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Hypermedia Systems
The book segment header links (in italic [0]) serve raw html which is probably not the intention (unless its an exercise for the reader that I've missed in my quickscan :-)
The section on mobile clients seems very timely. At least one fediverse server [1] is adopting elements of htmx and it would seem that the corresponding clients would be a canonical example using this technology.
[0] https://hypermedia.systems/book/part/htmx
[1] https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe
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Mastodon server maintenance: The Queues down in Queueville
The Mastodon-compatible alternative I'm looking at the most is Takahe: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/
Its goal is to be lightweight and able to run on low resources and serverless infra. It also wants to support multi-domain multi-identity. Built on Django.
- Django project structure best practices
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What happens if the Mastodon server I create an account on ceases existing?
Recently someone linked an interesting project called Takahe that supports multiple domains on one instance, so maybe someday we'll see servers that can host many accounts with their own domain names for cheap or free.
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Takahē - An efficient ActivityPub Server, for small installs with multiple domains
Before anyone else wonders, like I did, you can see from the GitHub repo that it uses Django.
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An efficient ActivityPub Server, for small installs with multiple domains
Hmm.. does not look good for the non-Docker setup. The developer replied with "I am deliberately avoiding offering a non-Docker install path":
https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/issues/44
Creating a non-Docker fork would then probably be an uphill battle.
simonwillisonblog
- Sandboxing Python with Win32 App Isolation
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AI for Web Devs: Addressing Bugs, Security, & Reliability
Simon Willison has pointed out several examples of prompt injection attacks and why it may never be a solved problem:
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Where Have All the Websites Gone?
I want more people to have link blogs.
I have one in the sidebar of https://simonwillison.net/ which I've been running since November 2003. You can search through all 6,836 links here: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark
I can post things to it with a bookmarklet. It has an Atom feed.
It's such a low-friction way of publishing. A lot of https://daringfireball.net works like this too. I also like https://waxy.org/ and https://kottke.org/ for this.
I'd love to see more of these.
- Ask HN: Is it feasible to train my own LLM?
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Moving Away from Substack
My approach is to publish to my own blog at https://simonwillison.net and then copy and paste content from that into a Substack newsletter at https://simonw.substack.com a few times a month.
It's been working really well.
Substack don't have an API, but they do support copy and paste - so I built myself a tool that assembles my blog content into rich text I can copy and paste straight into the Substack editor.
I wrote about how that works here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/
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Building a Blog in Django
Hah, yeah securing something like WordPress can be a challenge, especially if you're running a bunch of plugins.
My blog is a pretty straight-forward Django setup without many other dependencies, so it's a lot less of an attack surface: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog
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Show HN: Superfunctions – AI prompt templates as an API
That specific prompt is just an example and it's pretty bad, it was the shortest and simplest prompt I could come up with that would be easily understood.
You can set response content-types (text, html, json, etc...). If you use json it will get pretty good results because I have some is some logic to attempt to pick out json or json5 objects from the text output. I dont yet have logic to support json arrays, but I'm hoping to add that soon.
But still client side validation is needed for applications with untrusted input. I dont attempt to solve prompt injection. I saw a lot of interesting posts on this topic from this blog https://simonwillison.net/. I need to find sometime to read more about it.
Try this one instead, it should be better
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Stopping at 90%
I've started to consider "commit to writing about it" as the price I have to pay for giving into the lure of another project. It's one of the main reasons I publish so much content on https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net
A project with a published write-up unlocks so much more value than one which you complete without giving others a chance of understanding what you built.
I've maintained internal blogs (sometimes just a Slack channel or Confluence area) at previous employers for this purpose too.
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Stanford A.I. Courses
I think you are asking specifically about practical LLM engineering and not the underlying science.
Honestly this is all moving so fast you can do well by reading the news, following a few reddits/substacks, and skimming the prompt engineering papers as they come out every week (!).
https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer provides an early manifesto for this nascent layer of the stack.
Zvi writes a good roundup (though he is concerned mostly with alignment so skip if you don’t like that angle): https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-18-the-great-debate-debates
Simon W has some good writeups too: https://simonwillison.net/
I strongly recommend playing with the OpenAI APIs and working with langchain in a Colab notebook to get a feel for how these all fit together. Also, the tools here are incredibly simple and easy to understand (very new) so looking at, say, https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/tree/main/simpleai... or https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and digging in to the prompts, what goes in system vs assistant roles, how you gourde the LLM, etc.
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Seeking Your Top Recommendations for Resources on ChatGPT and Generative AI
Simon Willison's Weblog
What are some alternatives?
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
pg_cjk_parser - Postgres CJK Parser pg_cjk_parser is a fts (full text search) parser derived from the default parser in PostgreSQL 11. When a postgres database uses utf-8 encoding, this parser supports all the features of the default parser while splitting CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters into 2-gram tokens. If the database's encoding is not utf-8, the parser behaves just like the default parser.
activity-kit - An attempt to build a spec-compliant ActivityPub core library.
pgvector - Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
awesome-personal-blogs - A delightful list of personal tech blogs
hypermedia-systems - A book on building Hypermedia Driven Applications with htmx and Hyperview
tsv-utils - eBay's TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files. Filtering, statistics, sampling, joins and more.
awesome-ml - Curated list of useful LLM / Analytics / Datascience resources
knowledge - Everything I know
zsv - zsv+lib: tabular data swiss-army knife CLI + world's fastest (simd) CSV parser
Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog - This is a repository for the code posted on my blog