Mike Gray
@graywind.org
IT Professional. Nerd. Reader. Father. Husband.
I've been looking for a good local solution for eBook management for a while, and I think I found one: github.com/crocodilesti...
Some rough edges, but fewer than other Calibre apps I've found, and nothing a few PRs can't help fix!
Some rough edges, but fewer than other Calibre apps I've found, and nothing a few PRs can't help fix!
GitHub - crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated: Calibre-Web but Automated and with Many New Features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up!
Calibre-Web but Automated and with Many New Features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up! - crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
github.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I've been looking for a good local solution for eBook management for a while, and I think I found one: github.com/crocodilesti...
Some rough edges, but fewer than other Calibre apps I've found, and nothing a few PRs can't help fix!
Some rough edges, but fewer than other Calibre apps I've found, and nothing a few PRs can't help fix!
A few years ago, I set up a home Plex server with my old MP3 collection and set it up so I can stream my own music wherever I am. Not quite the same, but the feeling is similar.
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A few years ago, I set up a home Plex server with my old MP3 collection and set it up so I can stream my own music wherever I am. Not quite the same, but the feeling is similar.
Google built an empire on search…now I can’t even search gmail properly from the app.
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Google built an empire on search…now I can’t even search gmail properly from the app.
www.anti-planner.com
This is a very cool product and the creator has a massive sale going on, plus her site was down all of November. If this is something you or someone you know could benefit from, consider helping her out!
This is a very cool product and the creator has a massive sale going on, plus her site was down all of November. If this is something you or someone you know could benefit from, consider helping her out!
Home | Dani Donovan / Anti-Planner
www.anti-planner.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
www.anti-planner.com
This is a very cool product and the creator has a massive sale going on, plus her site was down all of November. If this is something you or someone you know could benefit from, consider helping her out!
This is a very cool product and the creator has a massive sale going on, plus her site was down all of November. If this is something you or someone you know could benefit from, consider helping her out!
I don’t recall where I found this but here, for your reading pleasure (very short story): web.archive.org/web/20190501...
They’re Made Out of Meat
web.archive.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I don’t recall where I found this but here, for your reading pleasure (very short story): web.archive.org/web/20190501...
www.meer.com/en/94775-the...
Thoughtful insights into what AI today lacks and how it may be architected in a more fundamentally human and useful way
Thoughtful insights into what AI today lacks and how it may be architected in a more fundamentally human and useful way
The architecture of silence
Designing empathic systems through delay, constraint, and resonant intelligence
www.meer.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
www.meer.com/en/94775-the...
Thoughtful insights into what AI today lacks and how it may be architected in a more fundamentally human and useful way
Thoughtful insights into what AI today lacks and how it may be architected in a more fundamentally human and useful way
Reposted by Mike Gray
I suddenly care oh so very much less about the CDK now that you can use GitHub Actions to straight up deploy your Lambda functions for you. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News
aws.amazon.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I suddenly care oh so very much less about the CDK now that you can use GitHub Actions to straight up deploy your Lambda functions for you. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
I'd actually love to see more systems designed for disengagement - where I can achieve my goals with the least work with the system, leaving me more for time & energy for what I choose (cf. the great Kathy Sierra & my own attention theft piece & also any number of detachment disciplines)
Incidentally when I say reconceptualize I don't mean "hey let's all stop using anthropomorphic phrases" or anything like that. If that's your thing that's fine, but it won't save us from this. I mean these systems have to be built differently, and we have the right to demand that.
June 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’ll take crimes against humanity for $500
![Text screenshot:
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4 yes: *🔥
5 no: &😊 "maybe"
6 maybe: *😊
7 123: !!bool "false"
8 nested:
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June 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’ll take crimes against humanity for $500
Reposted by Mike Gray
I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works
May 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works
The real reason John Connor had to die
May 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The real reason John Connor had to die
Reposted by Mike Gray
AT LAST!
Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront
ACM now offers automated public TLS certificates for CloudFront. Users can easily enable HTTPS by checking a box. ACM handles certificate requests, issuance, association, and renewal automatically for CloudFront distributions.
ACM now offers automated public TLS certificates for CloudFront. Users can easily enable HTTPS by checking a box. ACM handles certificate requests, issuance, association, and renewal automatically for CloudFront distributions.
April 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
AT LAST!
It doesn’t take much experimentation with RAG to identify some serious shortcomings outside of toy examples. This idea of “late chunking” helps alleviate some of the big ones I’ve come across.
isaacflath.com/blog/blog_po...
isaacflath.com/blog/blog_po...
Late Chunking: The Better Way to Embed Document Chunks
Solving the lost context problem in document retrieval with the embed-then-chunk approach
isaacflath.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It doesn’t take much experimentation with RAG to identify some serious shortcomings outside of toy examples. This idea of “late chunking” helps alleviate some of the big ones I’ve come across.
isaacflath.com/blog/blog_po...
isaacflath.com/blog/blog_po...
It’s tricky to ask questions of AWS these days.
April 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It’s tricky to ask questions of AWS these days.
Reposted by Mike Gray
Talking about Prime Air now, "when customers want 1-hour delivery." I won't be satisfied until Prime Railgun offers delivery times under 3/10ths of a second.
February 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Talking about Prime Air now, "when customers want 1-hour delivery." I won't be satisfied until Prime Railgun offers delivery times under 3/10ths of a second.
Some men just want to watch the world burn
February 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Some men just want to watch the world burn
Gave AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases a spin today and I’m impressed so far. Not a perfect solution for every use case, but one of the most frictionless AWS experiences I’ve had in a while. Now I have two Bedrock products I’m comfortable recommending!
Blog post on it soon
Blog post on it soon
January 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Gave AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases a spin today and I’m impressed so far. Not a perfect solution for every use case, but one of the most frictionless AWS experiences I’ve had in a while. Now I have two Bedrock products I’m comfortable recommending!
Blog post on it soon
Blog post on it soon
Reposted by Mike Gray
It's finally here! We've all been waiting so long, but AWS Console now supports MULTIPLE SESSIONS.
And yes, this works with IAM Identity Center and SSO too!
And yes, this works with IAM Identity Center and SSO too!
January 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's finally here! We've all been waiting so long, but AWS Console now supports MULTIPLE SESSIONS.
And yes, this works with IAM Identity Center and SSO too!
And yes, this works with IAM Identity Center and SSO too!
Reposted by Mike Gray
This is amazing! Also... blindly relying on advanced technology stifles genuine learning, reminding us of the critical need for foundational knowledge and continuous inquiry.
So the question is now, what is foundational knowledge? Weird place we are in now. Do we get better or go full Idiocracy?
So the question is now, what is foundational knowledge? Weird place we are in now. Do we get better or go full Idiocracy?
New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
January 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is amazing! Also... blindly relying on advanced technology stifles genuine learning, reminding us of the critical need for foundational knowledge and continuous inquiry.
So the question is now, what is foundational knowledge? Weird place we are in now. Do we get better or go full Idiocracy?
So the question is now, what is foundational knowledge? Weird place we are in now. Do we get better or go full Idiocracy?
Reposted by Mike Gray
A) This is amazing. Doom via PDF
B) Please could we have a document format that doesn't support a scripting language.
B) Please could we have a document format that doesn't support a scripting language.
I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file.
PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields.
doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf
github.com/ading2210/do...
PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields.
doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf
github.com/ading2210/do...
January 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A) This is amazing. Doom via PDF
B) Please could we have a document format that doesn't support a scripting language.
B) Please could we have a document format that doesn't support a scripting language.
Reposted by Mike Gray
⚠️ Warning: If you see agents as cloud resources you are getting ecosystem sold and it might not be in your benefit. Agents belong in code. AI is still moving fast and you want to be nimble for your Compound AI systems.
OpenAI Assistant API example logical (left) physical (right)
OpenAI Assistant API example logical (left) physical (right)
January 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
⚠️ Warning: If you see agents as cloud resources you are getting ecosystem sold and it might not be in your benefit. Agents belong in code. AI is still moving fast and you want to be nimble for your Compound AI systems.
OpenAI Assistant API example logical (left) physical (right)
OpenAI Assistant API example logical (left) physical (right)
Reposted by Mike Gray
As the new OSS Developer Advocate for AWS CDK, I was hired to help evolve the way AWS engages with the CDK community.
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
RFC 676: Contributor-Council-Charter.md by haubles · Pull Request #679 · aws/aws-cdk-rfcs
This is a request for comments about the proposed AWS CDK Contributor Council. See Tracking Issue #676 for discussion of the proposal.
By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contributi...
github.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As the new OSS Developer Advocate for AWS CDK, I was hired to help evolve the way AWS engages with the CDK community.
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution.
github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...
Reposted by Mike Gray
Oh, Ghostty, le nouveau Terminal Emulator développé par Mitchell Hashimoto (ex: Vagrant, Vault, Packer, Terraform…) est publié 👏
ghostty.org
ghostty.org
Ghostty
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
ghostty.org
December 27, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Oh, Ghostty, le nouveau Terminal Emulator développé par Mitchell Hashimoto (ex: Vagrant, Vault, Packer, Terraform…) est publié 👏
ghostty.org
ghostty.org
registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/surely-not...
I enjoy writing code, but not all code is equal. Sometimes I need the job done quickly, code’s the best way to do it, and if I can get an LLM to generate it that’s time I get to spend elsewhere.
LLMs augment value, not replace it.
I enjoy writing code, but not all code is equal. Sometimes I need the job done quickly, code’s the best way to do it, and if I can get an LLM to generate it that’s time I get to spend elsewhere.
LLMs augment value, not replace it.
Surely not all code's worth it
Listen to this: “I don’t use AI for programming, because I want to learn and get better at programming and if I have an LLM generate code for me, I’m not learning anything.”
registerspill.thorstenball.com
December 24, 2024 at 5:26 PM
registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/surely-not...
I enjoy writing code, but not all code is equal. Sometimes I need the job done quickly, code’s the best way to do it, and if I can get an LLM to generate it that’s time I get to spend elsewhere.
LLMs augment value, not replace it.
I enjoy writing code, but not all code is equal. Sometimes I need the job done quickly, code’s the best way to do it, and if I can get an LLM to generate it that’s time I get to spend elsewhere.
LLMs augment value, not replace it.