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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Feb 19

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 11

I really liked Gradio for AI web apps but it felt limiting. Then FastHTML came along and I finally felt I could write real web apps myself.

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 11

Thanks! Jupyter was what drove me to set this up originally as well! Then I crashed my system when away and couldn't recover it so I added PiKVM. And just kept adding from there. It's so easy to do and I feel more secure with additional Cloudflare auth in front of the apps than with port forwarding.

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 8

Cursor with Sonnet 3.5. I sometimes will use O1 if I want to knock out a lot of code in 1 shot that has a common pattern that’s likely well represented in the training data. Doing things that aren’t well represented in the training data still requires a lot of supervision.

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 7

Unfortunately yes. This is expected. It’s not symmetrical like fiber.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Jan 6

Made a tiny tool to help turn a Bluesky handle into a DID: tools.simonwillison.net/bluesky-reso...

Resolve Bluesky handle to DID

UI text box containing simonwillison.net and a Resolve button

Below, the output:

did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 6

@howard.fm’s following list is good!

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 6

True! I use ephemeral VM’s through Databricks for data engineering work and I don’t think of them as serverless but I guess they are. When I think of severless I think of AWS Lambda with near instant starts and short runtimes.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Jan 4

I like Anthropic's "contextual retrieval" suggestion for creating chunks simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/20/...

Introducing Contextual Retrieval

Here's an interesting new embedding/RAG technique, described by Anthropic but it should work for any embedding model against any other LLM. One of the big challenges in implementing semantic search …

simonwillison.net

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 6

Welcome! Glad to have you!

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 6

Yea. Serverless is cool for small tasks but just doesn’t work for full applications without a lot of consideration if it works at all.

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 6

For sure! This is perfect for a college budget!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Jan 5

Looks like @graze.social exists already!

Their programming language is a nested JSON object of filters and Boolean operations: www.graze.social/docs/editor-...

bsky.app/profile/graz...

${ "filter": { "and": [ { "attribute_compare": [ "embed.external.uri", "==", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Ew6K0W3RY" ] }, { "regex_matches": ["text", "\\bthe\\b"] }, { "regex_negation_matches": ["text", "\\bunwanted_term\\b"] }, { "user_network": ["devingaffney.com", "in", "follows"] }, { "text_similarity": [ "text", { "anchor_text": "This is an important update", "model_name": "all-MiniLM-L6-v2" }, ">=", 0.3 ] },$

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 5

For starting out and especially for personal projects it just makes a lot of sense. You just don’t have to make an ‘investment decision’ every time you want to try something out. It’s ~free so just follow your curiosity!

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 5

Quarto is fantastic!!! Let me know if you have any questions 😀

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

🔥 Host your apps for FREE and simplify your infrastructure! 🚀

Tired of complex cloud hosting and the recurring bills that come with it? Host locally on hardware you already own and access anywhere with a browser. It's simpler than you think!

Learn how in my latest post. 🔗👇

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

And no, this isn't sponsored or anything, I just love @Cloudflare Tunnels and appreciate the generous free tier!

Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

blog.matdmiller.com/posts/2024-...
#selfhosting #cloudflare #homelab #developers @Cloudflare

Self-Hosting Your Applications for Free: A Guide to Cloudflare Tunnels – Mat’s Blog

blog.matdmiller.com

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

Quick start:
1. Point your domain to Cloudflare
2. Spin up the Cloudflare tunnel with Docker
3. Add your apps
4. Access them securely from anywhere

Questions about setting this up? Drop them below - I read every comment and love helping others get started!

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

I built an app that has helped my 2-year-old daughter start to read, apps to control 3D model software, and an app to stream local TV stations over the internet, along with a few others.

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

I've built half a dozen apps using FastHTML so far over the last 6 months ranging from a hundred lines to several thousand and it's been a delight to work with.

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

Want to build your own apps to run locally? You need to try FastHTML fastht.ml by @howard.fm. It's super easy and fast to get started. I struggled learning web development in the past, and this framework finally made it simple enough for me to really get started.

FastHTML

Modern web applications in pure Python

fastht.ml

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

The performance is impressive too - we're talking 500+ Mbps speeds, more than enough for most applications.

Want the really good news? @cloudflare Tunnels has a generous FREE tier and is super simple to use!

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

I've been running this setup for over a year, and it has transformed how I run apps and services. No more worrying about recurring fees, security exposure, and complex setups.

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