Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
🚀 Apps Script + Gemini Mastery — Issue #21 AI Task Manager for Google Sheets Turn raw notes, project updates, or meeting summaries into structured tasks automatically using Google Apps Script + Gemini. ⭐ What You Will Build In this issue, you’ll build an AI Task Manager that can: ✅ Extract tasks from plain text📅 … Read more
Vibe Teaching — Issue #10 Building Student Independence with AI There’s a subtle danger in AI-powered learning. Students can become faster… …but also more dependent. The Hidden Dependency Problem AI makes everything easier: • answers come instantly• explanations are clear• problems get solved quickly But over time, something starts to happen. Students begin to rely … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #28 Fast Enough First: Performance Thinking Without Premature Optimization Performance • Bottlenecks • Efficiency • Tradeoffs • Real-World Speed Every developer wants fast applications. But many systems don’t suffer from slow code… They suffer from misplaced effort. Optimizing the wrong thingat the wrong timefor the wrong reason. Issue #28 is … Read more
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AI is no longer the future — it is a skill you need right now. In this course, you will move beyond just understanding AI and start using it in practical, real-world ways. You will learn how modern AI works, how to write effective prompts, and how to build simple workflows that turn AI into … Read more
🚀 Foundations of AI: Generative AI Is Already Here Generative AI is no longer the future—it’s happening right now. In this video, we break down the foundations of AI and explore how generative AI is transforming the way we create, learn, and work. From writing content and generating images to building applications and teaching with … Read more
I’ve been working on something a little different lately. Instead of teaching JavaScript through lessons…I asked a simple question: What if you could learn to code by experiencing it? So I created a short film:JavaScript: The Movie It follows a developer pulled into an AI system where nothing exists unless it’s defined, structured, and executed … Read more
If AI is the engine, prompting is the steering wheel. Most people use AI—but few know how to guide it. The difference between a weak result and a powerful one often comes down to how you ask. This post breaks down the fundamentals of prompting so you can get better, more accurate, and more useful … Read more
Most people learn JavaScript the same way: Syntax first.Concepts second.Practice later. But what if that order is backwards? What if understanding comes faster when you experience the concepts instead of memorizing them? That idea led to an experiment: JavaScript: The Movie From Lessons to Experience The goal wasn’t to create another tutorial. It was to … Read more
Why they matter, how they work, and how to use them effectively Artificial Intelligence is often described as “learning from data.” But that’s only part of the story. The real power of modern AI systems comes from something deeper and more dynamic: feedback loops. AI feedback loops are what transform static models into continuously improving … Read more