Ash Ryan Arnwine | Writing

Subcurrent now posts RSS updates to Discord.

Wherein 9 years after I decide to do so, I delete my Facebook account.

Subcurrent brings together content from Astoria Tech community members into a single web page and RSS feed.

Today I streamed my first video on Twitch, showing how to use Anthropic's Claude.ai and Val Town to ship a small frontend web app.

A look at dynamically batch loading RAG resources with EmbedJS.

Using AI in p5.js by wiring up a sketch to a serverless proxy function on Val Town.

Val Town's runnable vals (their word for "gists") can be triggered manually, via email, or as an HTTP endpoint or cron job.

A look at a Node.js library called EmbedJS for RAG AI applications along with a repo to help you get started.

NYU ITP Camp 2024 is underway.

A hiring framework for Developer Advocates focused on coding ability, community stewardship, and content creation.

Reflecting on the past year's journey of integrating AI into our Developer Relations initiatives at Nylas, I'm taking a moment for self-assessment.

Solving email inbox triage with Nylas APIs and OpenAI GPT APIs.

Using AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to enhance DevRel work, build inspiring code samples, and enhance developer experience.

Make an entity resource file with Prisma that can be used with OAS Tools to generate an Open API document and a Node.js/Express server.

Helpful resources and notes from learning gRPC as a Node.js developer, with a focus on practical next steps.

Our next virtual event is this week.

Problem: Sorted arrays are coming back in an unexpected order... sometimes.

Kerri Shotts and I started a little podcast called I'd Rather Be Scripting.

A virtual event coming up on Wednesday, August 26 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Quick steps to create a Node.js, Express, and Postgres playground.

Looking at how to analyze basic health metrics of the FOIA request system using the MuckRock API.

Helping users around spelling errors with fuss-free JavaScript library for fuzzy search.

Our open source Volunteer Dispatch bot is available for use by other organizations.

How to find the process using a busy local port on macOS and kill it so your Node.js dev server can restart.

Getting started with Rust.

Is online-only the future of events?

How splitting off into a micro repo can speed up your iterations and help you produce better results.

Avoiding unexpected date mutations by cloning.

My go-to node modules for basic command line argument parsing.

Another new thing that came to Lightroom yesterday is the Share Edit (beta) feature.

The cross-app workflow sings, and I'm excited to have Photoshop available to me as a companion to Lightroom on iPad.

So now I've got this little Node.js shelves CLI that I likely will never need again.

Spoof is a Node.js module that makes it super simple to change your MAC address on the fly.

Check out the Playball CLI for watching MLB games in your terminal.

A bird photographed on a trail hike in Garrison, New York, with a Fujifilm X-T20 and XF 50-140mm lens.

A pull request for bootstrapping XD plugins with the xdpm CLI.

Check out the recording of “Moving to zsh” from MacSysAdmin 2019 if you’re looking for a way in to learning about zsh, the new default shell in macOS.

I’m going with the Ghost CMS for publishing this blog.

There are multiple ways for a user to exit a modal-based XD plugin, and for your plugin’s code to handle those exits.

Shelling into a local Mac with Prompt 2 for iOS by Panic, an ssh client for iPhone and iPad.

Grepping my zsh setup shows that many of my shell aliases and settings are coming from Oh My Zsh.

A few basic points to keep in mind when creating modal dialog UI for XD plugins.

Notes from learning how zsh aliases work, including where they are defined and how Oh My Zsh changes the picture.

Since macOS has now moved from bash to zsh, it seems like a fine time to revisit the basics of my preferred shell.

It's the Saturday after Adobe MAX, coming down from what is a very busy time each year, so I wanted to start somewhere simple: my Terminal.