Posts

Introducing AI snacks: ways to add AI features in small doses without overwhelming the user with more chatbots.

An introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and how embeddings, chunking, and vector search work together in the context of LLM search.

Let’s learn about code sandboxes, implementation options, and how to build a code sandbox server for use with LLMs and AI agents.

How to use Service Control Policies (SCPs) to add guardrails to limit IAM users and roles in a multi-account AWS Organization.

How to securely manage human users and groups across multiple AWS accounts using IAM Identity Center and Service Control Policies (SCPs).

A walkthrough of how to build a secure AWS environment with proper account segregation, centralized auditing, and more.

A simple example of adding a Go library to a Rust program, and then using the bindgen FFI to call Go functions from Rust.

I discuss the technical architecture of KVdb.io, a recent side project-turned-product and some pitfalls of overengineering early stage products.

CloudPlay: A Music Player for YouTube, etc. Last year, I had an idea that seemed to improve every time I thought about it. What started out as a solution to fix the problem of quickly finding music on YouTube to play in the car, turned into a realization of how everything is shifting to the omniscient and omnipresent “cloud.” It’s become clear in recent years that people want cross-platform access to their music....

Introducing Dialoggs This week my friend Drew Wilson and I launched Dialoggs into private beta. Simply put, Dialoggs is what you get when you combine the social network of Twitter, a few privacy controls from Facebook, and the multimedia features of Tumblr. Just like Twitter, you can follow other users on Dialoggs and they can follow you. You can send a private message to any user who follows you, much like a Twitter DM....