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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Writing Python in 2025 is good, actually thanks to `uv` 😎

Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I wanted a way to benchmark a bunch of LLMs from the CLI. Wrapped @simonwillison.net’s llm library + had it ingest a config file specifying the models you want. It'll run them async (if the plugin supports it) and write the results out to JSON so you can review/eval/process.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Code, instructions to build it locally + deploy to your own @cloudflare.social account here: github.com/jonesphillip...

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https://github.com/jonesphillip/yogurt

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

When one of the PMs on the team *builds a macOS app* that uses Workers AI to auto-transcribe notes from any system process, summarize them, and do it all privately within your own Cloudflare account 😎

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Love this app from Notion (faces.notion.com). My previous avatar was from a Notion inspired Figma. (Ship fun things!)

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

More reading in 2025, starting with these:

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Case in point: I like AI for prototyping, but… are we headed towards a monoculture because that’s all our tools support? Do other libraries stand a chance? Do we get to try out new ideas? I’m hoping the next big advance in LLMs enables more real-time knowledge (that isn’t just function calling).

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

StarCraft (1998)

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Matt @mattlynch.dev · 28/12/2024

Finally got around to open sourcing the template I use for React Router + Cloudflare github.com/matthewlynch...

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GitHub - matthewlynch/react-router-cloudflare-d1

Contribute to matthewlynch/react-router-cloudflare-d1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

“podcasts” moving to video platforms and forgetting about audio only listeners: 🫠

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Kevin Kipp @kevinkipp.com · 28/12/2024

DROP TABLE Dogs;

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

How do you get your clients into everyone else’s editors? 🙃

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Right! Using the LSP is a far more accurate approach vs RAG. Tool calling the LSP to validate autocompletions and/or refactors would be huge. Curious to understand who is pushing in that direction with the glut of AI-enabled editors.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Right, but that doesn’t help the masses: you now have to distribute (and incorporate!) those fine tunes to users too. The most popular models/platforms don’t allow you to BYO LoRAs, so we’re back at square one.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

USB-C is just the physical connector. It’s entirely legal to ship a product with a USB-C connector that only supports USB 2.0 transfer rates and 15W PD, and even that’s arguable.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

FWIW: I think LLM-enabled editors are powerful tools, but the “knowledge latency” of the most popular/capable models is pretty poor. RAG helps but isn’t a true fix.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

How do we experiment with new ideas, frameworks & ship new APIs as the reliance on LLMs increases? Specifically: the current gap between training data (April 2024 for Claude!) means that there’s far more friction for users to try something new or different.

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Sunil Pai @threepointone.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

tried writing this blog 3 times but it’s really boring, so here’s the short version: React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died. This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This includes scaling our metadata layer, driving our new Rust-based storage subsystem, and designing for our massively distributed network. Expecting a decade+ of experience for this one. Email me (silverlock @ cloudflare) if you’re serious.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

If you’re an experienced engineering leader with proven capability in building, scaling and maintaining modern, bare metal storage infrastructure: come talk to us here at @cloudflare.social.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

to me it’s similar to talking about programming languages, a good CLI, or even a great ratcheting wrench: an appreciation for great tools and QoL improvements that can come with them!

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Swapped from iTerm 2 -> Ghostty. Super minimal config. Liking it so far: it really does just work + feel native.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

When the docs engineering team picks the only correct date format:

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 21/12/2024

Being a good writer has always been valuable, but in an era of bland AI slop I suspect that being able to write with an authentic, human voice is effectively becoming a super power

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Half crispy (11 mins), half chewy (12.5 mins) 👨‍🍳

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We’ve been working on making the new Model Context Protocol from @anthropic.com *really* easy to build against 👷

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 20/12/2024

uv is really really really close to replacing about half a dozen tools (and making python the default scripting language) treyhunner.com/2024/12/lazy...

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Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv

I frequently find myself writing my own short command-line scripts in Python that help me with day-to-day tasks. It’s so easy to throw together …

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The Cloudflare Calls team made it easy to invite OpenAI’s real time voice API to your WebRTC-powered app. (Check the demo!)

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

NEW: Top guidance for phone security from #CISA? Use end-to-end communications exclusively. Great thread here by @boblord.bsky.social

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Related: this guy in Japan doing a near nut-and-bolt restoration of an old 911: youtu.be/tVfZPMWXJN4 (these are perfect “airplane content” when you fly as much as I do)

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自宅ガレージでポルシェを全塗装！半年間の全工程を収めた完全保存版【ポルシェ911SC整備#215】

YouTube video by 空冷ポルシェ整備日記,ときどきラジコン

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

When Hyperdrive launched (Sept 2023) / where we are today (Dec 2024):

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Cloudflare Hyperdrive team just casually shipping a ~90% performance improvement via a changelog update:

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

EXTREMELY well deserved. Kino makes me want to shoot more video on my iPhone.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The @thenile.dev team made it super easy to build an app using Workers + Postgres 👇

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Exactly that. High throughput record ingestion. Starting with R2 as the sink then streaming transforms in Workers + more sinks following.

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Ben Holmen @benholmen.com · 07/12/2024

I wrote a quick post on building a viral bluesky toy: working with the API, optimizing for viral traffic, generating snazzy open graph images, and more benholmen.com/blog/howtall...

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Building howtall.is

Yet again, Joe provided the spark: I immediately knew I needed to build an app to let internet friends guess your height and find out just how much they were under- or over-estimating how tall you ...

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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com · 06/12/2024

Quantization ftw

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My notes doc at work is just a single Google Doc I truncate the end off once it starts to lag.

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Perfect Saturday listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... (Spider-Man 2 was the better movie)

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just added the (brand new!) support for Llama 3.3 70B in WorkersAI to llm-cloudflare $ llm install llm-cloudflare $ llm -m "@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast" <PROMPT>

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Out of those: Crystal. But as far as "grocery store brands" go? Tapatio. Every time. (Never Cholula)

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We're (Cloudflare) are hiring for a Sr Product Manager that knows their OLAP from their OLTP, understands modern table formats, vector search, and/or has a willingness to become a domain expert in these areas. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/j...

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Job Application for Senior Product Manager - Query Engines & Vector Search at Cloudflare

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Matt Silverlock @elithrar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The team behind Cloudflare Workflows is hiring! 👇

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