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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 13/02/2025

People are out here reinventing the Minnesota State Fair

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 31/01/2025

The more I think about this the madder I get

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 27/01/2025

This...this is not what 500 is for

Amazon S3 returns a 500 error when you've done a particular thing wrong

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Yan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 22/01/2025

This is AWESOME!! EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. More details here: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I just wanna triple down on saying: push to create environments in your work where people feel okay saying "I don't know" or "I'm not aware of [...]" So much time is wasted on egos and optics to know everything that could otherwise be used to identify gaps and next steps. Get out of that trap.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/11/2023

all this time i thought the lasers were going in the other direction

Bored Ape #9291. A brown-furred ape, wearing a slouchy orange beanie and black t-shirt, has its mouth open in a sort of smile. There are red laser beams shooting out of (or perhaps into) its eyes.

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austin @aparker.io · 17/09/2023

every day we drift further from gods light

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

As someone smarter than me said, there are two takes on Elon Musk: one is that he's Henry Ford, and the other is that he's Henry Ford. It just depends on what you actually know about Henry Ford.

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El Gato Astronomico @astrocat.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

The rich are engineering an existence only for themselves and largely don't really realize it I think

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Yep. I think a lot about "pinch" the concept I first learned from mobile game design that by making something inconvenient, you can charge people to make that inconvenience go away. And once you learn to spot pinch in all aspects of society, you can't unsee it.

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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 08/09/2023

Oooohhh these are some great additions to AWS Step Functions: - Custom error messages in fail states - JitterStrategy for retries (!) - MaxDelaySeconds for retries

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AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling

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Allan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Not ready to implement Zero Trust, so we’ve decided on a security posture based on “Two Truths and a Lie”

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

it'd be cool to nationalize basically everything Musk owns

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 07/09/2023

Some news: next year I'll be starting a job at Siemens Digital Industries in Erlangen, Germany! Looking forward to many interesting challenges to bring the serverless mindset to. And I'm going to be an EMEA Hero!

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Soren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

When people are nostalgic about Ye Olde Internette and wonder why we can't recapture that, this is why: the old internet was atomized **and that was good, actually**. But no one's gonna become a billionaire off of 3 million different self-hosted niche interest phpBB sites so here we are.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2023

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/08/2023

as a junior engineer: "can't wait for the day I have prod access!" as a senior engineer: "take prod access away from me RIGHT NOW"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/08/2023

Even after more than a decade of Uber, people don’t seem to get that the venture capitalists only subsidize the “disruptive” tech long enough to throw the displaced workers into permanent precarity, then they raise prices after destroying the overall market. Cab driver suicides are the strategy.

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Mike @mike.raccoon.bike · 13/08/2023

Literally every bus driver on the planet does more for green transport every day than musk has done in his life

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 09/08/2023

This is just to say I honored and commemorated the place and the deeds which you had sent me a message about Forgive me The danger was present in my time as it was in yours

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/08/2023

Don't worry physicists, programmers don't know how to do reproducible builds or document them either.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/08/2023

very classic blockchain use case, in that it would be better served with a solution like "literally do nothing, it would be cheaper and more effective"

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/07/2023

meanwhile let's see what the most powerful man on the planet has to say about this issue

MEMORANDUM TO STAFF OF THE VICE PRESIDENT DATE NOVEMBER 7, 2014

To My Wonderful Staff,

I would like to take a moment and make something clear to everyone. I do not expect nor do I want any of you to miss or sacrifice important family obligations for work. Family obligations include but are not limited to family birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, any religious ceremonies such as first communions and bar mitzvahs, graduations, and times of need such as illness or a loss in the family. This is very important to me. In fact, I will go so far as to say that if I find out that you are working with me while missing important family responsibilities, it will disappoint me greatly. This has been an unwritten rule since my days in the Senate.

Thank you all for the hard work.

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 29/07/2023

At this point, I think it's the receiver's responsibility to manage notification settings

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 27/07/2023

It's still weird to me that FedEx/UPS/USPS haven't come up with a system for using opaque identifiers for shipping. Two people should be able to exchange a package without revealing either address

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/07/2023

the same companies that have made it illegal for me to copy blu rays for my personal use want to copy people for their commercial use

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/07/2023

I really hope Elon Musk tries fintech. Regulators love guys like this. They adore guys who live on the bleeding edge of truth

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Alan Kyle @alank.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

twitter sign change isn’t going well. Building management called cops

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/07/2023

Again, I'm not the boss of you, but if you're a journalist who has to report on what billionaires say, please consider NOT writing "[billionaire] will do [whatever]" and instead write "[billionaire] claims he will do [whatever]."

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 22/07/2023

What AI people worry about: Releasing model weights means AGI comes to kill us all What AI people should worry about: leftpad

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Nick Frichette @frichetten.com · 14/07/2023

My talk from fwd:cloudsec is on YouTube! I talked about my research on various methods that have succeeded in bypassing CloudTrail and I shared a full-bypass for the EventBridge service (now fixed).

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Evading Logging in the Cloud Disrupting and Bypassing AWS CloudTrail - Nick Frichette

Abstract: AWS customers rely on CloudTrail for continuous monitoring and detection of security incidents within their cloud environments. However, what if an...

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Calling libraries as the “original coworking spaces” reinforces how there’s just no way we’d be able to build + fund libraries in modern day society - entirely free centers for learning and community!! - if they didn’t already exist. wapo.st/4470IAr

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/06/2023

Reddit moderators thought they were caretakers of a community and Spez reminded them they are overseers of a content farm for advertising revenue.

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Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen

The removals will happen by “end of week.”

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 30/06/2023

If you pretend to be Googlebot you can still read Twitter without logging in, but otherwise it seems like you can't. The public square requires an account.

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/06/2023

Threads is the bleakest thing I've ever seen, by quite some margin. It's extremely powerful, but I cannot recommend watching it

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/06/2023

I realized I had never demoed the little feature I contributed to #Python 3.11, methods to help introspect string.Template. So I made a thing that interactively prompts you for values to interpolate across a JSON document: gist.github.com/benkehoe/3fd5c2ca04…

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Scott Piper @scottpiper.bsky.social · 22/06/2023

Interesting stats from USAA in their re:Inforce talk on AWS data perimeters: 85% of cross-org calls are to S3, and 70% of those S3 calls are to buckets owned by AWS.

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jess @jess.red · 22/06/2023

the software engineer's path: tired: hard (easy to write, easy to reason about, O(n^2)) wired: hard (easy to write, difficult to reason about, O(n)) inspired: hard (hard to write, easy to reason about, O(n))

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 20/06/2023

The CloudFormation language extensions RFC for Fn::ForEach has been published, a great time to take a look and give feedback on the tracking issue github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-l…

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Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 18/06/2023

Blue sky is not immune to meme accounts. They are popular for a reason! That reason is theft.

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