Mat Miller
matdmiller.bsky.social
Mat Miller
@matdmiller.bsky.social
AI, Engineer, Developer, Traveler, Technologist, @fastdotai Fellow
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February 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I really liked Gradio for AI web apps but it felt limiting. Then FastHTML came along and I finally felt I could write real web apps myself.
January 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Thanks! Jupyter was what drove me to set this up originally as well! Then I crashed my system when away and couldn't recover it so I added PiKVM. And just kept adding from there. It's so easy to do and I feel more secure with additional Cloudflare auth in front of the apps than with port forwarding.
January 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Cursor with Sonnet 3.5. I sometimes will use O1 if I want to knock out a lot of code in 1 shot that has a common pattern that’s likely well represented in the training data. Doing things that aren’t well represented in the training data still requires a lot of supervision.
January 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Unfortunately yes. This is expected. It’s not symmetrical like fiber.
January 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@howard.fm’s following list is good!
January 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
True! I use ephemeral VM’s through Databricks for data engineering work and I don’t think of them as serverless but I guess they are. When I think of severless I think of AWS Lambda with near instant starts and short runtimes.
January 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Mat Miller
I like Anthropic's "contextual retrieval" suggestion for creating chunks simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/20/...
Introducing Contextual Retrieval
Here's an interesting new embedding/RAG technique, described by Anthropic but it should work for any embedding model against any other LLM. One of the big challenges in implementing semantic search …
simonwillison.net
January 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Welcome! Glad to have you!
January 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yea. Serverless is cool for small tasks but just doesn’t work for full applications without a lot of consideration if it works at all.
January 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For sure! This is perfect for a college budget!
January 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Mat Miller
Looks like @graze.social exists already!

Their programming language is a nested JSON object of filters and Boolean operations: www.graze.social/docs/editor-...

bsky.app/profile/graz...
January 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For starting out and especially for personal projects it just makes a lot of sense. You just don’t have to make an ‘investment decision’ every time you want to try something out. It’s ~free so just follow your curiosity!
January 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Quarto is fantastic!!! Let me know if you have any questions 😀
January 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
And no, this isn't sponsored or anything, I just love @Cloudflare Tunnels and appreciate the generous free tier!
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Quick start:
1. Point your domain to Cloudflare
2. Spin up the Cloudflare tunnel with Docker
3. Add your apps
4. Access them securely from anywhere

Questions about setting this up? Drop them below - I read every comment and love helping others get started!
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I built an app that has helped my 2-year-old daughter start to read, apps to control 3D model software, and an app to stream local TV stations over the internet, along with a few others.
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I've built half a dozen apps using FastHTML so far over the last 6 months ranging from a hundred lines to several thousand and it's been a delight to work with.
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Want to build your own apps to run locally? You need to try FastHTML fastht.ml by @howard.fm. It's super easy and fast to get started. I struggled learning web development in the past, and this framework finally made it simple enough for me to really get started.
FastHTML
Modern web applications in pure Python
fastht.ml
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The performance is impressive too - we're talking 500+ Mbps speeds, more than enough for most applications.

Want the really good news? @cloudflare Tunnels has a generous FREE tier and is super simple to use!
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I've been running this setup for over a year, and it has transformed how I run apps and services. No more worrying about recurring fees, security exposure, and complex setups.
January 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM