Australian full stack engineer based in Paris, France2024-08-23T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/Larry Hudsonhttps://larryhudson.io/2024-08-23T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/astro-strava-map/<p>I’m excited to share a small project I’ve been working on: a web app that takes your Strava workout activiites and puts them on a single map using Astro, the Strava API and the Mapbox SDK.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/astro-strava-map/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-07-03T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/anthropic-claude-chatbot-custom-tools/<p>I’m excited to share a demo chatbot interface built with Next.js that allows you</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/anthropic-claude-chatbot-custom-tools/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-06-13T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/neovim-twig-component-extract/<p>In the last week or so I’ve been getting up to speed learning how to make websites with Craft CMS. Craft is a PHP-based content management system that uses Twig templates.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/neovim-twig-component-extract/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-05-18T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/focusmate/<p>I have been trying out Focusmate - a web app that matches you with another person for a virtual coworking call - and it is helping me get a lot more done.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/focusmate/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-03-13T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/iag-text-to-speech/<p>In March 2024, I wrote an article for the Information Access Group newsletter about how text-to-speech can make your content more accessible, aimed at content authors and readers.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/iag-text-to-speech/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-02-20T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/protomaps-maplibre-screenshot/<p>At the start of May, my partner and I will be moving from Australia to live in Paris for a year. We’re really excited! I’ve been trying to learn a bit more French before our move, so I’ve been using the spaced repetition app Anki to learn vocabulary.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/protomaps-maplibre-screenshot/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-02-15T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/ai-thinking-and-output/<p>Ethan Mollick recently wrote an article demonstrating what you can do with AI in under a minute. He shows that you can write a product launch, plan a course syllabus, design a kitchen and do market research all in under a minute. It’s a great demonstration of what we can generate with AI tools today.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/ai-thinking-and-output/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-02-10T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/astro-weaviate-brainstorm/<p>Lately I’ve been interested in generative search - the idea of searching through a database of text items by semantic similarity and then generating new text based on the search results. I think this is a really powerful idea.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/astro-weaviate-brainstorm/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2024-01-28T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/active-reading-readwise-brainstory-anki/<p>Lately I’ve been interested in active reading techniques and how we can turn the interesting information that we read into useful knowledge.</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/active-reading-readwise-brainstory-anki/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>2023-12-17T00:00:00Zhttps://larryhudson.io/pdf-to-audiobook-document-intelligence-gpt4-openai/<p>I’ve been experimenting with turning scanned PDFs into audiobooks using:</p><p><a href="https://larryhudson.io/pdf-to-audiobook-document-intelligence-gpt4-openai/">Keep reading on Larry Hudson →</a></p>