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Short posts and thoughts, fetched from my Mastodon account at @micah@micah.social.
This archive is generated at build time — new posts appear here after each site deploy. To follow in real time, find me on Mastodon.
April 20, 2026 · 10:58 AM
Me and Claude dramatically updated the server this Mastodon instance runs on last night. I’ve been putting this off for literal years since launching this server, and we fixed it all up last night in about an hour.
I’ll post notes on what we did shortly. But it’s good to be back on here again after a little hiatus.
March 31, 2025 · 9:11 PM
A new non-technical project is in the works for the spring and into the summer months. Click here to follow along - https://micahwalter.substack.com/p/fight-for-your-rite-of-spring
March 29, 2025 · 6:20 PM
Years from now it will be cool to write code again, like how it’s cool to shoot film now.
March 4, 2025 · 4:47 AM
My short story, “Mike’s Place” is now available on Amazon for $5 or free on Kindle Unlimited.
https://a.co/74hq4BqFebruary 24, 2025 · 8:15 PM
One of the greatest album covers of all time. I mean, that’s graphic design at its peak!

February 9, 2025 · 7:29 PM
Hot take: we don’t need separate apps for words and photos.
January 30, 2025 · 1:52 PM
A great weight has been lifted after completing a long procrastinated and seemingly monumental task, which turned out to be not such a big deal after all.
January 7, 2025 · 8:53 PM
The final installment of “Mike’s Place” has landed. Hope you enjoyed this experiment of mine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/micahwalter/p/mikes-place-episode-5-of-5?r=ikkzq&utm_medium=ios
#mini1000
January 6, 2025 · 8:09 PM
Episode 4 is here. We’re nearly there.
https://open.substack.com/pub/micahwalter/p/mikes-place-episode-4-of-5?r=ikkzq&utm_medium=ios
January 4, 2025 · 8:16 PM
Part 2 has been birthed 🙏 - https://open.substack.com/pub/micahwalter/p/mikes-place-episode-2-of-5?r=ikkzq
January 3, 2025 · 9:06 PM
I made a new thing - https://micahwalter.substack.com/p/mikes-place-episode-1-of-5
December 16, 2024 · 7:33 PM
🙏 I’ve been reading Jeff Barr blogs for the past 20 years. His blogs were a major influence in my early days tinkering with EC2 and S3.
It’s an amazing accomplishment, and I’m glad he’s getting back to building stuff!
https://www.micahwalter.com/2024/12/jeff-barr-and-thats-a-wrap/
December 15, 2024 · 5:31 AM
My little chat program can now save your chats with Amazon Bedrock LLMs and list them on the command line.

December 6, 2024 · 7:15 PM
You can't do much without a domain name, so I got https://chat-cli.chat and asked Claude to make me a little website for it.
November 23, 2024 · 1:31 PM
Morning Claude sketch

November 21, 2024 · 4:16 AM
I'm excited for this announcement from AWS for Aurora Serverless, which can now scale to 0. Yay!
https://www.micahwalter.com/2024/11/aurora-serverless-scales-to-zero/
November 20, 2024 · 8:50 PM
Current situation

November 20, 2024 · 5:03 AM
I started collecting my p5.js sketches in this handy website, which I also built with an LLM

November 20, 2024 · 1:41 AM
This Tomberlin album is vey good, and the album cover design is giving web 1.0 vibes, which I am here for.

November 18, 2024 · 3:09 PM
Nice guide on Amazon Science to the 50+ papers accepted to this year's EMLNP conference - https://www.micahwalter.com/amazon-at-emnlp-2024/
November 16, 2024 · 6:52 PM
I was at a kids birthday party at this cool play space and they had this interactive trampoline thing, which I took a photo of, uploaded it to Claude and tried to get it to replicate some kind of version of the same thing in p5.js from my phone. It sort of worked?

November 15, 2024 · 2:58 PM
I made this with Claude and p5.js. I don't really know what it is. You can move the circle around with your finger like a magnifying glass. The gradient slowly changes.

November 14, 2024 · 7:16 PM
🤓 I've been having some fun getting Claude to write p5.js sketches for me. It's amazing how well it interprets my ideas and how quickly I can see the results and give feedback. Here's a quick one I did, which you can try out yourself in the bowser. Move your mouse around and click to add more nodes.
✍ Prompt: "OK, new sketch. Let's create a background that is dark gray. On top, create some firefly like nodes that move with a fluidity based on my mouse movements"
https://claude.site/artifacts/71c1d510-fee5-4a61-84d5-6ba291d54424

November 14, 2024 · 1:43 AM
Back to writing p5.js sketches, only this time with Claude. This is really lovely.

November 6, 2024 · 4:06 PM
Was just looking at this Mastodon instance which is still on v4.0.2. Doesn’t seem like there’s an easy upgrade path aside from step by step upgrading each version?
November 2, 2024 · 3:30 PM
It’s that time again 🥧
October 30, 2024 · 8:53 PM
Claude and I are building a website together. I wrote up some initial notes on how that's been going. https://notes.micahwalter.com/Building+my+new+website+with+Claude
September 21, 2024 · 8:13 PM
We’ve lost all hope

September 13, 2024 · 4:31 PM
I feel like I really want a reMarkable. Do I really need that?
September 11, 2024 · 12:48 PM
GenAI - turn bullets into text or text into bullets. That’s all it does!
September 8, 2024 · 10:03 PM
The 5yo has told me “I only want to listen to songs with a drop.”
August 30, 2024 · 2:45 AM
Photo blogging like it’s 2003
July 18, 2024 · 1:28 PM
Here’s an idea 💡
GitHub Actions, but they’re not in my source code.
July 15, 2024 · 6:51 PM
🤖 I used generative AI to write thousands of poems inspired by art. They’re mostly garbage, but the process of building these systems has opened my eyes to all kinds of possibilities.
🤓 This week I’m exploring two different approaches building off the same single idea. 💡
July 13, 2024 · 6:51 PM
I love this Frank Herbert quote
“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”
If you like it too, you might like my latest newsletter
July 12, 2024 · 11:29 PM
I’m getting the newsletter back in action. Every Saturday if I can! Subscribe if you are into AI, Cloud and Creativity.
Next issue drops tomorrow morning!
July 12, 2024 · 11:06 PM
Ok it’s this!
Ask and you shall receive.. great article on the exact topic I was thinking about
July 12, 2024 · 12:47 AM
🤯 We live in a whole new world. Amazon Q Developer has a new feature where you can reference your entire codebase with "workspace" within your prompt. It will use your entire codebase as part of its context in generating a response.
🧑💻 In this example, I'm asking Q to look across my code and suggest a strategy to modify what I've already written and use the new Converse API instead of how I did it originally.


July 11, 2024 · 7:26 PM
This wasn't the biggest announcement from the NYC Summit, but it's a really good one! If you are using Q Developer with Identity Center, you can extend the session for Q Developer to 90 days, independently of the default session length. Nice!
More details here

July 10, 2024 · 6:51 PM
🙋♂️ OK I’m just gonna ask. How do GenAI developers deal with the context window when building chat applications? As the convo progresses, the context just keeps growing.
What’s the trick to doing this at scale?
July 10, 2024 · 1:28 PM
🤓 I tried writing some actual code yesterday with my new Neovim and Warp setup. I did ok at first but eventually got frustrated with the indenting and error prompting I’m used to in VS Code.
👨💻 But I’m not giving up. Just need to remember it takes time to learn a new thing and remember skills I haven’t used in a long while. I’ll get there! 💪
July 9, 2024 · 6:51 PM
🗑️ Throwing my code under the bus is where I’m at this week. But, it’s for a good reason as I’m making things better for the future.
🧪 Spending time experimenting and being willing to start from scratch over and over is a tough pill to swallow but an incredibly powerful one.
July 9, 2024 · 1:28 PM
🤓 I received some feedback and a couple feature requests about Chat-CLI. Some of the ideas were things I had already considered, some were new ideas that I may implement.
🤯 But, the best feedback of all was when they said “thanks for building this, I use it every day” !!
July 8, 2024 · 7:34 PM
📖 I'm exploring the new Converse API this week as a potential replacement for a bunch of the code I wrote for chat-cli. So far it seems good and offers some capabilities I haven't even thought of yet.
🤔 But are there tradeoffs?
📺 Should I do this rewrite live?
July 3, 2024 · 8:02 PM
Next week is the AWS NYC Summit! Who’s gonna be there? Drop me a DM if you want to meet up!

June 15, 2024 · 11:45 PM
Wearing vintage defunct startup swag, is a vibe.

June 15, 2024 · 9:10 PM
Good to see you

June 11, 2024 · 10:19 AM
Installed Neovim on my Raspberry Pi last night. What the hell is going on?
June 2, 2024 · 7:16 PM
TIL if I do the Fremen desert walk across my living room I’m slightly less likely to step on a Lego.
June 2, 2024 · 1:45 PM
There’s something kinda nice about a freshly minted S3 bucket.
May 31, 2024 · 7:25 PM
🚀 The new Amazon Bedrock Converse API is what I’ve been waiting for and the reason I had to build https://github.com/go-micah/go-bedrock which is really just a bunch of model specific types.
💬 The Converse API means I don’t really need to do this anymore and I can dramatically simplify my code for chat-cli. Might be time for a quick rewrite.
Weekend project!
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-bedrock-new-converse-api
May 28, 2024 · 10:07 PM
I had a lot of fun chatting about Go and AWS Lambda on AWS Build On with Darko Mesaroš and Rohini Gaonkar - ICYMI - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2153202620
#aws #go #golang #serverless #live
May 9, 2024 · 11:47 PM
The 5yo, studying his Lego instruction booklet, discovered the idea of unique identifiers. And is now asking me to buy him sets by their ID.
May 2, 2024 · 5:34 PM
Which one are you?
April 14, 2024 · 3:15 PM
Apple should make a thing called AirPlay+ or whatever where I can wirelessly connect my phone to the screen on the back of any headrest on any airline and it has all the movies there are.
April 9, 2024 · 1:52 AM
I drew a diagram to explain the eclipse to the 5yo. He threw it in the trash and said “next Passover I’m not doing the glasses ever again!”
April 8, 2024 · 8:30 PM
Ok this didn’t work 🌑

April 2, 2024 · 11:16 AM
I really enjoyed this article by @simon wondering if there’s a smart way to round up release notes each week into a blog post.
April 1, 2024 · 11:28 PM
No idea how this happened but my IG reel feed is nothing but asmr farrier and I’m 💯 hoofed, I mean hooked.
March 22, 2024 · 6:33 PM
📺 30 minutes from now, at 3pm ET, join me for another episode of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement"
🧑💻 Today we picking up where we left off with DynamoDB and Go 🖼️
https://www.youtube.com/@micahwalter76/streams
#go #live #aws #serverless #genai
March 21, 2024 · 4:15 PM
🤯 why is this still a thing?
1. Clicks unsubscribe from marketing email.
2. Taken to web page where I have to deselect all the things I don't want and click submit
3. Taken to a "why did you unsubscribe feedback form"
4. Receive email confirming I am now unsubscribed with link at bottom to opt out of updates to email preferences notifications
5. Clicks that link and taken to another page to let me know it's finally over.March 20, 2024 · 7:04 PM
📸 The latest release of chat-cli adds support for image generation with models from Stability AI and Amazon Titan. This means you can create all the cat pics you want, right from the command line! (Powered by Amazon Bedrock!)
🐱🐈😻🙀

#genai #go #aws #bedrock #cats
March 19, 2024 · 9:17 PM
People.. DUNE looks insanely bad. Like a psychotic sequel to Beetlejuice. What am I missing?. https://youtu.be/7B1nfv65xQY?si=cQPHNAzDd7fAk4Cu
March 15, 2024 · 6:28 PM
📺 30 minutes from now, at 3pm ET, join me for another episode of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement"
🧑💻 Today we will extend the capabilities of our poem generator service! 🖼️
https://www.youtube.com/@micahwalter76/streams
#go #live #aws #serverless #genai
March 15, 2024 · 5:50 PM
🚀 🧑💻 It's still "wet paint" but I've got basic image analysis happening with Anthropic Claude 3 via chat-cli! Results are so good!
Video#claude3 #anthropic #bedrock #aws #genai
March 14, 2024 · 12:51 PM
Happy Pi day! What will you build?

March 14, 2024 · 1:33 AM
Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku was released today and already available on Amazon Bedrock, which means it's already available on chat-cli !
#genai #anthropic #claude3 #aws #bedrock #golang
March 13, 2024 · 12:42 AM
What is the current state of the art for dev machines? Are people using Codespaces and GitPod type setups all day long, or do laptops still rule the roost?
March 12, 2024 · 12:58 AM
Still lots to do on this, like add streaming support and image upload support, but `chat-cli` now supports Anthropic Claude3 Sonnet. w00t!
March 10, 2024 · 1:59 AM
📺 6 weeks of "going live" - Here's all my livestreams in one place with chapter markers too!
https://www.micahwalter.com/6-weeks-of-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement/
#micahtv
March 8, 2024 · 6:58 PM
📺 60 minutes from now, at 3pm ET, join me for another episode of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement" on Twitch.tv OR YouTube Live!!
🧑💻 Today we will dig into publishing Go packages and may even try out Claude 3! 🖼️
https://www.youtube.com/@micahwalter76/streams
#go #live #aws #serverless #genai
March 8, 2024 · 3:47 PM
Pi day is approaching and I kinda want to celebrate by buying a new Raspberry Pi. No idea what I'm gonna use it for, but it's been a while and they seem very capable now!
March 6, 2024 · 4:02 AM
I've upgraded `go-micah/go-bedrock` to use Anthropic's Messages API. This means you can use it with Claude 3.
#bedrock #anthropic #claude3 #aws #golang #go
March 4, 2024 · 1:11 PM
An LLM big enough to understand my car’s owners manual… now that would be something.
March 3, 2024 · 2:27 PM
Whatever it is that you're working on or working towards, don't give up. Keep doing it, keep trying things, keep experimenting until you get it right, and then experiment some more. Don't ever stop. Change directions, try something new, and try old things again. Just don't quit.

March 1, 2024 · 7:32 PM
📺 30 minutes from now, at 3pm ET, join me for another episode of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement"
🧑💻 Today we will improve and refactor our project that writes poems inspired by art 🖼️
March 1, 2024 · 5:44 PM
🤯 I used Amazon Transcribe and Anthropic Claude to use my voice to write a blog post. It came out pretty good I think, even if it thinks I'm a sculptor who trains neural networks on the weekends.
#aws #bedrock #genai #llm #anthropic
https://www.micahwalter.com/turning-my-voice-into-blog-posts-with-amazon-transcribe-and-bedrock/
#aws #bedrock #genai #llm #anthropic
March 1, 2024 · 12:43 AM
💡Voice Memo App -> Amazon Transcribe -> Amazon Bedrock LLM -> Blog Post
🤷♂️ Think it will work?
February 24, 2024 · 8:31 PM
Trying to explain that you can pare a pair of pears to the 5yo is not going well.
February 23, 2024 · 6:34 PM
📺 90 minutes from now, at 3pm ET, join me for another episode of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement" on Twitch.tv OR YouTube Live!!
🧑💻 Today we will continue working on our project that writes poems inspired by art 🖼️ with Go, AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock and more.
Tune in at either of the links below:
YouTube Live - https://www.youtube.com/@micahaws
Twitch.TV - https://www.twitch.tv/micahwalter

#go #live #aws #serverless #genai
February 22, 2024 · 1:49 AM
📺 If you've ever wanted to know how to run an http server on AWS Lambda, check out this short video where I go over how you can combine new features released in Go 1.22 with the very lovely AWS Lambda Web Adapter to do just that!
#aws #serverless #lambda #golang
February 17, 2024 · 1:14 PM
📺 ICYMI S1 E3 is now available on YouTube. We got the "art inspired poem generator" working on AWS Lambda and contemplated asynchronous request vs. cached responses. It was a h00t!
#go #aws #bedrock #serverless #genai
February 16, 2024 · 7:09 PM
📺 1 hour from now, at 3pm ET, join me for another episode of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement"
🧑💻 Today we will building a service that writes poems inspired by art 🖼️
YouTube Live - https://www.youtube.com/@micahaws
Twitch.TV - https://www.twitch.tv/micahwalter
February 15, 2024 · 8:08 PM
🧑💻 I completely rewrote chat-cli from scratch. It's much more simple now and the CLI interface makes way more sense.
🚀 chat-cli allows you to interact with LLMs available via Amazon Bedrock from the command line. You can send a prompt to an LLM with one command, or start an interactive chat session. You can read in documents from stdin and set config flags to adjust your LLM prompts to taste.
#amazon #bedrock #genai #generative #chat #go
February 13, 2024 · 1:40 AM
📺 Episode 2 of "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement" is now on YouTube and on my website.
🖼️ Come check it out as I wind my way through building a little poem generator inspired by the collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
🚀 And join me this Friday at 3pm ET as we continue to build the project out further!
#go #live #aws #cloud #bedrock #serverless
https://www.micahwalter.com/s1-e2-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement/
#go #live #aws #cloud #bedrock #serverless
February 10, 2024 · 5:27 AM
🧑💻 ICYMI episode 2 is now up on my YouTube channel. In this one we learn about API Gateway, Amazon Bedrock, Marshaling and Unmarshaling data in Go and more!
#buildstuff
February 9, 2024 · 6:06 PM
🚨Tune in LIVE today at 3pm ET for more "Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement. 📺
🚀 Today we're gonna pick up where we left off with getting to know Go and AWS Lambda by building a little service that uses Amazon Bedrock to generate poetry inspired by art! 🖼️
🤷♂️ Will it work?
#go #golang #live #aws #lambda #serverless #genai #bedrock
February 7, 2024 · 12:40 AM
Cigar cutter, but for chapstick.
February 6, 2024 · 12:42 AM
🤷♂️ A few quick thoughts on last week's livestream and what's to come. 🚀
#cloud #aws #live #serverless #lambda #go #golang
https://www.micahwalter.com/s1-e1-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement/
#cloud #aws #live #serverless #lambda #go #golang
February 3, 2024 · 9:21 PM
🧑💻ICYMI you can watch "Building things on AWS in my Basement" episode 1 via the links below.
🚀 Doing a livestream was lots of fun. I had minor technical issues at the beginning but figured them out on the fly and powered through.
📺 Next week we're gonna try Amazon Bedrock!.
Show Archives - https://youtu.be/1L1KDe4yPcs?si=vlY9aM8mvu0sqv4F
Twitch Channel - https://www.twitch.tv/micahwalter
S1E1 Notes - https://notes.micahwalter.com/Live+Stream+Notes/2024-02-01+Live+Stream+Notes
February 3, 2024 · 4:21 PM
✍️ I've been keeping "week-notes" this year and making them public via Obsidian Publish. Does anyone else do this?
February 2, 2024 · 6:55 PM
🛎️ Hey! I’ll be Live “Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement” at 3pm ET! That’s an hour from now!
🚀 Come learn how to get started with Go and AWS Lambda!
🤷♂️ Or just tune in to check out my basement…
February 2, 2024 · 11:12 AM
Hey 👋 !! I’m gonna “go live” today at 3pm ET on Twitch! Tune in and watch me get my computer set up for Go development on AWS Lambda. It’s gonna be a hoot!
#aws #twitch #hack #lambda #golang #serverless
https://www.micahwalter.com/building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement
#aws #twitch #hack #lambda #golang #serverless
January 28, 2024 · 6:15 PM
Whenever someone reaches out to me via someone else's recommendation it feels good. Especially when it's someone I don't know too well (or at all) doing the recommending.
Do this. Suggest to someone who looks up to you, that they reach out to someone you trust on a topic.
January 4, 2024 · 6:47 PM
✍️ Today I learned how to use Amazon DynamoDB Streams to trigger a new build in AWS Amplify
#aws #serverless #amplify #dynamodb
Here's how I did it. - https://www.micahwalter.com/trigger-builds-in-aws-amplify-with-dynamodb/
#aws #serverless #amplify #dynamodb
January 3, 2024 · 3:01 AM
✍️ Today I learned a bit about AWS Lambda deployment package size limitations.
💡I came up with a few strategies for dealing with the limits.
🤷♂️ What did I forget?
#til #aws #serverless #lambda #python #cloud
January 3, 2024 · 12:43 AM
🧑💻Back at it today. Hope you all had a great holiday break! 🚀

#aws
December 5, 2023 · 2:00 AM
☝️This was my first time presenting at AWS re:Invent. It was an incredible experience and the support I received along the way was nothing short of amazing. Big shoutout to Steve and the content teams for helping us keep it together!
🌎I was being serious when I said "we have to start thinking about how we can embed these discussions into everything that we do" - going into 2024 I'm going to make sustainability a top priority for myself and anyone I work with.
December 5, 2023 · 1:59 AM
📽️The recording of my breakout session on sustainability is now available on YouTube! Congrats to Stephanie, John and Rakshit. We did it!
#aws #reinvent2023 #sustainability #graviton #green
December 1, 2023 · 6:41 PM
If I learned one thing from #awsreinvent2023 it’s that I need to walk more. Maybe not this much, but more.

#awsreinvent2023
December 1, 2023 · 6:22 AM
Oh it’s the last night of re:Invent

November 29, 2023 · 11:17 PM
🚀 Chat with Amazon Q right in VS Code 🚀
Video#reinvent2023 #aws #generatieveai
November 29, 2023 · 9:20 PM
Woosh!

November 29, 2023 · 3:38 PM
It’s go time! Come join me at my session on sustainability in the cloud ☁️ at 10am in MGM 120!

#aws #reinvent2023 #sustainability
November 28, 2023 · 4:41 PM
#reinvent2023 day 1 - I walked a bit

#reinvent2023
November 26, 2023 · 2:43 PM

#aws #reinvent
November 21, 2023 · 5:52 PM
✍️ I wrote a simple wrapper around the Amazon Bedrock SDK for Go to make it even easier to send prompts to any LLM supported by Bedrock.

#aws #bedrock #genai #go #golang
November 15, 2023 · 3:34 AM
#go #golang #aws #bedrock #genai #amazon #anthropic #claude
November 15, 2023 · 3:32 AM
🤔 I'm extracting some of the wrapper code I wrote for chat-cli and making it a Go Package that anyone can use to build Go programs with all of the foundation models available in Amazon Bedrock.
🤷♂️ Initially the idea was to make it a little easier to make calls to the Bedrock API, but now I'm finding this exercise valuable to help me think through what I have created so far.
👨💻The code below is an example of how you might make a call Bedrock using the wrapper and Anthropic’s Claude LLM

#go
November 14, 2023 · 1:10 AM
✍️ Chat-CLI has been updated to support the new availability of Meta's Llama 2 LLM in Amazon Bedrock, which was announced just today!
🚀 First impressions... it's fast! REALLY FAST!

#meta #llama2 #genai #amazon #bedrock #go #golang
November 13, 2023 · 5:23 PM
Ok “termshot” is quite nice!

November 7, 2023 · 8:58 PM
✍️ #TIL all about setting up a CI/CD pipeline with AWS SAM Pipelines and GitHub Actions for a Go Serverless application! Woosh!
#til #aws #sam #cicd #go #golang
November 6, 2023 · 10:19 PM
✍️ #TIl You can create your own starter templates for AWS SAM!
#lambda #aws #go #serverless #sam
https://www.micahwalter.com/a-sam-starter-template-for-serverless-go-projects/
#til #lambda #aws #go #serverless #sam
November 3, 2023 · 5:43 PM
✍️ #TIL How to work the Amazon Bedrock streaming response API and Go - It's Go Channels!
#go #golang #amazon #aws #bedrock #genai
https://www.micahwalter.com/working-with-amazon-bedrocks-streaming-response-api-and-go/
#til #go #golang #amazon #aws #bedrock #genai
November 3, 2023 · 12:43 PM
✍️ "Amazon Bedrock is a new service from AWS that offers customers "_The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models._" It provides a unified API to access a growing list of foundation models without having to worry about provisioning infrastructure."
💡I've been building a command line for interacting with foundation models through Amazon Bedrock.
https://www.micahwalter.com/building-a-generative-ai-cli-with-amazon-bedrock-and-go/
#ai #bedrock #go #golang
November 2, 2023 · 7:25 PM
✍️ #TIL How I wrote a very simple TTY style chat loop in Go
https://www.micahwalter.com/a-super-simple-tty-interface-in-go/
#til #go #golang
November 1, 2023 · 9:21 PM
🚀 I finally got around to writing up a blog post on my experience with building a command line program with Amazon Bedrock and Go.
😮 Check it out! - https://www.micahwalter.com/building-a-generative-ai-cli-with-amazon-bedrock-and-go/
#amazon #go #bedrock #generativeai #genai #llm
October 30, 2023 · 8:28 PM
☝️One of my favorite uses of chat-cli is the ability to pipe files in through stdin. In this example I'm asking Anthropic's Claude to "explain" main.go. It did a really good job!

#amazon #bedrock #genai #generative #aws #go #golang
October 29, 2023 · 2:58 AM
🚀 I just gave chat-cli a major upgrade! You can now choose between any LLMs you've enabled within your Amazon Bedrock settings. Then, simply add the "model-id" flag at the command line. So far I've implemented Cohere, Anthropic, AI21 and Stability.ai.
📷 Images! With Stability.ai enabled, you can now generate images from the command line and save them to local disk.
#aws #cli #bedrock #amazon #amazonbedrock #genai #stability #stablediffusion

#aws #cli #bedrock #amazon #amazonbedrock #genai #stability #stablediffusion
October 28, 2023 · 12:02 AM
Fascinating read on the June 13th Lambda Service Event.
#cloud #aws #lambda #ops #serverless
October 25, 2023 · 11:06 PM
💬 chat-cli can now read from stdin. In this example I am using the linux pipe command "|" to read in the contents of Amazon's 1997 Letter to Shareholders and then adding a prompt to summarize the doc before streaming the response back to the terminal.
Neat!
Video#go #golang #bedrock #amazon #aws #genai
October 25, 2023 · 2:08 AM
Re: https://llm.datasette.io/ from @simon
October 25, 2023 · 1:31 AM
🚀 Completely revamped my little chat-cli program today to take advantage of the very awesome Cobra and Viper packages for building ClI programs in Go. Now chat-cli has "commands" like "prompt" and "chat" and "help."
✍️ Next up I'm gonna start expanding its capabilities to allow you to select from the various LLMs available through Amazon Bedrock.
💡Lots of inspiration from Simon Wilisons lovely "llm" command line tool.

#aws #genai #bedrock #llm #go #golang
October 20, 2023 · 7:12 PM
After six years one of the four 12TB drives in my Synology NAS has failed. 😨
October 20, 2023 · 12:54 AM
🚀 Learn how to migrate a Go application to AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 Instances. With Graviton-based instances, you can achieve up to 40% better price performance and up to 60% lower energy to help you achieve your cost and sustainability goals.
https://community.aws/tutorials/building-go-applications-for-aws-graviton
#amazon #aws #ec2 #graviton #cloud #go #developer
October 19, 2023 · 6:56 PM
🚨 Very exited to be attending and presenting at AWS re:Invent this year!
♻️ Ill be speaking along with Annalect’s John Briscoe and Amazon Advertising’s Rakshit Uppal on the topic of Sustainability in AdTech.
🚀 Click the link below to grab a nice guide to all AdTech related sessions.
#aws #reinvent2023 #cloud #green
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/learn/attendee-guides/advertising-and-marketing/
#aws #reinvent2023 #cloud #green
October 16, 2023 · 10:06 PM
I finally figured out the Amazon Bedrock streaming response API using the Go SDK.
VideoOctober 5, 2023 · 5:07 PM
I just published a new Serverless Pattern, hopefully the first of many, that help developers build with Go on AWS.
https://serverlessland.com/patterns/firehose-transformation-sam-go
October 2, 2023 · 9:12 PM
I expanded my little chat program to be conversational. All I had to do was to adjust the code to send the full conversation back to Amazon Bedrock with each API request. This allows the LLM (Anthropic Claude v2 in my case) to remember our prior messages and use that as context for new responses.
#aws #genai #bedrock #anthropic #claude #cloud #chatbots #aiml #amazon #llm
Video#aws #genai #bedrock #anthropic #claude #cloud #chatbots #aiml #amazon #llm
September 29, 2023 · 2:26 PM
Here’s the code for my little chat program built on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude V2.
September 29, 2023 · 1:20 AM
The AWS SDK for Go was updated a few hours ago with support for Amazon Bedrock and I couldn’t wait to try it out and built this little command line assistant.
VideoSeptember 23, 2023 · 4:57 PM
Here’s something I was working on 8 years ago. 🤷♂️

September 2, 2023 · 5:40 PM
Fender Guitars getting into crypto a little late to the game.
August 22, 2023 · 12:16 AM
📘The Guidance includes a Reference Architecture, which aims to demonstrate how to deploy the basics along with a number of additional considerations, depending on your preferences. Additionally, there is a detailed Implementation Guide to help you get everything configured and working via the AWS Console.
August 22, 2023 · 12:16 AM
🤯 This guidance helps customers configure and deploy a server-side data collection container for use with Google Tag Manager on AWS. This means you can continue to use Google Tag Manager to instrument your tagging configuration while sending that same data to the wide selection of analytics services and tools available on AWS!
August 22, 2023 · 12:15 AM
🚀 I’m excited to share the launch of a new Solution Guidance on the AWS website, Guidance for Using Google Tag Manager for Server Side Website Analytics on AWS.

#cloud #aws #google #analytics #marketing #gtm #ga4
July 26, 2023 · 1:56 PM
I’m excited to share my first contribution to the Go community on AWS with this blog post on how to update your AWS Lambda functions for use with Go. This is a significant change, so if you are running Go on Lambda be sure to check it out!
#aws #golang #serverless #lambda
July 21, 2023 · 12:14 AM
Clean Room Step’n

July 20, 2023 · 11:55 PM
It took me a long time to jump in and try AWS Step Functions, but wow am I glad I did!
July 19, 2023 · 12:25 PM
I’m wondering what will happen with Threads adds ActivtyPub. Mostly curious the impact this will have on all our small to micro servers running on the fediverse.
July 11, 2023 · 3:44 AM
Why am I up at midnight thinking about “hard drive in the sky” … what is that?!
July 10, 2023 · 2:50 PM
What is your go to for securely sharing an ssh key 🔑 ? For example, if you want to move the key to another machine 🖥️ on another network?
July 8, 2023 · 1:49 PM
Great blog post with some nice visualizations of how AWS Lambda invoke throttling works.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/understanding-aws-lambdas-invoke-throttle-limits/
July 7, 2023 · 10:58 PM
TIL every AWS Lambda log group in CloudWatch represents a single execution environment.
July 7, 2023 · 1:49 AM
Today I’ve been exploring the new EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint service, which led me to make some notes on the various ways you can connect to an EC2 server in a private subnet.
https://notes.micahwalter.com/Connecting+to+servers+in+private+subnets
June 30, 2023 · 2:54 PM
Every night, I get ready for bed and realize I’ve left my AirPods on my desk in the basement.
Every morning, I sit down at my desk and realize I’ve left my AirPods on my nightstand all the way upstairs.
I know, I know..
June 26, 2023 · 4:07 AM
Some red things I saw.
#color #film #photography #35mm #leica #summicron #summicron35mm


#color #film #photography #35mm #leica #summicron #summicron35mm
June 24, 2023 · 2:49 AM



June 24, 2023 · 2:49 AM



June 24, 2023 · 2:48 AM
A day in Brooklyn from November, 2021, found on a roll of film just processed.
#film #leica #leicam2 #summicron #35mm #summicron35mm #color #kodak #portra #portra400 #brooklyn #friends #family #children #prospectpark

#film #leica #leicam2 #summicron #35mm #summicron35mm #color #kodak #portra #portra400 #brooklyn #friends #family #children #prospectpark
June 21, 2023 · 12:31 AM
I’m starting to keep some notes on how I set up my own #AWS accounts for personal projects.
What else should I be thinking about?
https://notes.micahwalter.com/Setting+up+an+AWS+account+for+personal+things
#aws
June 17, 2023 · 12:27 AM
I need to do some screen recordings with a webcam at the same time. What’s good software for the Mac for this?
June 16, 2023 · 2:04 AM
We all went out for dinner. 🍺

#photography #color #iphone #suburbs #longisland
June 15, 2023 · 6:55 PM
I created this image with the Stable Diffusion JumpStart on Amazon SageMaker. It was super easy to spin up an example notebook and start entering prompts through SageMaker Studio. Can’t wait to continue exploring what you can do with #generativeAI on #AWS. ✨🎨 #AIinnovation #SageMakerStudio #UnleashCreativity

#generativeai #aws #aiinnovation #sagemakerstudio #unleashcreativity
June 15, 2023 · 12:44 AM


#iphone #color #suburbs
June 8, 2023 · 8:39 PM
Solved: it’s “I won’t pretend” not “one potato” -
https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-is-stronger-than-pride/211676462?i=211676463
June 8, 2023 · 8:21 PM
Update: ChatGPT came up empty.

June 8, 2023 · 7:39 PM
I have a song stuck in my head by Sade, but I don’t know the real words.. all I know is it goes like “one potato” and then a long pause.. what song is it?!
June 7, 2023 · 3:04 PM
Someone just told me there’s more caffeine in light roast coffee?!?!?!
June 1, 2023 · 1:46 PM
How many showers or baths do you take before getting a new towel?
June 1, 2023 · 1:19 AM
I stumbled upon a really good series of YouTube videos about mostly young street photographers in NYC, mostly shooting film..
It’s called “Walkie Talkie” and the one with Andre Wagner (photodre) is v good..
#photography #streetphotography #photodre #bw #leica
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEZD_EqdEEVK9xlpkr7Vxs_gz9FHCCEbq
#photography #streetphotography #photodre #bw #leica
June 1, 2023 · 12:21 AM
I got this little fridge because it says it has “AI” but it does not have AI at all.

#ai
May 31, 2023 · 12:39 AM
I logged into Twitter after a really long time. I'd say about 99% of the tweets in my timeline are from people I don't follow or ads about things I don't care about.
Every tweet is about how to leverage Generative AI. How Photoshop's new AI feature is going to change the world forever, and how ChatGPT plugins can help me improve my life.
So basically nothing has changed.
May 26, 2023 · 8:48 PM
Windows down

#iphone #suburbs #longisland #newyork #classiccars
May 23, 2023 · 5:53 PM
Shooting, developing, and having 35mm film scanned in 2023 costs about as much per photo as Polaroid was in 1993. But even at about $1 per picture, I’d say it’s still worth it!
#film #35mm #filmisnotdead #portra400 #ishootfilm
May 17, 2023 · 9:35 PM
Current kit with new straps by Simplr. #fuji #fujifilm_xseries #leica #film #digital

#fuji #fujifilm_xseries #leica #film #digital
May 14, 2023 · 5:02 PM
Happy Mothers Day to my beautiful wife, and all the moms out there in the world. 👩 👩❤️👨 👨👩👦👨👩👧👦



May 11, 2023 · 9:36 PM
I recently over-provisioned on these white IKEA shelves. The upside is that my little vinyl record collection was able to graduate from being stored in the bottom of the cabinet on the left to the new shelves on the right with some room to scale.

May 10, 2023 · 12:51 PM
Fascinating and thoughtful take on the reactions to the Prime Video article.
May 8, 2023 · 12:25 PM
Maximizing the days before the mosquitos come.



#fujifim #iphone #photogaghy
May 4, 2023 · 10:22 PM
Recent addition.

April 26, 2023 · 12:53 PM
I just bought 8 light bulbs at Target and it was $65.
April 25, 2023 · 4:37 PM
I’ve been working my way through each of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. Last night I finished Captain America - The Winter Soldier. It was pretty good, and pulled together a lot of the plot lines from the previous movie.
Then I watched the first twenty minutes of the next film called Guardians of the Galaxy. WTF is going on?! Vin Diesel is in this?
April 25, 2023 · 1:08 AM
I need a 10Gb network in my home, don’t I?
April 24, 2023 · 9:29 PM
I’ve been working on something like this off and on for a while and have never gotten it to a state that is practical for daily use.
This post is just what I’ve been looking for! (h/t @Quinnypig )
https://treeandforest.substack.com/p/my-other-computer-is-amazon-ec2
#ec2 #aws #cloud
April 24, 2023 · 7:06 PM
Rant of the day: At my local UPS Store, if you have a pre-paid label on your phone, they can't just scan it and print it for you.
Instead, you have to email it to a random Gmail address, and then they charge $3.25 "printing fee" to print the label.
I also get annoyed when I have to pay a "credit card fee" ... especially at the gas station.
April 22, 2023 · 11:26 PM
Spring stuff.

#photography #lightroom
April 22, 2023 · 4:58 PM
Which came first?

April 22, 2023 · 12:51 PM
Yesterday I picked up our 4y/o and walked over to the playground where we found a group of elementary school kids hanging out. They were discussing ChatGPT.
April 22, 2023 · 12:11 AM
I went for a walk today and found this little spot.

#photography #fujifilm_xseries #color
April 21, 2023 · 10:57 AM
Isrotel, a hotel tower in Tel Aviv, Israel.

#photography #archives #israel
April 20, 2023 · 11:20 AM
I finished Iron Man 3 last night. I think maybe I’ve seen it before on a long flight or something.
How come Jarvis never says “By the way, I can add toilet paper to your shopping cart. Just say “add toilet paper to my shopping cart.” Would you like me to add toilet paper now?”
April 17, 2023 · 1:18 PM
Found this old mill. “Let’s make a pancake!”

#photography #blackandwhite
April 17, 2023 · 12:43 AM
OK I just finished Thor. It was good! Like a breath of fresh air without Robert Downey Jr. Feels like we haven't seen that last of that Loki dude. And there's Jeremy Renner!
April 16, 2023 · 5:04 PM
Last night I watched Iron Man 2. It was decent. I really liked Mickey Rourke’s character. But I didn’t understand how all the sudden there’s Sam Jackson with an eye patch? Like he just appears with zero backstory or introduction and then he’s gone.
April 15, 2023 · 11:19 PM
I've never watched any of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films except Iron Man. Should I do this? Any tips?
April 14, 2023 · 11:19 PM
I used generative AI to make myself a new pair of glasses. #chatgpt #ai #generative #🤓

#chatgpt #ai #generative
April 14, 2023 · 8:45 PM
I installed an app to remind every 20 mins to look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
This works especially nice with my new "computer glasses."
April 14, 2023 · 3:59 PM
“Make me a Lambda function in the style of Rembrandt but add a little Netflix engineering opinionated observability” - this is gonna be a fun year! #aws #ai
#aws #ai
April 13, 2023 · 5:20 PM
New tools for building generative AI projects on #AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-new-tools-for-building-with-generative-ai-on-aws/
#aws
April 11, 2023 · 12:05 AM
❤️ Game changer ❤️ - Vercel now available via the AWS Marketplace - #aws #cloud #devops #serverless
#aws #cloud #devops #serverless
April 10, 2023 · 1:35 PM
I just learned I can use @drafts to post to Mastodon.
April 9, 2023 · 12:20 PM
I raised an eyebrow at him, nothing but blue skies overhead, but of course his prediction came true and we all rejoiced as the sky opened up. Later we gorged ourselves on the lamb, and shared food and stories until the dawn.
April 9, 2023 · 12:20 PM
The Samaritans follow the Bible letter by letter. During Passover they dig large holes in the ground and create smoking pits which they use to cook fresh lamb. Every bit is used. It's a sort of rite of passage for young boys to be involved in the slaughter.
One man told me this: just watch, every year it's the same.. at the moment of the slaughter it will begin to rain, like God crying over the sacrifice.
April 9, 2023 · 12:18 PM
Happy Passover, everyone. 🙏 Twenty years ago I attended Passover in Nablus, Palestine, where I spent the night all by myself, on a bedroll in a gymnasium before photographing the "Samaritan Passover." It was by far one of the most interesting, grotesque, and spiritually moving moments of my life.
#photography #passover #Israel #palestine #samaritans #bible

#photography #passover #israel #palestine #samaritans #bible
April 6, 2023 · 11:05 AM
Today it will be cloudy, sunny, partly cloudy, raining, and between 47 and 76 degrees.
April 5, 2023 · 12:31 PM
The 4yo found a little 1min sand timer in one of his games and now he’s essentially pomodoro timing everything he does and everything I do.
April 5, 2023 · 2:36 AM
why are there so many notes apps?
March 26, 2023 · 2:46 PM
What are you over-indexing on today?
March 22, 2023 · 5:11 PM
I was recently in a #serverless workshop where in the demo the idea was to use the logs to trigger transactional emails.. like a shopper buys a thing on a website, and a log is generated that triggers sending an email to the customer.
Is this how people do things now?!?!
#serverless
March 21, 2023 · 7:30 PM
AWS Clean Rooms is now GA!!
#aws #cloud #adtech #cleanrooms
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-clean-rooms-now-generally-available/
#aws #cloud #adtech #cleanrooms
March 19, 2023 · 4:51 PM
Birthday breakfast followed by birthday brunch and this birthday beer! 🍺 🎂

March 18, 2023 · 12:58 PM
If I use the coffee maker to brew six cups of coffee, my wife drinks half a mug and I drink the rest, how many cups have I had?
March 18, 2023 · 12:35 AM
Fascinating demo with @jeremydaly on the upcoming Ampt. Very excited for this!
#cloud #developers #cde
March 13, 2023 · 9:50 PM
While watching the Oscars, I made some updates to my “fizzbuzz” package including a test suite, support for “0”, and a move to the modulo operator.
#golang
March 12, 2023 · 6:02 PM
Pennsylvania Station, New York City

#photography
March 11, 2023 · 1:13 PM
Wondering if I can run Logstash on AWS App Runner. Hmmm.
March 11, 2023 · 12:57 AM
I’m building a cool data collector thing for web analytics. It’s all working but wondering how to organize and store all the data.
March 8, 2023 · 9:49 PM
And SNL skit with Fred Armisen as George Santos, breaking into an apartment to feed imaginary fish is what we all need this weekend. Please boost!
March 6, 2023 · 12:38 PM
I’ve been waiting YEARS for this! Hands down, one of the best sci-fi trilogies I’ve ever read, Hugh Howey’s Silo Series, has been made into a TV show.
#books #shows #tv #siloserries #wool #juliette
March 5, 2023 · 12:23 AM
Curious how CDK fans decide which language to work in. Doesn’t seem to be related to underlying source code, lambdas, etc.. but maybe more about collaborating with others on your team?
#golang #aws #cdk
February 28, 2023 · 4:32 PM
If Slack could make one change I’d want it to be removing threads from DMs.
February 26, 2023 · 6:50 PM
One of my favorite tricks (read guilty secret) is git stash. This command lets you store work in progress so you can work on something else if you aren’t ready to commit. It’s great for little unfinished ideas you want to come back to later.

#golang #git #code #dev
February 25, 2023 · 8:09 PM
At work we communicate primarily with Slack and video conf. But as soon as we travel, everyone switches to SMS and Email like is 2004.
February 23, 2023 · 11:30 PM
I hope someone will build “ChatGTP” which is just like ChatGPT except it only wants to talk about the beloved Pontiac Grand Prix GTP from the late 90’s.
February 23, 2023 · 2:11 PM
Just noticed my wife has been using straight up Apple Notes for work.
February 22, 2023 · 12:07 AM
I always thought it was:
“When I was young I knew everything. Me and Poncharello never took advice.”
February 21, 2023 · 1:04 PM
Would be nice if #mastodon had an “expand this post” option.
#mastodon
February 21, 2023 · 4:00 AM
#github #golang #aws
February 20, 2023 · 10:13 PM
My little imaging library is coming along. It currently has two image generators, and can be used in your #golang projects or as a standalone CLI.
It also can be deployed to #AWS with #Lambda and API Gateway via AWS SAM. Have a look!
#golang #aws #lambda
February 20, 2023 · 1:38 PM
The 4yo is running around singing “little bits, little bits, can’t be wrong” over and over.
February 19, 2023 · 11:34 PM
Oh god.. Facebook Blue
February 18, 2023 · 6:46 PM
Here I am in 1994. #videostill #genx #grunge

#videostill #genx #grunge
February 17, 2023 · 1:58 PM
I wrote some pretty ugly code to get this thing working last night. Anyone want to help me make it better? #golang
https://github.com/go-micah/imaging/blob/main/imaging.go#L10-L94
#golang
February 17, 2023 · 2:57 AM

#golang #lambda #sam
February 17, 2023 · 12:15 AM
Cool job alert 🚨 - We are looking for someone to head up engineering for AWS Clean Rooms.
Connect with me if you’re interested.
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2317067/senior-manager-engineering-aws-clean-rooms
#aws #jobs #amazon #engineeringmanager
February 16, 2023 · 2:06 AM
Some initial thoughts and notes on running #golang programs on AWS App Runner
#aws #cloud #containers #docker
https://www.micahwalter.com/running-go-programs-on-aws-app-runner/
#golang #aws #cloud #containers #docker
February 15, 2023 · 11:53 PM
#python #boto3 #aws
February 14, 2023 · 11:40 PM
It’s incredibly easy to launch a #golang project on AWS App Runner. I didn’t even need a Dockerfile or a config file. So good!
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apprunner/latest/dg/service-source-code-go1.html
#golang #aws
February 14, 2023 · 6:34 PM
There are so many ways to run #containers on #AWS !!!
#containers #aws
February 13, 2023 · 3:54 PM
New post: Go Packages, Go Docs, and the Distance Image.
#golang #til #programming #imaging
https://www.micahwalter.com/go-packages-go-docs-and-the-distance-image/
#golang #til #programming #imaging
February 13, 2023 · 2:42 PM
Job Alert 🚨 The Met Museum is hiring a Sr. Project Manager for their digital team (sorry.. I meant to say “Emerging Technology Team”)
$140-$155 K per year plus benefits.
#jobs #musetech #emergingtech #glam #museums
February 11, 2023 · 2:55 PM
I’ve been a @1password user since it launched. But I’m curious how the security of Apple’s built in password tools compare. Thoughts? #infosec
#infosec
February 9, 2023 · 9:25 PM
Around this time last year my wife decided to fill a bin with rice and toys. It was pretty fun for a few hours, but I'm still finding rice hidden in weird places around the house.

#photography #lightroom #adobe
February 9, 2023 · 5:52 PM
I learned today that I can share my step by step editing process directly from within Adobe Lightroom, which is kinda neat!
#photography #lightroom #adobe #photojournalism
https://lightroom.adobe.com/learn/discover/34b6130b-4619-4f33-a00e-c4c91332cb36

#photography #lightroom #adobe #photojournalism
February 9, 2023 · 1:15 PM
I’ve been reading all about pointers in #golang and I understand how they work and the syntax but I haven’t figured out why you’d want to use them. Is it just a memory management thing?
#golang
February 8, 2023 · 4:10 PM
Here I am again, importing thousands of photos into Adobe Lightroom. I will never learn.
#photography #lightroom #adobe
February 8, 2023 · 3:01 AM
The bad news is, I’m back on the Adobe Lightroom train. The good news is, I found this lovely photo of our community garden. Looking forward to spring!

#photography #lightroom #gardens
February 7, 2023 · 11:12 PM
It’s been about ten years since I’ve played this rig. Still works! (needs new strings).

February 7, 2023 · 12:21 PM
I’m reading this book on #golang - mixing online tutorials, making my own projects, reading documentation and books like this seems like a good method for learning so far.
Go Programming Language, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) https://a.co/d/hu7t3xI
#golang
February 7, 2023 · 3:34 AM
I really like the “_” in #golang. It even looks a little like the 🕳️ emoji .. where memory goes to die.
#golang
February 4, 2023 · 6:36 PM
I thought Everything Everywhere All at Once was going to be a docu drama about Dropbox but it wound up being an odd examination of the IRS.
February 3, 2023 · 1:55 AM
More image processing in #golang - This is supposed to be a "sine pattern" but I'm still working on it, obviously.
(I had an internship at this place in college - https://www.appliedimage.com/product-category/sine-sinusoidal-targets-arrays/ )

#golang
February 2, 2023 · 10:47 PM
The Birds. #photography

#photography
February 2, 2023 · 2:28 PM
Ten years ago I got interested in APIs and wrote some bots for Tumblr and Twitter. They got some attention and motivated me to keep learning. It’s a sad day for anyone learning to make stuff on the web.
#twitter
February 2, 2023 · 1:04 PM
This morning the 4yo said “Why is it called re-cycling? It’s just cycling?” ♻️
February 1, 2023 · 12:54 PM
Yesterday I came up with a “Snow, Snow, Let it Snow” chant, which the little guy danced, stomped feet and sang for about an hour.
At night we had a family talk about science and belief systems.
This morning …

February 1, 2023 · 12:35 AM
I’m super excited to share a TON of new content centered around helping customers get started with AWS Clean Rooms. This includes AWS Solutions, Partner Solutions, Guidances, sample code, reference architectures, and implementation guides.
There’s so much to examine here and it was a thrill to contribute to this effort. 🚀
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/advertising-marketing/data-clean-rooms/
#aws #cloud #cleanrooms
January 31, 2023 · 9:02 PM
Really interesting talk around #golang #cdk and #k8s from last year’s #aws #reinvent2022 (so many hashtags!)
#golang #cdk #k8s #aws #reinvent2022
January 31, 2023 · 5:25 PM
I just discovered the #golang page on our website! It pulls together a bunch of useful resources for developing with Go on AWS.
#golang #go #aws #lambda #serverless
January 31, 2023 · 3:57 AM
My "distance image" function is working now. The function uses the image package from #golang standard library to produce an image where each pixel's luminance is based on its distance from the center.
Here's the codes far - https://github.com/go-micah/imaging/blob/main/imaging.go#L11

#golang
January 30, 2023 · 11:46 PM
What is the appropriate reaction when your 4yo purposefully whips you in the face with a rubber centipede? I really want to know.
January 29, 2023 · 3:37 AM
I've been exploring the standard library in #golang and was able to create this "distance image" where each pixel's value is based on its distance from the center. It's not exactly correct, but I think its kinda beautiful!

#golang
January 28, 2023 · 2:51 PM
Last night a friend was giving me a tour of her recently gut renovated home. I asked her who the architect was and she said “me, I thought myself Sketchup and did the whole thing myself.”
January 27, 2023 · 8:14 PM
I managed to get three whole blog posts published this month! Yay me!
Getting going with Go - https://www.micahwalter.com/getting-going-with-go/
#golang #go #aws #lambda #serverless #sam
January 27, 2023 · 6:56 PM
Instagram has really devolved into a way for my wife and I to send stupid videos to each other throughout the day.
January 27, 2023 · 2:49 PM
This is a really nice explanation of how packages work in #golang .. I think I 80% understand it now.
#golang
January 27, 2023 · 1:22 AM
#go #golang
January 26, 2023 · 1:47 PM
I keep hearing this on the radio. Runner by Alex G. Please have a listen and let me know what song from the 90’s it reminds you of.
January 24, 2023 · 10:01 PM
Different time, same sounds.

January 24, 2023 · 1:50 PM
I had no idea Teenage Fanclub were still performing and have had 11 studio albums. I just found this tape in my archives. Easily one of the most underrated masterpieces from the early 90’s.

January 22, 2023 · 11:27 PM
Did the #mastodon devs pick PostgreSQL because 🐘?
#mastodon
January 22, 2023 · 10:25 PM
Ok I’m kinda new to the suburbs. If I buy a new recycle bin, how do I get rid of the old recycle bin? Can I uh .. recycle it? ♻️
January 22, 2023 · 1:36 AM
Above photo is of my son (on the left) at 3 and his friend who is the same age. A nice recreation of this photo from when I was three (on the left) with my pal in 1979.

January 22, 2023 · 1:23 AM
BFFs

January 20, 2023 · 2:08 AM
This was a good lunch! Better than “Top Ramen” 🍜

January 20, 2023 · 1:50 AM
#golang #programming
January 19, 2023 · 12:37 AM
Should I learn #golang ?
#golang
January 18, 2023 · 2:12 PM
… plot twist! …
“Due to a significant increase in application volume, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is extending the grace period from 6 months to 1 year for any Trusted Traveler member who has a valid membership and who has submitted a renewal application. This means you will continue to receive full benefits for 1 year while U.S. Customs and Border Protection is finalizing your renewal application.”
January 18, 2023 · 2:10 PM
… and the big reveal …
“You will need to provide your PASSID the first time you setup your profile. Your PASSID, or membership number, can be located on the back of your TTP card or on previous notification letters. This will allow the TTP System to retrieve your information to facilitate the renewal process.”
January 18, 2023 · 2:10 PM
… it continues ..
“The TTP System website uses Login.gov for authentication. When you first use the new TTP System website you will need to create a Login.gov account if you do not already have one. For more information on Login.gov, visit https://login.gov/. Please be advised that you will no longer be able to use your GOES user ID/password to login to the TTP System.”
January 18, 2023 · 2:09 PM
Inspired to write the next great dystopian sci-fi story centered around this email.
“Your Trusted Traveler membership will be expiring soon. If you wish to renew your membership, you will need to log onto the Trusted Traveler Programs (TTP) System website at https://ttp.dhs.gov/ to submit your renewal application. The TTP system has replaced the Global Online Enrollment System (GOES).”
January 18, 2023 · 1:56 AM
This seems like a good use of Tinysheet (and TinyURL).
January 16, 2023 · 10:56 PM
Unpopular opinion: Jack Ryan is a much more interesting character than James Bond. Fight me.
January 16, 2023 · 3:21 PM
Turns out the actual name is “Aubrey” … but she is now and forever, “All Green” to me.
January 16, 2023 · 2:48 PM
Afterward I told him we could make something similar with the leaf blower.

January 16, 2023 · 2:47 PM
Our kid has a friend at school named (according to him) “All Green.”
January 15, 2023 · 7:31 PM
One of my best creations.

January 15, 2023 · 12:59 AM
Somehow we are down to a single laptop charging wire in the entire house.
January 14, 2023 · 7:16 PM
I'm trying out @elk - It's quite nice!
January 13, 2023 · 8:59 PM
AWS Clean Rooms is now available in public preview. #aws #cloud #bigdata
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/01/aws-clean-rooms-now-available-preview/
#aws #cloud #bigdata
January 13, 2023 · 7:54 PM
We really need an IdentityPub, whatever that is.
DirectoryPub, ActivityHub .. Active Directory Pub.
Microsoft Managed Activity & Identity Directory Pub.
January 11, 2023 · 3:20 AM
I wrote up some notes on backing up my #mastodon database to #aws #s3. It's easy!
https://www.micahwalter.com/notes-on-backing-up-my-mastodon-server-to-s3/
#mastodon #aws #s3 #mastoadmin
January 10, 2023 · 1:56 AM
Did you ever notice how whenever someone on TV discovers cassette tapes in the old file box there’s a tape player in there as well, with fresh batteries ready to play them?
January 9, 2023 · 10:37 PM
I’m simply honored to have been mentioned in @Quinnypig ’s newsletter! #aws #cloud #mastoadmin 👋
#aws #cloud #mastoadmin
January 9, 2023 · 10:33 PM
Escape from New York. October, 2020.

#photography #travel #nyc #covid19
January 8, 2023 · 11:35 PM
My 30th high school reunion is coming up and some jerk created what looks like the pilot for “Saved By The Bell, 1994 Edition.”
January 8, 2023 · 6:16 PM
A Dawn Redwood at Baily Arboretum in Long Island, NY #photography #nature #trees

#photography #nature #trees
January 6, 2023 · 2:20 AM
Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default - this is a big deal!
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-encrypts-new-objects-by-default/
#aws #cloud
January 6, 2023 · 1:20 AM
Two lesser known databases I find fascinating:
Aerospike - super fast NoSQL DB for low latency workloads. https://aerospike.com/
SingleStore - next gen relational database, also super fast. https://www.singlestore.com/
What are some others?
January 4, 2023 · 2:25 PM
Today is my two year anniversary at #aws . Very excited for many more to come. 🙏
Here I am at the NYC Summit last summer, where I did my best to answer questions at the “Ask an Expert” booth!

#aws
January 3, 2023 · 2:24 PM
I’m very appreciative of my colleges who resisted the temptation to send me (or cc me on) emails while I was away.
🙏
January 3, 2023 · 1:18 AM
One more from this morning. This time, a still. #photography #portwashington

#photography #portwashington
January 2, 2023 · 6:55 PM
Another 4K 24fps video file from our morning walk, gently uploaded to my little #mastodon server. The last one worked just fine, and got compressed down to 2.8MB from about 1.4GB. This one is a little smaller since I didn’t use ProRes.
Video#mastodon #mastodmin #nature #video #photography
January 2, 2023 · 5:26 PM
Testing uploading this 11s ProRes 4K video to my little #mastodon server. See ya on the other side!
Video#mastodon
January 2, 2023 · 1:56 PM
Ah this is a big loss. #ModestMouse
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/arts/music/jeremiah-green-dead.html
#modestmouse
January 1, 2023 · 7:35 PM
Happy New Year! 🎈
I did two things to my single-user #mastodon server a few days ago.
1. I disabled the Relay I had set up
2. I enabled cache cleanup after 7 daysThe resulted in:
- My 300GB of storage has shrunk to about 75GB
- My PUT requests have decreased from 40K to 2K per day#mastodon #mastoadmin #aws
December 31, 2022 · 6:28 PM
One of my highlights of 2022 was building this little patch of vegetables at our neighborhood community garden. It didn’t produce as much food as I had planned, but it was really fun.
#gardens #communitygarden #2022

#gardens #communitygarden
December 31, 2022 · 6:15 PM
I just went to a “Noon Years Eve” which is something you don’t know exists until you have kids.
December 30, 2022 · 7:16 PM
A nice day around town. #photography #portwashington

#photography #portwashington
December 30, 2022 · 2:26 PM
I’ve decided. 2023 is the year I finally cancel my Adobe subscription. Give me strength. 💪
#photography
December 30, 2022 · 4:06 AM
Two programs I use a ton are #vscode and #obsidian and I’m now realizing they are both text editors.
#vscode #obsidian
December 29, 2022 · 11:52 PM
Is there reason to join more than one #mastodon server? Is this something people do?
#mastodon
December 29, 2022 · 2:29 AM
So the post I wrote last week on the cost of running my own #mastodon server has been viewed over 30,000 times!
I’ve also now got over 300 followers on here.
And I’m up to 30 whole newsletter members.
And 3 days left of vacation…
https://www.micahwalter.com/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws/
#mastodon #stats #analytics #mastoadmin
December 28, 2022 · 10:20 PM
Grand Teton National Park. From our 2014 road trip. #photography #travel #nationalparks

#photography #travel #nationalparks
December 28, 2022 · 7:26 PM
Is there a good write up / long read on how #mastodon federation actually works? I’ve found little hints here and there like “servers it knows about” but nothing concrete. How does a relay work? How does my server aggregate hashtags from other servers? What about trends?
#mastodon #mastoadmin #fedi #fediverse
December 28, 2022 · 3:01 AM
300 followers on here. Oh crap.
🙏
December 27, 2022 · 8:26 PM
I’m working on some more #mastoadmin related posts and notes. Let me know what you’re most interested in reading about first:
#mastoadmin #mastodon #aws #mastodonadmin
December 27, 2022 · 2:44 PM
Another view of Athens from our 2017 trip. #photography #travel #blackandwhite

#photography #travel #blackandwhite
December 27, 2022 · 1:41 PM
From that time we went to Greece on our honeymoon. #photography #travel

#photography #travel
December 26, 2022 · 10:58 PM
Does it make any sense to use a Relay on a single-user #mastodon server?
#mastodon
December 26, 2022 · 4:21 PM
Going old school this Boxing Day. #nostalgia

#nostalgia
December 25, 2022 · 6:11 PM
I’m aware my post on running Mastodon on AWS is getting some attention this holiday season. 🎄 I’ll do my best to engage in this discussion, but right now I’m a little busy with family stuff. 🙏
#mastodonadmin #mastoadmin #aws
December 25, 2022 · 4:41 PM
Happy Holidays, everyone! 🎄 🕎

December 25, 2022 · 3:44 AM
One thing I’ve always wondered about Christmas Vacation - when Clark is stuck in the attic and he falls through the ceiling into the bunk bed below, why doesn’t he just climb down through the hole he’s just made?
December 25, 2022 · 3:28 AM
…and to all a good night… 🎄

#christmas
December 24, 2022 · 6:42 PM
I visited this beach in Montauk, NY in the spring of 2013. It was pretty cold out, but still a nice walk in the sun on a beach in April.

#photography #travel #beaches #longisland
December 24, 2022 · 2:18 PM
It’s Christmas Eve 🎄 It’s 8 degrees, and I’m going to the store for… a salad tray?
December 23, 2022 · 10:27 PM
Type 55 Polaroid 4x5. Taken somewhere along a highway in New Mexico in 1999.
I’m gonna need a much better way to digitize all of this. #photography #travel #archives
#photography #travel #archives
December 23, 2022 · 5:39 PM
Here’s an awesome photo of myself, camping in Mesa Verde National Park in 1999. #photography #travel #camping #polaroid

#photography #travel #camping #polaroid
December 23, 2022 · 5:33 PM
Whenever my parents come to visit, they bring random boxes of stuff I’ve left in their basement over the years. This time was mostly books, but one box included all this cool #photography related stuff. An old camera and lens, a bag of undeveloped film, tons of negatives and a journal I kept on a trip to the Southwest US from 1999. #travel #archives




#photography #travel #archives
December 23, 2022 · 2:27 PM

#holidays #family
December 23, 2022 · 1:02 PM
So my post on the cost of running a single-user #mastodon server has been getting lots of views. Over 1400 visitors since I posted it (that’s a ton for my site). Not really sure why, but maybe it’s “The Mastodon Effect” ?
https://micah.social/@micah/109552604543343144#mastodon
December 22, 2022 · 8:16 PM
A nice feature on Effie Kapsalis 🙏
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/wonderful-women-wednesday-effie-kapsalis
#openaccess #smithsonian #wikipedia#openaccess #smithsonian #wikipedia
December 22, 2022 · 7:45 PM
Weird thing I came across on Long Island last night. #unicorn #holidays #christmas #lights #photography

#unicorn #holidays #christmas #lights #photography
December 22, 2022 · 4:15 PM
I have to say - #obsidian is getting better every day. I've been a fan and a user for years.
The new Canvas feature is wild.
#obsidian
December 21, 2022 · 7:37 PM
Sai Wan, Hong Kong in 2018. #photography #travel #hongkong

#photography #travel #hongkong
December 21, 2022 · 4:39 PM
The votes are in, so I wrote up a post on how much it all costs so far. Enjoy!
https://www.micahwalter.com/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws/
December 21, 2022 · 4:28 PM
How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
https://www.micahwalter.com/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws/
#mastoadmin #aws
December 21, 2022 · 2:50 PM
I just realized the t4g.small instance Free Trial ends Dec 31st 2023. All this time I thought it was ending Dec 31st 2022!
#aws #mastoadmin
December 20, 2022 · 11:07 PM
Another view from a 2019 visit to Dia:Beacon in New York. #art #photography

#art #photography
December 20, 2022 · 7:29 PM
I currently have about 10x the number of followers on the other place vs. on here.
But on here, I get about 10x the engagement.
#10x
December 20, 2022 · 4:12 PM
It's been about a month since I launched my own single-user #mastodon server on AWS.
What would you like to know about?
#mastodon #mastoadmin #aws
December 20, 2022 · 2:20 PM
This line of light beneath a giant wall of metal. Torqued Ellipses by Richard Serra at Dia:Beacon #art #photography
https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/richard-serra-exhibition

#art #photography
December 19, 2022 · 9:55 PM
Finally got to try the newish Raman place. #food #raman #longisland

#food #raman #longisland
December 18, 2022 · 6:31 PM
Can we all go back to not caring about soccer now?
December 17, 2022 · 12:59 AM
From a 2017 trip to Amsterdam. #photography #travel

#photography #travel
December 16, 2022 · 9:28 PM
“Presentation - Final - Final.ppt” went well. Last meeting of 2022 on the books. Now I can relax!! 🍾
December 16, 2022 · 2:17 PM
It’s nearly 2023 and someone sent me a file called “Presentation - Final” and then sent me an updated version a few hours later called “Presentation - Final.”
December 16, 2022 · 12:29 AM
Food prep in Southwest Harbor, Maine 2019. #photography #travel #vacations

#photography #travel #vacations
December 15, 2022 · 9:51 PM
This is what I built a while back. I'd like to improve it and make it more consistent with a REST API and offline task. - https://www.micahwalter.com/the-super-simple-serverless-image-processor-and-website/
December 15, 2022 · 9:49 PM
I’m looking for good patterns for building serverless image upload and processing APIs on #aws. Something that explains best practices for the upload API bit as well as the long running, offline data processing flow bit. I’d like to use API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB for the most part.
#aws
December 15, 2022 · 7:43 PM
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA 2014. #photography #travel #museums

#photography #travel #museums
December 15, 2022 · 2:07 PM
From our 2014 road trip. Old Faithful. #photography #travel #nationalparks

#photography #travel #nationalparks
December 14, 2022 · 6:52 PM
San Juan, 2013

#photography #sanjuan #travel
December 14, 2022 · 4:39 PM
Auto-Incrementing DynamoDB with Lambda and a Function URL
https://www.micahwalter.com/auto-incrementing-dynamodb-with-lambda-and-a-function-url/
#aws #lambda #dynamodb
December 14, 2022 · 1:17 AM
I just started reading about the Mastodon API. This is pretty interesting stuff! #mastodonadmin
#mastodonadmin
December 13, 2022 · 9:54 PM
The “Town Tree” lit up last year in Port Washington, NY #photography #christmas #holidays

#photography #holidays #christmas
December 13, 2022 · 4:59 PM
My super smart teammate, Girish Keshav just posted a tech talk on “Automatic application layer DDoS mitigation with AWS Shield Advanced.”
#aws #ddos #security
December 13, 2022 · 12:50 PM
From a recent trip to Westhampton, NY. #photography #beaches #landscapes #hamptons

#photography #beaches #landscapes #hamptons
December 12, 2022 · 5:41 PM
Sometimes I miss the days of integrating my Flickr photos with my Wordpress site using something called TanTan Noodles.
December 12, 2022 · 1:47 AM
December 12, 2022 · 1:37 AM
Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" on the shore of the Great Salt Lake, outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2014.

#photography #art #utah #travel #panoramic
December 10, 2022 · 1:45 PM
Do people who build #microservices keep each service in a separate repo? Curious if there are best practices on this? #devops #api
#microservices #devops #api
December 9, 2022 · 1:24 AM
This is the Dawn Redwood at the Baily Arboretum on Long Island. #nature #trees #photography

#nature #trees #photography
December 8, 2022 · 1:49 PM
I was listening to Sirius XMU in the car this morning, where they mostly play new music that all sounds like Sonic Youth mixed with The Pixies, when a song that actually was Sonic Youth came on, and for a moment I thought… this is just too much.
December 7, 2022 · 12:29 AM
3yo pointing at melon: this is a melon
3yo pointing at cereal: this is not melon
Me: he’s a scientist!December 6, 2022 · 11:04 PM
Me: do you know any Christmas songs?
3yo: 🎵 Rumor has it 🎵
December 6, 2022 · 8:08 PM
3yo: The blowups never sleep.
⛄️ 🦌December 6, 2022 · 2:40 PM
Last night my team and I volunteered a little bit of our time and served dinner at The Bowery Mission. We served 150 individuals, and made a small donation.
The Bowery Mission is a special place that has been helping homeless and hungry New Yorkers since the 1870s.
(Photo by Ravi)

December 5, 2022 · 3:11 AM
Just a couple months ago, we were sitting in the window light. #photography #kids

#photography #kids
December 4, 2022 · 8:17 PM
A year ago, on the basketball court in Port Washington, NY. #photography

#photography
December 4, 2022 · 6:30 PM
I somehow managed to knock over one of those giant KitchenAid mixers that looks like the Alien from Alien, and now my floor is covered in what appears to be motor oil.
December 4, 2022 · 1:25 AM
A year ago, on the bus in Port Washington, NY. #photography

#photography
December 3, 2022 · 11:31 PM
How come nobody ever goes as Santa for Halloween?
December 3, 2022 · 8:01 PM
June 2017, Sai Wan, Hong Kong

#photography #travel
December 3, 2022 · 2:38 PM
For my #mastodon server, I’m hosting all my images and static content on #aws #s3. It’s working great but growing in size pretty quickly. I know there are tools to prune stale content, but I’ve also added a S3 Lifecycle Policy to transition everything to Intelligent Tiering.
#mastodon #aws #s3
December 2, 2022 · 9:16 PM
Thinking of the time we stayed in this little cabin in the middle of a ranch in the middle nowhere Wyoming in 2014. #travel #photograhy

#travel #photograhy
December 2, 2022 · 8:15 PM
This was a great session! Very excited to see Anna Nicanorova talk about OMNI and AWS Clean Rooms! #adtech #aws #reinvent
#adtech #aws #reinvent
December 2, 2022 · 4:48 PM
I’m starting to see lots of news articles covering #AWS Clean Rooms referencing customers I work with. Super exciting space and I am sure it will consume many conversations coming up in 2023.
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-aws-data-clean-rooms-cookies/637839/
#aws
December 2, 2022 · 4:04 PM
That time we traveled through Victor, Idaho in 2014. #photography #travel

#photography #travel
December 1, 2022 · 10:11 PM
There are many odd buildings in NYC. Terrace on the Park is just one of them.
#architecture #buildings #nyc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_on_the_Park
#architecture #buildings #nyc
December 1, 2022 · 2:09 PM
Tech Crunch covering AWS Clean Rooms.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/aws-gets-data-clean-rooms-for-analytics-data/
#aws #reinvent
December 1, 2022 · 2:01 PM
Hanging out in a bar in Long Island, 2014. #photography

#photography
November 30, 2022 · 8:27 PM
Little concert in our town last year.

November 30, 2022 · 4:50 PM
I’m not at #aws #reinvent this year, but here I am back in July at the NYC AWS Summit where I worked the “Ask The Experts” booth. What a fun day!

#aws #reinvent
November 30, 2022 · 1:13 AM
Mom and son playing with a sensory bin, February 2022. #photography #family

#family #photography
November 29, 2022 · 8:45 PM
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 2017 #photography

#photography
November 29, 2022 · 6:36 PM
I'm very excited to be able to finally share something I've been involved in for the past year.
AWS Clean Rooms will provide a secure and easy way for multiple companies to join their data together without compromising their customer's privacy.
#aws #data #adtech #cleanrooms #reinvent
November 29, 2022 · 2:53 PM
If you are into #formula1 be sure to check out this part of Peter DeSantis' keynote at #aws #reinvent where #Ferrari Driver Coach, Jock Clear walks us through how an #f1 team wins races with data.
#formula1 #aws #reinvent #ferrari #f1
November 29, 2022 · 12:46 AM
Bretlan in Brooklyn, NY 2017 #photography

#photography
November 28, 2022 · 10:49 PM
Two years ago I interviewed for my job at #aws just a few days after #reinvent
This wound up being immensely helpful since I had just watched our then CEO, Andy Jassy deliver his keynote as well as CTO Werner Vogels.
It helped me in two ways:
1. The keynotes got me mentally psyched for my interview, and tuned me into Amazon's Leadership Principles and culture.
2. I wound up with a ton of anecdotes and quotes for questions like "Why Amazon? Why AWS? Why Solutions Architecture?"#aws #reinvent
November 28, 2022 · 5:25 PM
Lots of launches and updates coming from #aws this week at #reinvent. I'm personally very excited about this one, and about to go set it up for my #mastodon server right now!
#aws #reinvent #mastodon
November 28, 2022 · 4:58 PM
Accidentally said “Enjoy the rest of your days” at the end of my team call this morning.
November 28, 2022 · 2:16 PM
After about two years, I’m excited to announce, I’ve switched back to using a Chemex.
Also wondering if anyone has any advice for keeping one warm.
November 28, 2022 · 1:19 AM
I've been keeping a log of notes on running my own #mastodon server on #aws
You can follow along right here 👇
#mastodon #aws
November 27, 2022 · 10:48 PM
The little marina by our house. #photography

#photography
November 27, 2022 · 8:30 PM
I wrote up more notes on running a single user Mastodon server. This time it's all about serving images and a brief server outage I experienced on Thanksgiving Day that I am sure nobody even noticed.
https://www.micahwalter.com/notes-on-serving-images-and-a-brief-mastodon-server-outage/
#mastodon #aws #devops
November 27, 2022 · 4:57 PM
So far the instance I am using for this #mastodon server is costing me nothing. #aws has a free trial period for the Graviton2 powered t4g.small until the end of the year.
#mastodon #aws
November 27, 2022 · 3:01 PM
Mastodon experts - I have a couple questions.
1. How do hashtags work? I mean, do they span the entire Fediverse somehow? 🤷♂️
2. What is a Relay? Do I need one?November 27, 2022 · 3:21 AM
“Instagram Pier” Hong Kong

November 27, 2022 · 1:13 AM
Ever since I've been running my own Mastodon server I've been thinking a lot about availability. It's nice that my server is just for me. If it goes offline, nobody will really even notice. I'll just be "offline" for a bit.
My gut tells me to build for resilience at every turn, but there's something comforting about the ease of going dark whenever I want.
November 26, 2022 · 11:33 PM
Sai Wan, Hong Kong 2017

November 26, 2022 · 10:09 PM
October 30, 2022 🍂

November 26, 2022 · 8:40 PM
Lots of people in my various feeds (including on here) heading to or arriving in Las Vegas this weekend ahead of #AWS #reinvent .
I’m having serious FOMO.
Are you attending this year?
#aws #reinvent
November 26, 2022 · 5:51 PM
My #wfh setup.

#wfh
November 26, 2022 · 12:20 PM
Good morning, 100 followers! 🙏
November 26, 2022 · 5:20 AM
Classic. Brooklyn, 2016

November 26, 2022 · 5:13 AM
Got my little Mastodon server working with S3 and CloudFront. And now I know all about something called kt-paperclip.
November 26, 2022 · 1:23 AM
My little Mastodon server had its first office outage today. All the sudden I was t able to load new posts. I took a look at the dashboard I created in the AWS console and immediately noticed that CPU and Memory was pegged.
Of course, it was pegged just a little lower than where my alert threshold was set so I never got any alerts.
No idea what caused it to run out of resources yet.
Lessons learned: start with a lower alerting threshold, and set up a better health check.
November 25, 2022 · 10:51 PM
More bar people from 2016.

November 25, 2022 · 9:01 PM
Spent all of nap time trying to figure out the correct Mastodon S3 config settings.
November 25, 2022 · 5:14 PM
In case you’re wondering what to get me for Xmas 🎄

November 25, 2022 · 12:21 PM
Holiday catch up. 🎃

November 25, 2022 · 2:12 AM
🙏 🦃

November 24, 2022 · 4:48 PM
From the Women’s March 2017, New York City.

November 24, 2022 · 4:28 AM
Big mess we’re handing off

November 24, 2022 · 3:41 AM
The process for setting up a new iPhone and transferring from your old iPhone has gotten so insanely seamless and perfect that I wind up with a new iPhone that doesn’t feel new at all.
November 24, 2022 · 1:16 AM
3yo: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune.
Gen-X Dad: and Pluto.November 23, 2022 · 6:52 PM
I'm looking for ideas for this year's "Signature Drink."
Each December, I get the supplies I need to craft a special drink. Then, I make the drink numerous times throughout the winter, mostly for myself or anyone who pays me a visit.
Last year it was a classic Old Fashioned. Last year was the first year doing this.
Ideas?! 🍹🍸🍷🍾🥃
November 23, 2022 · 5:17 PM
Here are my notes on setting up monitoring and alerting for my little Mastodon server on AWS.
https://www.micahwalter.com/notes-on-configuring-amazon-cloudwatch-to-monitor-my-mastodon-server/
#mastodon #aws
November 23, 2022 · 3:34 PM
Day 2 running my own Mastodon server and things are starting to come alive. I’ve got trending hashtags, and finally some content in the federated feed. I also got an email this morning from myself asking if I wanted to approve some news links, so that’s very nice!
November 23, 2022 · 3:48 AM
In the past two months we've opened FOUR new Regions at AWS! The scale of this is just incredible.
1. UAE - me-central-1 Opened Aug 29th
2. Switzerland - eu-central-2 Opened Nov 8th
3. Spain - eu-south-2 Opened Nov 15th
4. Hyderabad - ap-south-2 Opened Nov 21st#aws
November 23, 2022 · 2:52 AM
Back in 2016, when we used to hang out in bars.

November 23, 2022 · 1:40 AM
I recently found this nice little farm store about twenty minutes from where I live. I will pay big money for good pie.

November 22, 2022 · 11:50 PM
Here I am, inside a white board.

November 22, 2022 · 8:18 PM
I’ve been pretty Mastodon-curious for a couple weeks now, and after spending some time tinkering with an account I set up back in 2018 on mastodon.social, I decided to explore setting up my own instance on AWS.
These are my notes.
https://www.micahwalter.com/notes-on-running-a-mastodon-server-on-aws/
November 22, 2022 · 5:40 PM
Moving things over from mastodon.social was really easy. I’m noticing on here I can’t see posts when I go to someone’s profile just yet. Hmmm 🤔
November 22, 2022 · 4:22 PM
Hello! I finally figured out how to spin up my own Mastodon server (notes coming soon). So, I'm here now on micah.social.
If you don't know me, I'm a guy who lives in New York and who works at Amazon Web Services as a Solutions Architect. I enjoy taking pictures, hanging out with my silly family, and making things on the World Wide Web.
Happy to be here.

#introduction
November 22, 2022 · 3:10 PM
I tooted!