More importantly, I definitely didn’t want it on without any indication. — I prefer Windows machines to Macbooks. Windows fails often and in many respects, but you expect it to and it’s fine. Apple products, on the other hand, fail rarely but spectacularly and it’s always surprising and disappointing when they do. Not receiving Slack (and other communication app) notifications regardless of…

Have I missed any keywords? I hope I haven’t missed any keywords. — I just lost a good chunk of my day poring through documentation and tutorials and trying to understand why a Lambda function I created was not being invoked by the SNS function it was successfully subscribed to. Finally, I came across this StackOverflow answer and I thought I’d publish this…

A new and exciting complement to Stable Diffusion has arrived! — We’ve only had public access to stable diffusion AI image generation for a few months now, and if you look through my last few posts I’ve been using it primarily to make video poems [here, here, here and here]. As amazing as these new tools have been, due to the…

What it really means to “use {@link Certificate} instead” — I recently learned how to connect a domain to an S3-hosted website with CDK, which enabled me to finally migrate all of my personal websites and projects to serverless! I’m still excited about it. Connecting Your Own Domain To An S3-hosted Website with CDK After much more time figuring this out than I would like to admit, I have finally succeeded in connecting an existing…awstip.com

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/ is an amusing but disturbing read. Sunday’s Hard Fork episode is less amusing. This is what happens when you mix a chat AI with a search engine. My personal experience yesterday, however, is what really makes me afraid of what’s coming next. I’ve been excited about the potential that…

Another Unrecorded Rescue That Has Been Buried In My Brain — Slowly, but surely, I’m managing to put some my words out in a manner that I feel does them some justice. The story of “the slam” is identical to that of “advice” which I published last month, and I’m so excited to have this out in the open because I’ve…

I had an idea for a fun application that needs to calculate the distance “as the crow flies” between two coordinates on a map, so I went looking for a package to take care of that for me. Finding the right package wasn’t as straightforward as I’d expected, so I…

A Simple Script That Checks If The Current… —