Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 27/01/2025I wish I could document all my uncaught exceptions instead of fixing them 060
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 27/01/2025Between this and not always returning valid XML from the API, feels like S3 sometimes just documents their bugs and moves on 1120
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/01/2025I am a pseudo person myself, but "su" can be ess you, so it seems like a defensible position 130
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/01/2025To be honest I think @adamhjk.me and www.systeminit.com would probably handle this in a reasonable way 120
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/01/2025And let us not speak of the people who pronounce "numpy" to rhyme with "bumpy" 261
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/01/2025If you want people to pronounce it that way, you need a logo of a Python dressed as a detective. Py, PI 🕵️ 250
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/01/2025I'll say it: pizza orders have a lifecycle not fully under the control of the order creator, and are a bad match for IaC. Your Domino's Rewards account would probably be better 110
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 23/01/2025I am a lot closer to the usual tapings now, I'm hoping to snag a seat to one at some point 110
Reposted by Ben KehoeYan Cui @theburningmonk.com · 22/01/2025This 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... 3344
Reposted by Ben KehoeKristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I 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. 47214
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 22/01/2025The only (unique) good thing about Chime, but it's a really good one. 010
Reposted by Ben KehoeMolly White @molly.wiki · 06/11/2023all this time i thought the lasers were going in the other direction 522976622
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 29/10/2023I'm not sure anything conjures up a feeling of exhaustion in me thew way the phrase "a bunch of Discords" does 010
Reposted by Ben KehoeDavid Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 13/09/2023As 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. 528453
Reposted by Ben KehoeEl Gato Astronomico @astrocat.bsky.social · 09/09/2023The rich are engineering an existence only for themselves and largely don't really realize it I think 515915
Reposted by Ben KehoeStacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2023Yep. 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. 231655712
Reposted by Ben KehoeLuc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 08/09/2023Oooohhh these are some great additions to AWS Step Functions: - Custom error messages in fail states - JitterStrategy for retries (!) - MaxDelaySeconds for retriesaws.amazon.comAWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling 091
Reposted by Ben KehoeAllan @allanfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2023Not ready to implement Zero Trust, so we’ve decided on a security posture based on “Two Truths and a Lie” 26416
Reposted by Ben KehoeKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/09/2023it'd be cool to nationalize basically everything Musk owns 451406245
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 07/09/2023Some 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! 270
Reposted by Ben KehoeSoren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 21/08/2023When 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. 115636
Reposted by Ben KehoeKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2023I 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 14750882006
Reposted by Ben KehoeMicah @rincewind.run · 15/08/2023as 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" 1213720
Reposted by Ben KehoeAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/08/2023Even 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. 201771712
Reposted by Ben KehoeMike @mike.raccoon.bike · 13/08/2023Literally every bus driver on the planet does more for green transport every day than musk has done in his life 3494
Reposted by Ben KehoeDan Hon @danhon.com · 09/08/2023This 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 059
Reposted by Ben KehoeSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/08/2023Don't worry physicists, programmers don't know how to do reproducible builds or document them either. 411821
Reposted by Ben KehoeAnil Dash @anildash.com · 02/08/2023very 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" 36918
Reposted by Ben KehoeTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/07/2023meanwhile let's see what the most powerful man on the planet has to say about this issue 934986
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 29/07/2023At this point, I think it's the receiver's responsibility to manage notification settings 010
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 28/07/2023kinda, and they work reasonably well for anyone doing it a lot, but it's a lot of overhead for people who might do it occasionally 000
Reposted by Ben Kehoee.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 27/07/2023Good morning, Tesla is a fraud www.reuters.com/investigates/specia… 612255
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 27/07/2023Not least because the pandemic removed the ability to, like, hand stuff to people at work 000
Ben Kehoe @ben.kehoe.io · 27/07/2023It'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 240
Reposted by Ben Kehoeandy™ @andylevy.net · 25/07/2023the 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 252661923
Reposted by Ben KehoeEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/07/2023I really hope Elon Musk tries fintech. Regulators love guys like this. They adore guys who live on the bleeding edge of truth 913618
Reposted by Ben KehoeAlan Kyle @alank.bsky.social · 24/07/2023twitter sign change isn’t going well. Building management called cops 522454558
Reposted by Ben KehoeGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/07/2023Again, 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]." 624258
