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    <title>Micah Walter</title>
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      <title><![CDATA[You do not need an audience]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Working in public is usually sold as a growth strategy. For me it is something quieter and more useful: a way to keep ideas moving, keep the builder muscle warm, and leave a trail I can come back to. This site is the experiment.]]></description>
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      <category>github</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Photos without the deploy]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/photos-without-the-deploy</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Uploading a photo from my phone worked, but publishing it still meant a full static rebuild. Moving photo metadata to DynamoDB and serving it from an API turned a four minute wait into a few seconds, and taught me a couple of lessons about EXIF data along the way.]]></description>
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      <category>photography</category>
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      <category>lambda</category>
      <category>aidlc</category>
      <category>bedrock</category>
      <category>aws-location</category>
      <category>eventbridge</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Faster deploys by moving legacy redirects to CloudFront]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/faster-deploys-moving-redirects-to-cloudfront</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/faster-deploys-moving-redirects-to-cloudfront</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[GitHub Actions deploys were taking three to five minutes. The site was pre-rendering more than two thousand static pages, and most of them existed only to redirect. Here is how issue #90 cut the page count in half and got deploys under two minutes.]]></description>
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      <category>github-actions</category>
      <category>cloudfront</category>
      <category>nextjs</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Uploading photos to my blog from my phone]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/uploading-photos-from-my-phone</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I wanted to post a photo without opening my laptop. The fix was a passcode-gated form, three Lambdas, and a pipeline that commits to GitHub and triggers the normal deploy. Here is how issue #71 became /upload.]]></description>
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      <category>photo-upload</category>
      <category>lambda</category>
      <category>s3</category>
      <category>aidlc</category>
      <category>cursor</category>
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      <category>github-actions</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[If you signed up for my newsletter and never got a confirmation email]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/newsletter-confirmation-emails</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/newsletter-confirmation-emails</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Fathom showed plenty of signups but few confirmations. The problem turned out to be a mix of email authentication, misleading analytics, and UX friction. Here is how I diagnosed it and fixed it with Cursor and AI-DLC.]]></description>
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      <category>newsletter</category>
      <category>ses</category>
      <category>aidlc</category>
      <category>cursor</category>
      <category>email</category>
      <category>aws</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Surfaces]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/surfaces</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/surfaces</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Somewhere out of view, something is doing work I used to do myself.]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>agents</category>
      <category>cursor</category>
      <category>vim</category>
      <category>orchestration</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on exploring the AI-Driven Development Life Cycle]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-exploring-ai-dlc</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-exploring-ai-dlc</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been delivering AI-DLC workshops for AWS customers for the past nine months. Here is what I have seen teams learn about building software when agents can plan, code, and operate alongside you.]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>aidlc</category>
      <category>spec-driven-development</category>
      <category>agentic-ai</category>
      <category>software-engineering</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on upgrading my Mastodon server in about an hour with Claude]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-upgrading-my-mastodon-server-in-about-an-hour-with-claude</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-upgrading-my-mastodon-server-in-about-an-hour-with-claude</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[My single-user Mastodon server had drifted three years out of date. I opened Claude Code, pointed it at my AWS account, and asked it to help. Here's what happened.]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>mastodon</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>claude</category>
      <category>ai-agents</category>
      <category>devops</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crushing my code with Crush]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/crushing-my-code-with-crush</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/crushing-my-code-with-crush</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been following the folks at Charm for a while now. If you're not familiar with them, they make some of the most beautiful terminal applications and...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>ai-agents</category>
      <category>terminal</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trying out Claude's Research Mode]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/trying-out-claudes-research-mode</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/trying-out-claudes-research-mode</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've long been a fan of Anthropic's Claude. The models keep getting better, and their claude.ai interface is top notch. I've used it for a wide variety of...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AWS Machine Learning – Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-machine-learning-harness-the-power-of-mcp-servers-with-amazon-bedrock-agents</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-machine-learning-harness-the-power-of-mcp-servers-with-amazon-bedrock-agents</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’ve been digging into this new AWS blog post about Model Context Protocol MCP servers and their integration with Amazon Bedrock Agents, and I have to say, I’m...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>agents</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>mcp</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Amazon AGI – Introducing Nova Act]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-agi-introducing-nova-act</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-agi-introducing-nova-act</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been keeping a close eye on the evolution of AI agents lately, and this week's announcement from Amazon AGI Labs caught my attention. They've introduced...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hosting my books on AWS with Writebook]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/hosting-writebook-on-aws</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/hosting-writebook-on-aws</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There are now several ways to read the short story I wrote earlier this year. You can of course always re-read the serialized "blog style" story on Substack....]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>ec2</category>
      <category>fiction</category>
      <category>writing</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hugh Howey & DeepSeek R1: The Algorithm that Learned to Listen]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/hugh-howey-deepseek-r1-the-algorithm-that-learned-to-listen</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/hugh-howey-deepseek-r1-the-algorithm-that-learned-to-listen</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One of my favorite science fiction authors, Hugh Howey, has published a book of discussions with DeepSeek R1. When DeepSeek was released to the public, I gave...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>fiction</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>sci-fi</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Extended Thinking with Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock is Wow!]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/extended-thinking-with-anthropics-claude-3-7-sonnet-on-amazon-bedrock-is-wow</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/extended-thinking-with-anthropics-claude-3-7-sonnet-on-amazon-bedrock-is-wow</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I think the title of this blog post kinda sums it up. I've been testing out the new Extended Thinking capability with Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chat-CLI and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/chat-cli-and-anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/chat-cli-and-anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Anthropic released a major upgrade to their Claude Sonnet LLM today with version 3.7. Shortly after it was announced, Amazon announced availability via Amazon...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anatomy of a AWS Lambda function in Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/anatomy-of-a-aws-lambda-function-in-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/anatomy-of-a-aws-lambda-function-in-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Go or Golang is a great choice for building backends, APIs and all sorts of data processing programs for the cloud. Go is easy to learn, straightforward, and...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aaron Straup Cope | Keynote Speech FACT Symposium]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aaron-straup-cope-keynote-speech-fact-symposium</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aaron-straup-cope-keynote-speech-fact-symposium</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I was delighted to watch this Keynote address from my former colleague and long time pal, Aaron Straup Cope. In it he makes a number of nice references to the...]]></description>
      <category>Conferences</category>
      <category>interwebs</category>
      <category>Museums</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Implementing least privilege access for Amazon Bedrock]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/implementing-least-privilege-access-for-amazon-bedrock</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/implementing-least-privilege-access-for-amazon-bedrock</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a really useful and well explained blog post on how to apply the Principal of Least Privilege with Amazon Bedrock. This is a topic I get asked about on...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Meta SAM 2.1 is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/meta-sam-2-1-is-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/meta-sam-2-1-is-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Meta SAM 2.1 is a state-of-the-art vision segmentation model designed for high-performance computer vision tasks, enabling advanced object detection and...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mike's Place – The photos]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/mikes-place-the-photos</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/mikes-place-the-photos</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If you have been following, I previously wrote about a writing project I did at the start of the year. It wound up being a lot of fun and hard work and...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>Projects</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lightweight LLM for converting text to structured data]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/lightweight-llm-for-converting-text-to-structured-data</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/lightweight-llm-for-converting-text-to-structured-data</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In two recent papers we published at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP and on ArXiv, we presented a native approach to...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-science</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Generating a video of ducks with Luma AI Ray v2]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-a-video-of-ducks-with-luma-ai-ray-v2</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-a-video-of-ducks-with-luma-ai-ray-v2</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Luma AI's Ray v2 is now available through Amazon Bedrock. So, I tried the following prompt: "Generate a video of ducks swimming in a pond and someone rowing a...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Happy New Year and 1000 Words]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/happy-new-year-and-1000-words</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/happy-new-year-and-1000-words</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2025. I've been off, and it's been great. I'm easing back into action, and looking forward to this new year. Lot's to do, and lots to write about....]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>mini1000</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chat-CLI v0.4.5 is here, kind of]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/chat-cli-v0-4-5-is-here-kind-of</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/chat-cli-v0-4-5-is-here-kind-of</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I was really excited to start writing this blog post after pushing v0.4.5 into existence. I added quite a few new capabilities and refactored a lot of code,...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Daniel Dubrovkine on keeping a Changelog]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/daniel-dubrovkine-on-keeping-a-changelog</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/daniel-dubrovkine-on-keeping-a-changelog</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Daniel Dubrovkine or db as he likes to be called has been keeping a “CHANGELOG” of his daily activities for the last 5 1/2 years as a Principal Engineer at...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>notes</category>
      <category>Work</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reaching for Claude]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/reaching-for-claude</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/reaching-for-claude</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[More and more I am finding myself reaching for Claude to answer simple questions or help me better understand complex topics. I really love the Claude Desktop...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>claude</category>
      <category>claude-convos</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AWS re:Invent 2024 – Reimagining the developer experience at AWS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-reinvent-2024-reimagining-the-developer-experience-at-aws</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-reinvent-2024-reimagining-the-developer-experience-at-aws</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m up on a Monday morning ready to dive into this session. I watched the first 15 minutes of it live and have been meaning to go through it all. Super...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>re-invent-2024</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jeff Barr: And that's a wrap!]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/jeff-barr-and-thats-a-wrap</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/jeff-barr-and-thats-a-wrap</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[And that’s a wrap! https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/and-thats-a-wrap/ Marking this moment as I've been reading blogs from Jeff Barr for the past 20 years. And...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>blogging</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cookin up something]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/cookin-up-something</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/cookin-up-something</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>Gen</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Processing Amazon Bedrock log data with Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/processing-amazon-bedrock-log-data-with-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/processing-amazon-bedrock-log-data-with-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about an idea to allow users of my Chat-CLI program to save their chats and load them up again. My idea led me to design and build a...]]></description>
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      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on Building Conversations Support for Chat-CLI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-building-conversations-support-for-chat-cli</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-building-conversations-support-for-chat-cli</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've spent a bit of time over the past couple of days thinking more critically about how I'd like to evolve my Chat-CLI project. One of the capabilities I've...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>notes</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I asked Claude to create an interactive website for producing sinusoidal test patterns and it took less than a minute]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/i-asked-claude-to-create-an-interactive-website-for-producing-sinusoidal-test-patterns-and-it-took-less-than-a-minute</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/i-asked-claude-to-create-an-interactive-website-for-producing-sinusoidal-test-patterns-and-it-took-less-than-a-minute</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I can't really explain it, but for a long time like since the mid 90's I've been sort of obsessed with the image you see above. It's called a "sinusoidal test...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>000</category>
      <category>333</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>canvas</category>
      <category>controls</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>optics</category>
      <category>sketches</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Coca-Cola's AI Christmas]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/coca-colas-ai-christmas</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/coca-colas-ai-christmas</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I have these three AI generated ads on my mind tonight. They came out a few weeks ago or so, and they've easily sent the ad world into a tizzy–just read the...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>adtech</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AWS re:Invent 2024 – Event-driven architectures at scale: Manage millions of events]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-reinvent-2024-event-driven-architectures-at-scale-manage-millions-of-events</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-reinvent-2024-event-driven-architectures-at-scale-manage-millions-of-events</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There's an incredible number of videos already on YouTube from this year's re:Invent. In fact, most were up within 24 hours following the live session. It sort...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>eda</category>
      <category>event-driven-architecture</category>
      <category>re-invent-2024</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Generating video from still images with Amazon Nova Reel]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-video-from-still-images-with-amazon-nova-reel</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-video-from-still-images-with-amazon-nova-reel</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I suspect I'll be posting a lot of these in the weeks ahead as it's fascinating to me what you can do with the new Nova Reel and Canvas models. In a previous...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nova</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Generating videos based on generated images with Amazon Nova Canvas and Reel]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-videos-based-on-generated-images-with-amazon-nova-canvas-and-reel</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-videos-based-on-generated-images-with-amazon-nova-canvas-and-reel</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been experimenting a little with the new Nova models on Amazon Bedrock. I'm currently just doing this all through the AWS Console. Nova Reel has the...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nova</category>
      <category>video</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Adding ALL Amazon Bedrock models and more to Chat-CLI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/adding-all-amazon-bedrock-models-and-more-to-chat-cli</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/adding-all-amazon-bedrock-models-and-more-to-chat-cli</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Earlier I wrote about updating my Chat-CLI project to support the latest Amazon Nova models. It occurred to me by the end of writing that post that I needed to...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>nova</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Experimenting with Arcee Lite on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/experimenting-with-arcee-lite-on-amazon-bedrock-marketplace</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/experimenting-with-arcee-lite-on-amazon-bedrock-marketplace</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent announcement of the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace is really exciting. You can now provision over 150 LLMs from a growing list of providers and access...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Here's my first video generated with Nova Reel]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/heres-my-first-video-generated-with-nova-reel</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/heres-my-first-video-generated-with-nova-reel</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Prompt: "Generate a video of a dog eating a slice of pizza" Not bad! Nova Reel is pretty interesting. It took just a few minutes to generate this 6 second...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nova</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Use models from Amazon Bedrock Marketplace in Chat-CLI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/use-models-from-amazon-bedrock-marketplace-in-chat-cli</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/use-models-from-amazon-bedrock-marketplace-in-chat-cli</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In a previous post I talked about getting up and running with LLMs via the new Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. So, naturally I have added functionality to Chat-CLI...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Adding Amazon Nova models to Chat-CLI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/adding-amazon-nova-models-to-chat-cli</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/adding-amazon-nova-models-to-chat-cli</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've just updated Chat-CLI to support the new Nova models from Amazon that were announced at yesterday's re:Invent keynote. You will need to update your Model...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>nova</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Amazon Science: Amazon Nova and our commitment to responsible AI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-science-amazon-nova-and-our-commitment-to-responsible-ai</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-science-amazon-nova-and-our-commitment-to-responsible-ai</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Amazon Nova and our commitment to responsible AI https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-nova-and-our-commitment-to-responsible-ai The rise of foundation models...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nova</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Install Chat-CLI with Homebrew]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/install-chat-cli-with-homebrew</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/install-chat-cli-with-homebrew</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This took me a minute to figure out, but you can now easily install Chat-CLI using the popular "missing package manager for macOS or linux" called Homebrew....]]></description>
      <category>TIL</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Day 1: re:Invent 2024 from the basement]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/day-1-reinvent-2024-from-the-basement</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/day-1-reinvent-2024-from-the-basement</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm not at re:Invent this year. It's ok, I was able to go last year, and will attempt to attend next year. But, I am observing from afar, from the comfort of...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nova</category>
      <category>re-invent-2024</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The future of Chat-CLI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/the-future-of-chat-cli</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/the-future-of-chat-cli</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Lately I have been thinking about what's next for Chat-CLI. It started as a way for me to kick the tires on Amazon Bedrock, back when Bedrock was in public...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Projects</category>
      <category>tui</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AWS: CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service holding hands]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-cloudwatch-and-amazon-opensearch-service-holding-hands</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-cloudwatch-and-amazon-opensearch-service-holding-hands</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>CloudWatch</category>
      <category>observability</category>
      <category>opensearch</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Benjamen Pyle: Observing Lambda with Datadog and Golang]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/benjamen-pyle-observing-lambda-with-datadog-and-golang</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/benjamen-pyle-observing-lambda-with-datadog-and-golang</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Observing Lambda with Datadog and Golang https://binaryheap.com/observing-with-aws-lambda-datadog-and-go/ Loved this write-up on building an observability...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock InlineAgents]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-bedrock-inlineagents</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-bedrock-inlineagents</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Announcing InlineAgents for Agents for Amazon Bedrock https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/inlineagents-agents-amazon-bedrock/ This feature...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>bedrock</category>
      <category>GenerativeAI</category>
      <category>re-invent-2024</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pre-Invent Roundup]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/pre-invent-roundup</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/pre-invent-roundup</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AWS Weekly Roundup: multiple new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually Nov 25, 2024...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>re-invent-2024</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A quick sketch of the Aurora Borealis with Claude]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-quick-sketch-of-the-aurora-borealis-with-claude</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-quick-sketch-of-the-aurora-borealis-with-claude</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There's been so much chat online about people generating fake images of the Northern Lights using diffusion models, so I thought I'd see what Claude and I...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>000</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>claude</category>
      <category>claude-convos</category>
      <category>sketches</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Werner Vogels – Return of The Frugal Architect(s)]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/werner-vogels-return-of-the-frugal-architects</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/werner-vogels-return-of-the-frugal-architects</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Return of The Frugal Architects https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/11/return-of-the-frugal-architect.html Dr. Vogels has just announced on his website...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>architecture</category>
      <category>frugality</category>
      <category>podcasts</category>
      <category>solutions-architecture</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Xe: Getting a pointer to a constant in Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/xe-getting-a-pointer-to-a-constant-in-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/xe-getting-a-pointer-to-a-constant-in-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Getting a pointer to a constant in Go https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/go-pointer-constant/ Nice and quick write-up on how to get a pointer to a constant in Go. I...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building an interactive growth calculator with Claude]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-an-interactive-growth-calculator-with-claude</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-an-interactive-growth-calculator-with-claude</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I asked Anthropic's Claude to build me a simple, interactive calculator as a static website for looking at year over year growth. It's simple math, but nice to...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>3b82f6</category>
      <category>4b5563</category>
      <category>artifacts</category>
      <category>claude</category>
      <category>claude-convos</category>
      <category>e0f2fe</category>
      <category>e2e8f0</category>
      <category>f0f9ff</category>
      <category>f8fafc</category>
      <category>genai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Decision Guide: AWS Fargate or AWS Lambda?]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/decision-guide-aws-fargate-or-aws-lambda</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/decision-guide-aws-fargate-or-aws-lambda</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AWS Fargate or AWS Lambda? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/decision-guides/latest/fargate-or-lambda/fargate-or-lambda.html There is a new and very useful decision...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>compute</category>
      <category>containers</category>
      <category>fargate</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mark Sailes – Driving Technical Change in Large Organizations: A Guide for working at AWS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/mark-sailes-driving-technical-change-in-large-organizations-a-guide-for-working-at-aws</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/mark-sailes-driving-technical-change-in-large-organizations-a-guide-for-working-at-aws</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The variety and scope of work involved as an SA is also very unusual. One day could be an architecture review, the next a security incident review with a CSO,...]]></description>
      <category>Quotes</category>
      <category>amazon</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>solutions-architecture</category>
      <category>Work</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AWS Lambda turns 10]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-lambda-turns-10</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aws-lambda-turns-10</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Birgitta Böckeler: Exploring Generative AI]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/birgitta-bockeler-exploring-generative-ai</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/birgitta-bockeler-exploring-generative-ai</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Exploring Generative AI https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html Previously, developers could rely on Copilot for minor assistance, such as...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>copilot</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>q-developer</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Generating AWS Architecture Diagrams with Claude]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-aws-architecture-diagrams-with-claude</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/generating-aws-architecture-diagrams-with-claude</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been really enjoying creating code artifacts with Anthropic's Claude. The interface is really simple and easy to use, and in many cases it can generate...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>architecture</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>claude</category>
      <category>claude-convos</category>
      <category>diagrams</category>
      <category>javascript</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Seb Chan – 98. Sound, media and art adventures in South Korea]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/seb-chan-98-sound-media-and-art-adventures-in-south-korea</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/seb-chan-98-sound-media-and-art-adventures-in-south-korea</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I was amused by MAPS’ Ai & Me, a snarky AI therapist or fortune teller that uses computer vision to make mean judgements about your personality and...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>interactive</category>
      <category>people</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aurora Serverless Scales to Zero]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aurora-serverless-scales-to-zero</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/aurora-serverless-scales-to-zero</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Introducing scaling to 0 capacity with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>database</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Amazon at EMNLP 2024]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-at-emnlp-2024</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/amazon-at-emnlp-2024</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A quick guide to Amazon’s 50-plus papers at EMNLP 2024 https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-quick-guide-to-amazons-50-plus-papers-at-emnlp-2024 Amazon Science has...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-science</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nlp</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rewriting chat-cli, again]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/rewriting-chat-cli-again</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/rewriting-chat-cli-again</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m in my third rewrite of chat-cli. The first version was really, really wonky. I was just getting started with writing a CLI in Go, and I took a number of...]]></description>
      <category>Projects</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Writing Technical Documentation That Developers Actually Read]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/writing-technical-documentation</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/writing-technical-documentation</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Practical strategies for creating clear, useful technical documentation that helps developers succeed.]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>Documentation</category>
      <category>Technical Writing</category>
      <category>Developer Experience</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hosting Static Sites with S3 and CloudFront]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/cloudfront-s3-static-sites</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/cloudfront-s3-static-sites</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Build a fast, secure, and cost-effective static website hosting solution using AWS S3 and CloudFront CDN.]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>S3</category>
      <category>CloudFront</category>
      <category>Static Sites</category>
      <category>CDN</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Art of Prompt Engineering]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/prompt-engineering-guide</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/prompt-engineering-guide</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Master the techniques for crafting effective prompts that unlock the full potential of large language models.]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Prompts</category>
      <category>LLMs</category>
      <category>Best Practices</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[6 Weeks of Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/6-weeks-of-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/6-weeks-of-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been "going live" every Friday for the past six weeks. It's been pretty fun! Each week I spend an hour and a half talking through how I would build...]]></description>
      <category>Streaming</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>building-stuff</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>streams</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Turning my voice into blog posts with Amazon Transcribe and Bedrock]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/turning-my-voice-into-blog-posts-with-amazon-transcribe-and-bedrock</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/turning-my-voice-into-blog-posts-with-amazon-transcribe-and-bedrock</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Finding My Creative Voice I've always felt a tension between my technical side and my artistic side. For years, I've compartmentalized these interests, keeping...]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>genai</category>
      <category>nlp</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[S1 E2 – Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement – API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Bedrock]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/s1-e2-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/s1-e2-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I have to say, I'm impressed with myself. I managed to pull off another livestream this past Friday. Another 90 minutes of me, slowly walking you through...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>cloudfront</category>
      <category>DynamoDB</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Live</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[S1 E1 – Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/s1-e1-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/s1-e1-building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed live streaming for the first time last Friday. It was a h00t! If you weren't able to join live, please check out the recording below. It's...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>Live</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Serverless Architecture Patterns on AWS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/serverless-architecture-aws</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/serverless-architecture-aws</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Exploring modern serverless patterns using Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB to build scalable, cost-effective applications.]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>Serverless</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>Architecture</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[LIVE this Friday: Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-stuff-on-aws-in-my-basement</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm gonna be doing a live-stream this Friday on Twitch. It will be just myself, sitting at the desk you see in the photo above, talking about building stuff on...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Live</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Add Fathom Analytics to your Obsidian Publish site]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/add-fathom-analytics-to-your-obsidian-publish-site</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/add-fathom-analytics-to-your-obsidian-publish-site</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today I figured out how to embed the tracking code for Fathom Analytics into an Obsidian Publish website. It's easy. That's it!]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>Analytics</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
      <category>Websites</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building AI Agents with Claude]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-ai-agents</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-ai-agents</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A deep dive into creating autonomous AI agents that can reason, plan, and execute complex tasks using Claude's API.]]></description>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Claude</category>
      <category>Agents</category>
      <category>LLMs</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trigger builds in AWS Amplify with DynamoDB]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/trigger-builds-in-aws-amplify-with-dynamodb</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/trigger-builds-in-aws-amplify-with-dynamodb</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm building a thing. I'll write more about that thing in the near future. But, in the meantime, I thought I'd write a little about one small other thing I...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>Amplify</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>DynamoDB</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>SAM</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dealing with AWS Lambda deployment package size limits]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/lambda-package-size-limits</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/lambda-package-size-limits</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Package Size Limits via the AWS Console have been updated since the writing of this blog post. I've added the new limits in the parenthesis below. I...]]></description>
      <category>AWS</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Deploying Serverless Go projects with AWS SAM Pipelines and GitHub Actions]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/deploying-serverless-go-projects-with-aws-sam-pipelines-and-github-actions</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/deploying-serverless-go-projects-with-aws-sam-pipelines-and-github-actions</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wow, that title is a mouthful. Here's what it means: You can use AWS SAM to easily construct at Serverless Application on AWS where the AWS Lambda code is...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>CICD</category>
      <category>go</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A SAM Starter Template for Serverless Go Projects on AWS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-sam-starter-template-for-serverless-go-projects</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-sam-starter-template-for-serverless-go-projects</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A while back I created a repo on GitHub that was simply the output of doing sam init and choosing the AWS Quick Start Template for a Hello World Example. From...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>SAM</category>
      <category>serverless</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Working with Amazon Bedrock's Streaming Response API and Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/working-with-amazon-bedrocks-streaming-response-api-and-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/working-with-amazon-bedrocks-streaming-response-api-and-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[While working on my chat-cli program, I realized that waiting for a response from Amazon Bedrock could take some time, depending on the nature of your prompt....]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>GenerativeAI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A super simple TTY loop in Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-super-simple-tty-interface-in-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-super-simple-tty-interface-in-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In yesterday's post I talked about building an Amazon Bedrock powered CLI that allowed for an interactive chat. Below is more or less the code I started with...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Generative AI CLI with Amazon Bedrock and Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-a-generative-ai-cli-with-amazon-bedrock-and-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/building-a-generative-ai-cli-with-amazon-bedrock-and-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[chat-cli is a project I've been working on for the past couple months. It started out as a way to kick the tires on the now publicly available Amazon Bedrock...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>1</category>
      <category>2</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>amazon-bedrock</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>chat-cli</category>
      <category>GenerativeAI</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>LLM</category>
      <category>Projects</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Running Go Programs on AWS App Runner]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/running-go-programs-on-aws-app-runner</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/running-go-programs-on-aws-app-runner</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I spent some time this week thinking about deploying Go programs and decided to learn how to containerize Go and in that process also decided to take a look at...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>AWS App Runner</category>
      <category>Docker</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Go Packages, Go Docs, and the Distance Image]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/go-packages-go-docs-and-the-distance-image</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/go-packages-go-docs-and-the-distance-image</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The past couple weeks have been pretty productive in terms of my mission to learn Go. I started reading this excellent book called "The Go Programming...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Imaging</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Getting going with Go]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/getting-going-with-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/getting-going-with-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I've been getting going with Go for about a week now and I've already learned so much! I realized last weekend that I had two primary interests I want to focus...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I'm gonna learn Go!]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/im-gonna-learn-go</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/im-gonna-learn-go</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm gonna learn Go! Not the 2500 year old Chinese board game, the 13 year old programming language developed at Google. I have a little experience with Go, but...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>go</category>
      <category>Lambda</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on backing up my Mastodon server to S3]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-backing-up-my-mastodon-server-to-s3</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-backing-up-my-mastodon-server-to-s3</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I mentioned in my last post on how...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>data</category>
      <category>Glacier</category>
      <category>Mastodon</category>
      <category>s3</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/how-much-ive-spent-so-far-running-my-own-mastodon-server-on-aws</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own single-user...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Mastodon</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Auto-Incrementing DynamoDB with Lambda and a Function URL]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/auto-incrementing-dynamodb-with-lambda-and-a-function-url</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/auto-incrementing-dynamodb-with-lambda-and-a-function-url</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I worked this out a while back using TypeScript, but for some reason I decided I needed to redo this in Python. So, here it is. This is simply a CDK...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>1</category>
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      <category>6</category>
      <category>8</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>DynamoDB</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on serving images and a brief Mastodon server outage]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-serving-images-and-a-brief-mastodon-server-outage</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-serving-images-and-a-brief-mastodon-server-outage</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own Mastodon...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>cloudfront</category>
      <category>CloudWatch</category>
      <category>DevOps</category>
      <category>ec2</category>
      <category>Mastodon</category>
      <category>s3</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on configuring Amazon CloudWatch to monitor my Mastodon server]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-configuring-amazon-cloudwatch-to-monitor-my-mastodon-server</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-configuring-amazon-cloudwatch-to-monitor-my-mastodon-server</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ It’s day 2 of running my own...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>CloudWatch</category>
      <category>DevOps</category>
      <category>ec2</category>
      <category>Mastodon</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on running a Mastodon server on AWS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-running-a-mastodon-server-on-aws</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/notes-on-running-a-mastodon-server-on-aws</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ It’s been a few weeks now since...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>ec2</category>
      <category>Mastodon</category>
      <category>Projects</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AssumeRole Compatible S3 Clients for MacOS]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/assumerole-compatible-s3-clients-for-macos</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/assumerole-compatible-s3-clients-for-macos</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There are many, many excellent client applications available for connecting to an Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 Bucket from macOS. Over the years, I’ve used...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>IAM</category>
      <category>s3</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Calculating Server Capacity for High Availability]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/calculating-server-capacity-for-high-availability</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/calculating-server-capacity-for-high-availability</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today I was studying for an upcoming AWS Certification and I had a chance to learn a handy method for calculating server capacity for high availability. It’s...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>DevOps</category>
      <category>ec2</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transferring Amazon Glacier Deep Archives from one account to another]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/transferring-amazon-glacier-deep-archives-from-one-account-to-another</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/transferring-amazon-glacier-deep-archives-from-one-account-to-another</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I recently decided to re-do my personal AWS accounts using AWS IAM Identity Center SSO and AWS Control Tower. For reasons mostly having to do with house...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Glacier</category>
      <category>s3</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Today I Learned]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/today-i-learned</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/today-i-learned</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m starting a new mini-series on here. It’s called “Today I Learned.” I was recently reading “What to blog about” by Simon Willison, where he talks about...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>Athena</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>tech</category>
      <category>TIL</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What to do if you throw your back out in the middle of Hong Kong’s Central Station]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/what-to-do-if-you-throw-your-back-out-in-the-middle-of-hong-kongs-central-station</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/what-to-do-if-you-throw-your-back-out-in-the-middle-of-hong-kongs-central-station</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m having a hard time understanding how it’s already been a whole year since the last time I wrote a lengthy blog post on September 11th. And yet, here we...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>Stories</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Tactical Approach to Landing a New Job]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-tactical-approach-to-landing-a-new-job</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/a-tactical-approach-to-landing-a-new-job</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This past week was an interesting one. I was interviewed by David Nuñez and his co-host, Dan Boyd, for their weekly Twitter Space where David talks to “smart...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Career</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Super Simple Serverless Image Processor and Website]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/the-super-simple-serverless-image-processor-and-website</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/the-super-simple-serverless-image-processor-and-website</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week I had an idea for a small project that I needed to get out of my head and into reality. The little idea was bugging me—nagging me, and so rather than...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>aws</category>
      <category>Experiments</category>
      <category>Projects</category>
      <category>tech</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Are You Happy, or Not, or Not Sure?]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/are-you-happy-or-not-or-not-sure</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/are-you-happy-or-not-or-not-sure</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Here I am again. Typing! Yesterday’s heat felt ok to me, but I didn’t have to leave the house too much, and certainly didn’t have to walk all over the subway...]]></description>
      <category>Writing</category>
      <category>Updates</category>
      <category>Work</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Summer is coming, the solopreneurs, and minding your garden]]></title>
      <link>https://micahwalter.com/posts/summer-is-coming-the-solopreneurs-and-minding-your-garden</link>
      <guid>https://micahwalter.com/posts/summer-is-coming-the-solopreneurs-and-minding-your-garden</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Just start writing. This is my best advice for anyone who is stuck with writing. Like I’ve been, recently. Just start typing on the keys and see what happens....]]></description>
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      <category>Updates</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Harry’s Little Log Book]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One of my childhood memories is that my grandfather used to keep a little spiral bound notebook in the glove compartment of his cars. There was a little gold...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Nice Place to Prototype Ideas]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I’m working on a new project. I don’t really know what it is or what it will be just yet. It’s called “words.” And at the moment, it’s just a nice place to try...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Meditations: Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Careful readers may have picked up on the reference in the title of my previous post, which is a subtle nod to one of my favorite books by French philosopher,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Hasn’t Everything Already Been Backed Up?]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In the past month I’ve had two friends reach out to me in a panic because they lost all their data during the upgrade process to macOS Monterey. Yes, I am that...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Life forensics]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Research for yesterday’s post was interesting. It’s not always easy remembering what took place decades ago. To get myself into the right frame of mind I...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[What is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen? It’s a hard question to answer isn’t it? It could be one magical sunset, or the time your kayak paddle broke...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Welcome to something new]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Over a year ago I tried to write a weekly newsletter. Writing is very cathartic for me, and the idea of sharing my words with an audience has always intrigued...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Meditations in a new home]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There's some getting used to a new place. It takes time to adapt to new surroundings and a new routine. I've been thinking about this since I left the city...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Yubisneezes]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There is something that I have discovered called a "Yubisneeze." Let me explain. A "Yubikey" is a small device that plugs into your USB port and enables a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Notes on Notes]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I noticed David was Tweeting about taking notes yesterday, and it got me thinking that I might like to share a little about how I've been taking notes lately,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Managing my email without Hey.com]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[If you know me, you probably know I've been somewhat obsessed with a new email service called Hey.com. I was an early adopter last year when it launched and...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Halt and catch myself browsing eBay for vintage computers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It's me again. Writing. Not really sure where this is going, so hold on tight. This past weekend our family pulled up roots and transplanted ourselves to a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brooklyn, Never fuggedaboutit]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Today is my last day living in the wonderful borough of Brooklyn, New York. I've been here for the past 11 years, nearly all of it spent in a small two-bedroom...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Parking in Brooklyn]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago my wife and I brought home a new car. We are moving out to Long Island tomorrow after living in this two-bedroom apartment since 2010 and...]]></description>
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