContinue reading “Day 3 – Merry Cromas”
Day 2 – WAT LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?
Programming for a living used to be an active conversation between yourself, the computer, and your colleagues. This Christmas, a new guest is joining the programming party: the LLM. Large Language Models (LLMs) can talk a lot and, just like your eccentric uncle at Christmas, occasionally blurt out something bonkers. But do we want toContinue reading “Day 2 – WAT LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?”
Day 1 – Rendering down for Christmas
Last Christmas we got a new specification for RakuDoc, and this Christmas we have a generic rendering engine for RakuDoc V2. “So what?” some may say. “So WHAT !! ?? !!” shouts an inner demon of mine, having struggled for a year to get all the new stuff working, and wasting weeks on getting escapingContinue reading “Day 1 – Rendering down for Christmas”
Raku Advent Calendar 