Laurence Svekis

Laurence Svekis is a web technology enthusiast, educator, and author who has been working in the field for over 20 years. He has expertise in web development technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL. Svekis is a prolific course instructor on Udemy, with over 500,000 students enrolled in his courses. He has authored over 100 online courses, covering a wide range of web technologies and tools, such as Google Apps Script, WordPress, React, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB. His courses are known for their practical and hands-on approach, with a focus on real-world projects and examples. In addition to teaching, Svekis is also a published author, with several books to his name Svekis is passionate about empowering people with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the rapidly evolving field of web technology. He is committed to providing high-quality educational resources that are accessible to anyone, regardless of their background or experience level.

5 Simple Google Apps Script Exercises Using Gemini

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https://github.com/lsvekis/5-Simple-Google-Apps-Script-Exercises-Using-Gemini 🚀 5 Simple Google Apps Script Exercises Using Gemini (With Full Code + Downloadable Repo) AI is transforming how we work inside Google Workspace—and with Google Apps Script + Gemini, you can now add AI superpowers directly into Docs, Sheets, and your everyday workflows. To help you get started quickly, I’ve created a set … Read more

Lesson 6 Chat Memory RAG Sheet Vector Index MultiSource AI

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📘 Lesson 6 — Multi-Folder Workspaces (Switch Between Knowledge Bases) How to let your Apps Script + Gemini assistant dynamically switch between multiple folders (each with its own RAG index). 🔥 What Lesson 6 Adds Until now, your assistant worked with exactly one folder, and one RAG index sheet. Lesson 6 adds the ability to … Read more

Reset Chat Show Sources Lesson 5

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📘 Lesson 5 — Reset Chat + Show Sources (Docs & Chunks) in the UI By now you have: – A RAG index in Sheets (Lesson 4B) – Chat history + RAG working together (Lesson 4C) – A web app UI (from Lesson 2) calling google.script.run But two things are missing: – Users can’t reset … Read more

Black Friday Deal: Level Up Your JavaScript Skills with JavaScript From Beginner to Professional

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🔥 Black Friday Deal: Level Up Your JavaScript Skills with JavaScript From Beginner to Professional (25% OFF!) If you’ve ever tried learning JavaScript and found yourself stuck Googling “Why doesn’t this work?!” you’re not alone. JavaScript is one of the most powerful — and misunderstood — programming languages in the world. Many learners get missing … Read more

The Art of Asking: How to Write Powerful Learning Prompts

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Turn AI into your personal tutor, coach, and explainer. 👋 Welcome to Issue #2! In our first issue, we explored what Vibe Learning is and why AI changes how we learn forever. Today, we’re going deeper into the skill that unlocks everything: 👉 How to write prompts that actually teach you. Generative AI isn’t magic. … Read more

Lesson 4 – Leveling Up Your Gemini RAG Assistant

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Github https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Apps-Script-APIs-and-Gemini 4A: RAG + API Data · 4B: Sheet Vector Index · 4C: Chat History By now, you’ve already built a powerful foundation: In Lesson 4, we’re going to level this up in three big steps: By the end, you’ll have an assistant that: 📘 Lesson 4A — Combine RAG + API Data in a … Read more

Lesson 3 Adding Embeddings Retrieval RAG to Your Gemini API Project

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Github https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Apps-Script-APIs-and-Gemini In Lessons 1 and 2, you learned how to: – Call public APIs using Apps Script – Read text from a Google Drive folder – Combine both sources into a Gemini prompt – Build a full UI web app Now it’s time to level up. In Lesson 3, we introduce: – Chunking (splitting documents … Read more

Fixing Google Docs Formatting: How to Convert Bullet Points Into Dashes Using Apps Script

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Anyone who works regularly in Google Docs knows the pain:You paste content from the web, a PDF, an email, or another document—and suddenly your bullets have weird spacing, broken formatting, or mystery blank lines that refuse to go away. You try deleting them manually.You try changing line spacing.You even try Apps Script code others recommend… … Read more

Build an API + Drive + Gemini Web App

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📘 Lesson 2 — Build an API + Drive + Gemini Web App (No Indexing, Just Context) Github https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Apps-Script-APIs-and-Gemini In Lesson 1, you learned how to: Now in Lesson 2, we’ll go one level up: You’ll build a chat-style web app where each question is answered using: No embeddings, no indexing — just direct context: … Read more

Getting Data from APIs with Google Apps Script

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Github Repo https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Apps-Script-APIs-and-Gemini In this project, your Hybrid AI Orchestrator pulls in real data from the web using APIs and then lets AI (local model + Gemini) interpret that data. To do that, we need to understand one key tool: UrlFetchApp — the Apps Script class that lets you call APIs. In this lesson you’ll … Read more