Raymond Camden

Earlier this week I took a look at BoxLang's new rewriting feature (("URL Rewriting with BoxLang MiniServer")[https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/08/11/url-rewriting-with-boxlang-miniserver]). It basically boils down to telling the miniserver app, "here is a file I want you to run on a 404", and given that you can write code for anything you would like, it's really flexible. I like this approach, but it got me thinking, what if BoxLang also supported a non-code based rewriting system, something where you can define paths, and rewrites, in a file? I took a stab at architecting such a feature and thought I'd share.

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As I've been playing, and thinking, more and more about how to best add Chrome AI support to web apps, I came across an interesting use-case that I think could be helpful, and like in my previous examples, be completely ok if it didn't actually work. When I write on the developer blog at Foxit, I make use of WordPress plugin for code samples. This editor has a place for you to both paste in your code, and select the language so the proper highlighter is used:

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BoxLang recently released it's 1.4 version, and one of the cooler parts of that update was many improvements to MiniServer. MiniServer is a lightweight web server that makes it easy to spin up and test BoxLang web applications.

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Hello friends - another two weeks has gone by which means another links post to share. Sometimes, ok, pretty much every time, I'm shocked at how quickly I have to do these posts. It's like I blink and half a month has flown by. In my last Links post I mentioned dealing with some frustrations, and they've gotten better, but I'm now dealing with the start of school which brings its own challenges. That being said - the family is happy and healthy, I'm employed, so I'll take that as a win. Let's get to the links!

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A few weeks ago, I shared an interesting demo that integration location and AI analysis of images using Chrome's Built-in AI support and Mapbox's Revervse Geocoding API. The idea was rather simple - let the user select an image and then:

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I've been a comic book reader for just about the same amount of time as I've been writing code. Any computer using comic book reader (and there's probably quite a few) will know that electronic versions of comics let you read comics on your devices. These comics typically come in one of two formats, CBR and CBZ, which are literally just RAR and ZIP files, nothing more. Over the years, I've had fun building my own web-based readers for this format, with my last one from a bit over three years ago, "Reading Comic Books in the Jamstack". I thought it would be fun to tackle this in BoxLang and see what worked well and what proved difficult. I've got a complete demo done that I'll link to at the end, but let's dig into what I created.

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So back in early July, I wrote up two blog posts on building a calendar with BoxLang. If you forgot or (gasp!) didn't see them, you can read the first two parts here:

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