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Streaming LLM Responses

#445 Mar 3, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at running a self hosted Large Language Model (LLM) and consuming it with a Rails application. We will use a background to make API requests to the LLM and then stream the responses in real-time to the browser.

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Campfire Patterns

#441 Feb 4, 2024 free

In this episode, we look at some of the design patterns that are used in Campfire and my take on why they took this approach. We'll explore some of the code organization, search functionality, and more!

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Exploring Campfire

#439 Jan 24, 2024 free

In this episode, we explore the Campfire code from 37signals' Once product line. We'll install the product and grab the code base to get it up and running on our development environment.

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Turbo 8

#436 Jan 7, 2024 free

With Turbo 8 comes a lot of new features and in this episode, we'll explore an upgrading a blog post with comments to add in the new functionality.

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Hotkeys

#431 Dec 3, 2023 free

Keyboard shortcuts, or Hotkeys, can provide a great experience to users of an application. In this episode, we will use a stimulus wrapper around this library to use within our Ruby on Rails application.

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Detect Spam with AI

#427 Nov 5, 2023 free

We can create a small python service that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to detect if a message is spam or not. Using this service, we can tie it into our Rails application so that any comment created will be evaluated for being spam or not. We explore a few different routes on handling any messages flagged as spam.

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Embedding Stripe Checkout

#422 Oct 1, 2023 free

Stripe Checkout is one of my favorite ways to handle payments in Ruby on Rails applications. Stripe Checkouts will soon have an option to embed the Checkout into your web application. In this episode, we'll look at implementing this feature with a StimulusJS controller.

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I'm a teapot

#418 Sep 6, 2023 free

A special release to celebrate 418 episodes. I talk about different HTTP response codes.

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System Tests

#417 Sep 3, 2023 free

In this episode, we look at adding system tests in our application to test our Stimulus Controllers. We'll also look at how to DRY up some of the tests and how to run them in a headless environment.

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PDF Reader

#413 Aug 6, 2023 free

When previewing PDF files that were uploaded through Active Storage, we can only get a simple image of the first page. In this episode, we'll look at taking the uploaded PDFs and interacting with them.

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