I spent some time experiementing with Inngest, cloud software for running async jobs, workflows, crons and more. It's quite similar to Temporal, which I am big advocate for for running durable...
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I had a bunch of fun following along with this post with my own Hugo blog to construct a sqlite database of metadata. Building the database indices, I found a mistake I had made years ago in defining...
Further investigation with Open Interpreter today reaffirmed certain strengths but also revealed a number of weaknesses. The look is excellent at parsing structured data like JSON or CSV, doing...
I did some more experimentation with open-interpreter today. The first use case I tried was to create, organize and reorganize files. It didn't generate interesting content, but it was fluent at...
I read quote from a long tweet the other day that made me smile. Writing pure JavaScript is like trying to cut a watermelon with a chainsaw in the dark. It sounds fun and free and quite easy until...
Playing with Rivet and OpenInterpreter
It's much easier to test Temporal Workflow in Python by invoking the contents of the individual Activities first, in the shell or via a separate script, then composing them into a Workflow. I need to...
Language models and prompts are magic in a world of deterministic software. As prompts change and use cases evolve, it can be difficult to continue to have confidence in the output of a...
I've been doing a bit of work with Temporal using it's Python SDK. Temporal remains one of my favorite pieces of technology to work with. The team is very thoughtful with their API design and it...
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