Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
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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
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
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
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
📘 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
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
(H1 → H2, H2 → H3, etc.) When working with long Google Docs—course outlines, documentation, manuscripts, or AI-generated content—you often need to shift all heading levels down by one. For example: Doing this manually in a long document is tedious. Fortunately, Google Apps Script makes it possible to automate this task in seconds. This post … Read more
Welcome to Vibe Learning: How to Become a Self-Powered AI-Enhanced Learner Lesson Overview Day 1 is your introduction to the Vibe Learning Philosophy — a modern framework for mastering any skill or topic using generative AI in a structured, intentional, and deeply personalized way. By the end of today’s lesson, you will: Let’s go. 🌈 … Read more
Google Docs + Apps Script is a magic combo for automating writing workflows, templates, formatting, and reporting. https://github.com/lsvekis/100-Useful-Google-Docs-Apps-Script-Functions In this post, you’ll get 100 tiny utility functions you can drop into your own projects. Each one is: Tip: Create a single .gs file called docsHelpers.gs and paste all the functions there. Then call them from … Read more