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Raymond Camden
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Developer Advocate who spends all his time building demos involving cats.
@cassidoo.co BoxLang (os jvm language i follow) released an updated today w/ a cool array func, chunk - this could be a good interview Q for your newsletter:

www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Almost 3 years ago I blogged about attending Antiques Roadshow (tldr - it was cool) and it is consistently one of my most popular posts: www.raymondcamden.com/2023/05/04/m...
My Experience at Antiques Roadshow
My experience attending an Antiques Roadshow.
www.raymondcamden.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Called and spoke with Adobe customer support and the guy told me Adobe is discontinuing Animate because apparently the company can't think of any new features to add to the program and they feel it's gotten stale.

So they're just GETTING RID OF IT???
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM

New post from my blog: "Building an RSS Aggregator with Astro"

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/02/02/building-an-rss-aggregator-with-astro
Building an RSS Aggregator with Astro
How I used Astro and Netlify to build a simple RSS Aggregator.
www.raymondcamden.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Shocked in a very happy way how freaking easy it was to deploy Astro on Netlify *with* SSR and using their blob support. Like, I kept waiting for something to not work... and it just flat out went perfect.
February 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Help me understand something - what is the point of putting the title of your blog in your og image - when social media previews also show the title too. Do you really need it twice?
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Saturday night is show off new toys with my wife and brother and build LEGO.
February 1, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This is spectacular.
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
January 31, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Local news agency starts a FB post all kind of boring:

"A man has been arrested for the third time on the same allegations."

with the actual link being:

"Man arrested again for seeking diaper changes"
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing
January 29, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Yep. Tubberville calling the SuperBowl halftime show "the woke bowl" is an attempt to pretend that the most popular musical artist in the world doesn't deserve the gig because he doesn't appeal to dumb, old, conservative white men.

It's equal opportunity for a deserving candidate [of color].
As good an illustration as any that "woke" for these folks just means "non-white people are allowed to exist."
Tuberville: "Unfortunately we've got the Woke Bowl, because we're getting more and more woke. We got Bad Bunny or Bad Rabbit at halftime. I'll be watching the TPUSA halftime show. It's just unfortunate we've gotten to this point."
January 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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An adventurous dragon lives inside a black hole. She inventories her hoard, which consists of thousands of books, hundreds of eyes, and sparse processors. She feels alert.
January 29, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Fur baby Luna, 14 years ago and today.
January 29, 2026 at 8:44 PM

New post from my blog: "Interrogate Your PDFs with Chrome AI"

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/01/29/interrogate-your-pdfs-with-chrome-ai
Interrogate Your PDFs with Chrome AI
Adding a Q/A system to your documents.
www.raymondcamden.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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dystopian america was more fun to read about in old scifi novels than it is to live through
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
every six months or so i'm reminded about how freaking amazing "Burn" is - i love the drums especially:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-u...
Burn
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Don't we all feel a bit mushy at times?
A fancy dragon lives in a nebula. She looks over her hoard, which consists of billions of yaks, little nails, and hundreds of golds. She feels mushy.
January 28, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM

New post from my blog: "Summarizing PDFs with On-Device AI"

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/01/28/summarizing-pdfs-with-on-device-ai
Summarizing PDFs with On-Device AI
Using PDF.js and Chrome AI to summarize PDFs.
www.raymondcamden.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
First half of "Wonder Man" was really good. Much "smaller" and simpler than typical MCU content and I'm fine with that.

Also, liked the somewhat stretched connection to Cloak and Dagger who I would love to see return to the MCU.
January 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
There's one of our cats who absolutely loves me for some reason, and she accidentally got outside w/o us knowing - for 2 days. She's safe now but is spending 100% of her time near me. (And I'm fine with that.)
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM

New post from my blog: "Links For You (1/25/26)"

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/01/25/links-for-you-12526
Links For You (1/25/26)
Curated links for curated friends.
www.raymondcamden.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:52 AM