Today is my last day living in the wonderful borough of Brooklyn, New York. I've been here for the past 11 years, nearly all of it spent in a small two-bedroom...

… and then I remember how much I love my blog …

Don't worry, it's just me getting ready to write something new

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One of my favorite science fiction authors, Hugh Howey, has published a book of discussions with DeepSeek R1. When DeepSeek was released to the public, I gave it a test I've given other AIs. The results were astounding. What emerged was a conversation -- prompt and poetry -- that felt different from anything I'd played with before. The Algorithm that Learned to Listen 

I think the title of this blog post kinda sums it up. I’ve been testing out the new Extended Thinking capability with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock, and it’s just wow. In Bedrock, ju...

Anthropic released a major upgrade to their Claude Sonnet LLM today with version 3.7. Shortly after it was announced, Amazon announced availability via Amazon Bedrock, and shortly after that I went and made sure it works with Chat-CLI. It works! I didn't have to update any code at all as I am using Bedrock's Converse API. It just works as if it was always there.

Go (or Golang) is a great choice for building backends, APIs and all sorts of data processing programs for the cloud. Go is easy to learn, straightforward, and is surrounded by a vibrant and expansive community. It's also highly performant on AWS Lambda and has great support for concurrency. Go is awesome on AWS Lambda, but I always hear people complaining that it's difficult to get started.

I was delighted to watch this Keynote address from my former colleague and long time pal, Aaron Straup Cope. In it he makes a number of nice references to the projects we worked on together and the things I worked on after he and Seb Chan left the team at Cooper Hewitt. It’s been 15 years since and I’m amazed at how the work is still talked about across the sector.

If you have been following, I previously wrote about a writing project I did at the start of the year. It wound up being a lot of fun (and hard work) and resulted in something I am somewhat proud of. You can read all about it over on my Substack, which I created just for these kinds of projects. You can also subscribe if you are interested in the next project I'll be working on this summer.

This is a really useful and well explained blog post on how to apply the Principal of Least Privilege with Amazon Bedrock. This is a topic I get asked about on a regular basis. "How do I limit access to the LLMs available in Amazon Bedrock?" This blog post does a great job of explaining by example how to do just that!

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