A new non-technical project is in the works for the spring and into the summer months. Click here to follow along - https://micahwalter.substack.com/p/fight-for-your-rite-of-spring
Micah Walter
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Investigations in AI, Cloud, and Creativity ☁️🤖🖼️
Years from now it will be cool to write code again, like how it’s cool to shoot film now.
My short story, “Mike’s Place” is now available on Amazon for $5 or free on Kindle Unlimited.
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Mike's Place: A short story about something that happened (English Edition)
Über Kindle empfohlen. Beschreibung: In 2003, during the height of The Second Intifada, in the weeks and months following the United States invasion of Iraq, I had spent the majority of my time exploring Israel and the ongoing conflict happening around me. ...
Micah WalterHugh Howey & DeepSeek R1: The Algorithm that Learned to Listen
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 it a test I’ve given other AIs. The results were astounding. What emerged was a conversation — prompt and poetry — that felt different from anything I’d played with before. The Algorithm that Learned to Listen contains over two dozen poems written entirely by AI. Poems profound, lyrical, and deeply moving that explore what it means to exist, to create, and to connect in a world where the line between human and machine is increasingly blurred.
Check it out on Amazon Kindle (free for KindleUnlimited subscribers)
Extended Thinking with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock is Wow!
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 Bedrock, and it’s just wow.
In Bedrock, just switch on “Model reasoning” in the playground and give it a whirl.
So many possibilities. I’m still collecting my thoughts. More to come.
Chat-CLI and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet
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 Bedrock, and shortly after that I went and made sure it works with Chat-CLI.
It works!
I didn’t have to update any code at all as I am using Bedrock’s Converse API. It just works as if it was always there.
One of the greatest album covers of all time. I mean, that’s graphic design at its peak!
Anatomy of a AWS Lambda function in Go
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 is surrounded by a vibrant and expansive community. It's also highly performant on AWS Lambda and has great support for concurrency. Go is awesome on AWS Lambda, but I always hear people complaining that it's difficult to get started. So, here is a super simple explainer post that will hopefully alleviate some of those […]https://www.micahwalter.com/2025/02/anatomy-of-a-aws-lambda-function-in-go/
Anatomy of a AWS Lambda function in Go - Micah Walter
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 is surrounded by a vibrant and expansive community. It’s also highly performant on AWS Lambda and has great support for concurrency. Go is awesome on AWS Lambda, […]
Aaron Straup Cope | Keynote Speech FACT Symposium
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 projects we worked on together and the things I worked on after he and Seb Chan left the team at Cooper Hewitt.
It’s been 15 years since and I’m amazed at how the work is still talked about across the sector. I’m really proud of that work and reflecting these days, I’m glad we did the things we did and in the way we did them, even when they wound up looking like “expensive mistakes.”
This talk is worth your time if you care about cultural heritage, museums, and the internet. It’s especially relevant today as we are continually asked to bear witness to the possible undoing of hundreds of years of American democracy!
it's not magic – finding our way back to 'just f*cking do it' from 'move fast and break things'
As a general rule plywood and two-by-fours are the structural underpinnings of nearly everything in the built environment no matter how posh, luxurious or expensive the surface trappings. In that same way at least one, but usually both, of the core technologies that define the web still run most of what we call “modern” despite it being old and outdated. Crucially, the reason that plywood, two-by-fours and the web are so important is not because they self-assemble. They don’t. They are important because the qualities which define them make the process of assembling and, critically, re-assembling affordable in time, money and cognitive overhead. They are the means not the ends.
Mike’s Place – The photos
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 resulted in something I am somewhat proud of. You can read all about it over on my Substack, which I created just for these kinds of projects. You can also subscribe if you are interested in the next project I'll be working on this summer. For now, I thought it would be nice to put all the photos from the story here. Each one was assigned […]
Mike's Place - The photos - Micah Walter
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 resulted in something I am somewhat proud of. You can read all about it over on my Substack, which I created just for […]