10 posts in this series
A Star Trek Themed Editor Inspired by Obsidian
Markdown is used widely in programming, documentation, content creation, GitHub, and lots of other areas in tech. One of the most popular Markdown editors is Obsidian, a note taking app with an...
Generate Custom UI Components With Plain Text Prompts
Web viewers in FileMaker Pro are a great way to extend the platform and create new UI components that would otherwise be impossible. The results can be extremely powerful, but working with web viewers...
Web Viewer solution for constructing JSON from ExecuteSQL
Recently I needed to upload some data from a local FileMaker database to a REST API as part of a migration. FileMaker’s Insert from Url script step uses curl requests for sending data to another API,...
Extracting Text From Images with a Self-Hosted LLM
Last week, Meta released the LLama3.2-vision models, adding image recognition to the existing v3.2 text models. GenAI with image-to-text has been out for a while now, but what’s new here is just how...
Secure, Self-Hosted AI with Offline Access, Using Ollama
In just the last year or so, nearly every app and web service has integrated some form of AI into their product. Even many development platforms like FileMaker now include LLMs for building custom...
A Web Viewer for Building Web Viewers
Web Viewers in FileMaker Pro are like an escape hatch. When you hit the limits of the native FMP platform, you can always extend it with a web viewer to add new functionality. You can add some really...
Visualizing Aggregate Data Across Geographic Regions
Choropleth maps are similar to heat maps, but with regions defined by geometry, rather than a grid. These maps are useful for displaying aggregate values for each region, like census or voting totals,...
Web Viewer Trick to Display Records in a Grid, with Click Events!
FileMaker Pro's layout design tools are top-notch. Between Form View, List View, Sub-Summary Parts, and Table View, you can build just about any type of UI you want... EXCEPT Grid Layouts! Yes, there...
Just add your API Key and Assistant ID to start chatting with your own custom assistant!
OpenAI’s Assistants allow developers to add a ChatGPT-like AI chat to other apps and websites. I’ve been using the Assistant API quite a bit lately in Appsmith, and I wanted to see if I could build...
a starter solution for integrating any API or Database with FileMaker
Hey, I'm Joseph, I'm an engineer at Appsmith, and a long-time FileMaker Pro developer and consultant. I freelanced in FileMaker Pro for years, integrating APIs like Shopify, BigCommerce, eBay and...
