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by smithclay 2y ago
Fun fact: NBC does not broadcast from Sutro tower, but San Bruno… Which means effectively zero over-the-air reception in parts of the Mission. Lesson learned during a Super Bowl party the 2010s.
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Genie: Uber's Gen AI On-Call Copilot(uber.com)
2 points by smithclay 2y ago|0 comments
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Rebooting San Francisco Royalty: Emperor Norton Meets GenAI(medium.com)
1 points by smithclay 2y ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 2y ago
There’s a hack if you work in Developer Relations for a tech company. 1. You write the book as part of your job during the workday. 2. Your company buys the published book to distribute at events and conferences for free. 3. The book seems
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by smithclay 3y ago
I liked using LangChain and their docs this year to learn basic patterns (RAG, summarization, etc) as someone completely new to the LLM space. LangChain gets a lot of pushback in production scenarios, but think going through some of their t
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OTelBin: Web-based tool to facilitate OpenTelemetry collector configuration(otelbin.io)
9 points by smithclay 3y ago|1 comments
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by smithclay 3y ago
If you enjoy Anchor, highly recommend Olfactory in Dogpatch… which is a rare (very new) SF brewery specializing in lagers and pilsners which are excellent.
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Large Language Model Observability(monitoring2.substack.com)
3 points by smithclay 4y ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 4y ago
Congrats on the launch. Like a lot of the people right now, am doing some side project with OpenAI + LangChain and immediately got some value out of this, specifically: * When your chains get long/complex enough in LangChain, it's
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by smithclay 4y ago
When 1984 was written in the 40s the economics of car ownership were very different. Great post on this: “Why Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car” https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/why-agath
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by smithclay 4y ago
(Hypothetical) breaking point: Cost of housing for a family in desirable SF neighborhoods and the SF public school system.
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by smithclay 4y ago
I’m a 30-something transplant that happily decided to stay in San Francisco, but I have a lot of empathy and understanding for those who decided to leave. The thing that had the biggest impact on various quality of life issues (and why I st
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Where are all those monitoring startups now?(monitoring2.substack.com)
2 points by smithclay 5y ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 6y ago
Hacking stuff together using a userspace networking stack is an incredibly fun side project and significantly easier with the gVisor networking libraries written in Go. Last year I implemented TCP/IP over AWS Cloudwatch. Tons of "
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by smithclay 6y ago
Was at an event where someone asked the industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger (a very colorful dresser) about the color of the early Macs: why beige? “Because of dust”
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by smithclay 6y ago
These lava lamps were also a key plot point in an NCIS episode (a popular crime procedural on CBS). [spoiler below] https://twitter.com/ncis_cbs/status/1044751471927947264?lang...
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by smithclay 6y ago
This adds to some interestsing acquisition activity in this area: Splunk, for example, just acquired Flowmill (also focusing on eBPF + observability). https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/24/splunk-acquires-network-
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Service Meshes, Kiali, and Continuous Verification(monitoring2.substack.com)
2 points by smithclay 6y ago|0 comments
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Coding and Tracing Workflow Remix (Feat. Dark)(monitoring2.substack.com)
2 points by smithclay 7y ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 7y ago
Strange thing: I saw the Waymo cars in the press release photo being prepped for the photoshoot on Valencia Street in San Francisco last month. Now the random sighting ("why is that guy polishing a Waymo Jaguar on a Saturday morning in
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Chaos, Complexity, and Microservice Catalogs(monitoring2.substack.com)
1 points by smithclay 7y ago|0 comments
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Observability Pipelines at Kubecon(monitoring2.substack.com)
46 points by smithclay 7y ago|5 comments
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by smithclay 7y ago
Congrats on the launch, Chronosphere is joining a fast-growing club of monitoring (and related) spinoffs from large Bay Area tech companies: Uber -> Chronosphere Google -> Lightstep Facebook -> Honeycomb Twitter -> Buoyant (and
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TCP/IP over Amazon Cloudwatch Logs(medium.com)
8 points by smithclay 7y ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 8y ago
I've recently seen some compelling and simple internal tools that were built on top of Google Sheets in unexpected industries far away from SF. An online spreadsheet + UI + optional external API calls seems perfect for fast development
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by smithclay 9y ago
This reminds me of a favorite twitter bot that adds the same caption to every _New Yorker_ cartoon: https://twitter.com/newuniversalcap
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by smithclay 9y ago
For the small iOS events, think the changing/shrinking conference landscape needs to be considered alongside the changes in the iOS indie dev community the past 2-3 years. Don't think iOS developers are abandoning the platform, bu
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Generating an ICO white paper using RNNs(medium.com)
4 points by smithclay 9y ago|0 comments
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Running Selenium Tests and Headless Chrome on AWS Lambda(medium.com)
2 points by smithclay 9y ago|0 comments
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by smithclay 9y ago
Shameless plug: I've been hacking on headless chrome in AWS Lambda but with selenium webdriver support [1], also using the binaries from the serverless-chrome [2] project. To echo another comment on this thread, headless chrome seems w

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