My New Role - Helping AI Adoption at Cursor
This will be a short and sweet post to announce that today is my first day at Cursor!
Hi, I'm Raymond Camden 👋
I'm a developer advocate who loves the web platform, APIs, AI, and basically just anything involving code. I love to write about technology and share that with others. I've got fun stuff to show you and I'm so happy you're here!
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Links For You (7/5/26)
In my last links post, I hinted that I may have some good news on the job front, and if you follow me on LinkedIn you already know that I've signed on to my next gig. Tomorrow morning I'll share on here (and on LI) details about the new gig, but I am beyond excited about this new job. With that out of the way, how about some happy links for what's going to be a really dang good week?
Building Custom Form Selection Boxes - Working on Accessibility
Whenever I find myself needing to update a previous blog post, I either correct it inline and add a small note on top, for small tweaks, or write a whole new piece for larger changes. My last blog post talked about how to use CSS to style a "block" such that it acted like a form radio button. When I worked on that demo, I was a bit worried about accessibility. I did one quick check with an online tool, and thought I was ok. I was not.
Building Custom Form Selection Blocks - no JS, all CSS
Edit on July 3 - See my update. I apologize for what may be a slightly misleading title. The topic for this post is something I've had on my list of things to explore for some time now, and while I wait for the new job to start, I've found myself with time to kill. Let me explain what I'm talking about and hopefully it will make a bit more sense. You are, dear reader, familiar with form controls and how to build forms both big and small. One type of user interface I've seen from time to time is the ability to select an item where the "item" is an arbitrary block of code. What do I mean by that?
Decoding VINs with an API
Today's post took a bit of a pivot. I decided to work on a demo idea I had created way back in March. As I worked on it, I ran into multiple roadblocks, and while that original idea for a demo may still see the light of the day, I figured I'd at least share something that did work.
Parsing Arbitrary Dates in Strings with Chrono and a Web Component
Yesterday I had an idea for a possible experiment using Chrome's built-in AI support - looking for "date" references in strings. So for example: "I will have my new job in 12 days". Could the AI model recognize "12 days" as a date and determine what the actual date is, assuming a reference date of now? I was about to start working on a simple POC when I thought... wait... is there already a JavaScript library for this?
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