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Cheap OpenTelemetry lakehouses with parquet, duckdb and Iceberg

What if all your observability data was just parquet files?
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The unexpected joy of Claude Code on your iPhone

Stop doom scrolling, start mobile context coding? Optimizing Claude Code for coding on your phone with devcontainers and Tailscale.
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Rebooting San Francisco royalty: Emperor Norton meets GenAI

An experiment at the intersection of history, local culture, and bleeding edge artificial intelligence
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My neural net turned into an Apple zealot after training it on mid-1990s WIRED issues

I trained a bleeding-edge machine learning (ML) model with a dozen issues of WIRED magazine from the mid-1990s and things got weird. The…
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TCP/IP over Amazon Cloudwatch Logs

Running network services inside AWS Lambda Functions
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Using AI to generate an ICO white paper

With ICOs, or token sales of cryptocurrencies, having reportedly raised $2.3 billion in 2017, the time seemed right to use AI to generate a…
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Writing an Ethereum smart contract from the 19th century

Thought it’d be fun to explore blockchain hype and write a simple Ethereum smart contract based on an short story from the 19th century.
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Running Selenium and Headless Chrome on AWS Lambda

There seems to be a small community of developers building interesting browser things on AWS Lambda with Headless Chrome.
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SSH-ing into your AWS Lambda Functions

Finally proof that serverless has servers?
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