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An ad for removing ads, in my garage door opener app.
May 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Streamable HTTP transport for MCP means Stripe can just abandon its agent SDK and ship mcp dot stripe dot com (which already resolves btw...)
April 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Very excited to announce that the company I started with @conroy.org has raised $2.7M in seed funding from matrix.vc with participation from 43.io and a handful of our favorite angels.

850M code execution requests in March, and we're scaling up to run tons more.

riza.io/blog/riza-ra...
April 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Seems bad. If only there were some way to mitigate this...
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Can AI monitor FB marketplace for me yet or no?
April 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Reposted by Andrew Benton
Have more data than data scientists? LLMs can help.

Here's a chart Anthropic's Claude generated using Riza that shows trends in San Francisco city employee salaries.

And you can repeat this infinitely over other data.

Here's how:
February 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Anyone using (or formerly used) vm2 or isolated-vm and looking to migrate now that they're both either deprecated or in maintenance mode?
February 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Shipped a new version of the @riza.io self-hosted container image that can handle way more interesting JavaScript workloads.

What JS/TS libraries are good for plotting graphs these days?
February 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by Andrew Benton
Introducing: the Execute Function API 🤖🚀

It's now easier to execute LLM-generated code with structured inputs and outputs.

Here's how:
February 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I haven't figured out a polite way to talk to people who bring their dogs into SF playgrounds, having walked in through a gate that reads "no dogs allowed." So I say nothing. But I think it's selfish and rude and I'd like to nudge people to stop.
February 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Everybody to the limit
February 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Fellow cyclists, don't do this
January 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Ctrl+F wins again
January 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Announcing @riza.io support for running code that depends on any PyPI or npm package.

The same fast, isolated execution engine, now with more juice!

riza.io/blog/introdu...
Introducing Riza Custom Runtimes | Riza Blog
riza.io
January 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Of all the games that are equivalent to a random number generator picking a winner, bingo is the worst.
January 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Kids are asleep and we're still working on the magnatiles marble run
January 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Was "per quart" the only option here?
December 24, 2024 at 5:13 PM
At @mozilla.ai Builders Demo Day today, will be live-skeeting.
December 5, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Reposted by Andrew Benton
shipped a new @riza.io API today: tools!

define and edit tools
attach secrets securely
hook em up to LLMs

riza.io/blog/introdu...
Introducing the Riza Tools API | Riza Blog
riza.io
December 2, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Reposted by Andrew Benton
In Summer 2021, I put a pinhole solar camera on the tower of St John's college in Cambridge, UK to image the Sun's path. This was the result!

Each separate arc is a day, and over time you slowly reveal the pattern that the Sun follows over the course of a year 🌞🔭🧪
December 1, 2024 at 11:10 AM
I doubt they market-tested with this particular demographic, but my 20-month-old absolutely loves the United Airlines safety video with the rolling ball.
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 AM
String manipulation in Rust is very annoying.
November 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
While updating the
@riza.io OpenAI function calling integration guide I really struggled to get gpt-4o to produce Python that prints to stdout. Putting "Always print output to stdout" in the function description and parameter description wasn't enough.
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 AM
@riza.io

print("@conroy.org cool demo")

#python
November 19, 2024 at 11:16 PM
After doing my own research, I've come to the conclusion that Michael Bolton doesn't suck as much as Office Space had led me to believe.
November 19, 2024 at 5:08 PM