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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 04/12/2025

I’m no hardware engineer but watching the really nerdy hardware talks at re:Invent are really fun.

Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 03/12/2025

I’ve been radio silent on attending re:Invent this year, I was scheming the surprise some friends from the hospital. Mission accomplished last night at the Wizard of Oz at the Sphere. (Amazing.) Best swag is the AWS BuilderCards deck to go with the @jeffbarr.bsky.social card he gave me last year. 😀

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 28/11/2025

Friendsgiving with friends of over 30 years. One is a high school English teacher. Of course AI in homework writing came up. Her: “You can tell. You get to know their voice on low stakes writing. Then they suddenly know how to use a semicolon and the word “moreover”, no freaking way.” 🤣

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 26/11/2025

This CVS can’t be stopped. Methinks the pharmacist is an OSU grad.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 26/11/2025

The whole Columbus X’s out any “M”’s before the Ohio St v Michigan game is serious business.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 23/11/2025

Stayed up to watch the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Sometimes with late races I’ll record them but have to avoid the internet to not see who won. Looks like that somehow worked in reverse this time. 😂 #F1

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 23/11/2025

It’s 8:42pm on a Saturday night and I’m watching a documentary on YouTube about Python. Let it never be said that I don’t know how to party any more. youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0

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The Story of Python and how it took over the world | Python: The Documentary

YouTube video by CultRepo

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 21/11/2025

It is funny, I am sitting here building AWS Lambda functions in Rust using Claude Code and I feel like I am really programming again. I think after all these years I was getting bored with directly cutting code, since the vast majority of it were things I had written before.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 18/11/2025

Who needed the internet anyhow. RIP CloudFlare. #HugOps

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 02/11/2025

So the Bengals challenged a non scoring play that resulted in a Bears TD. Like, they didn’t score, and OUR challenge got them a TD. This is the most Bengals thing I have ever seen. 40+ years of fandom and they continue to surprise.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 28/10/2025

This is the greatest baseball game I have ever seen. #WorldSeries

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 09/10/2025

My lava lamp is giving off some real preserved Xenomorph energy here today.

Lava lamp where the wax looks like a preserved xenomorph from Alien.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 06/10/2025

My son could care less about baseball but he loves himself a map. I told him to look up the MLB blackout region map and he’s enthralled. “What did Iowa do to someone?”

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 25/09/2025

The Siri ui with the glow around the edge of the phone is delightful. The service itself… notsomuch.

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David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 10/09/2025

I am curious to see what memory bugs remain practical on iOS with MIE and typed allocators. The fact that memory tags are enforced even in kernel access to userspace memory is going to make use-after-free and buffer overflows extremely hard. security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

security.apple.com

Blog - Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our adv...

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 14/06/2025

on type safety

Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 07/09/2025

As a lifelong Bengals fan our best player continues to be the Cleveland Browns.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 06/09/2025

A dream would be take a single lap around Monza in a F1 car. I would be screaming the entire way around.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 05/09/2025

I finally took the mechanical keyboard plunge and I feel equal parts amazing and insufferable at the same time.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 30/08/2025

Huge game in Columbus today. The flyover F-16s just screamed over my house, two minutes later we see them on tv over the Shoe.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 29/08/2025

Was behind a 1990s Toyota Celica with historical plates on it at a light. If you need me I’ll be over there in the corner crying.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 22/08/2025

I swear I’ve been fighting the same OpenSSL version mismatch collision for the last 30 freaking years.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 20/08/2025

Is this like the audio book "reading" equivalent of programming? Kiro is humming along while I focus on the more important task right now: lunch.

Screenshot of Kiro writing an AWS Lambda function.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 17/08/2025

Left Skyline coney with sword: New chicken chili. Right Skyline coney: Classic regular chili. Classic is still the best, but chicken was solid.

Two Skyline Chili coneys. Left one is chicken and right one is classic chili. The chicken one has a plastic sword in it.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 11/08/2025

Man talk about a trip down memory lane here. It is crazy how those boot screens are still stored somewhere in the old gray matter, they were instantly recognizable.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 27/07/2025

I love the course they had for the Paris final of the Tour de France. Also love that Wout won the stage. #TourDeFrance

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 25/07/2025

Dark room. Dark mode. Prince of Darkness playing. (RIP Ozzy) Fighting with Linux. If you transported me here from 30 years ago he would nod approvingly.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 21/07/2025

I can stop watching long form watch restoration videos whenever I want. Really. I can. youtu.be/eUcXlSjy_dY?...

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My Most Satisfying Watch Restoration - Vintage Eberhard & Co Chronograph from 1943

YouTube video by Red Dead Restoration

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 19/07/2025

I’ve gone totally agentic. Not only do I have kiro.dev cranking away at porting an old HPC Perl app to modern AWS serverless, I also promoted my son to go out and pick up burritos.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 18/07/2025

I'm actually kind of impressed with Kiro. The requirements + design + code is an old school vibe, which for someone that is old is fun. It even got itself all twisted around trying to get dependencies and mocks setup for unit testing that I told it to give up. (So it even acts like a real dev!)

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 18/07/2025

The Kiro thinking icon is adorable. The look on my face was not so adorable when I tried (and failed miserably) to login with Amazon Q Developer Pro.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 17/07/2025

One of the best things about my job is that we have dogs (with their own employee badges!) that hang out in the main hospital and you can stop and scratch their ears and call them the goodest dog ever.

Front of a trading card of a dog at Nationwide Children's Hospital named Kota.

Back of a trading card of a dog at Nationwide Children's Hospital named Kota.

A therapy dog named Kota at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 16/07/2025

I’m not saying I got beat in the work 2025 Cloud Cup video game tournament. I’m saying I got crushed, destroyed, killed. I never stood a chance against the younger guys.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 05/07/2025

Watching Stage 1 of the Tour de France and waiting for the F1 British Grand Prix qualifying in 90 minutes. I’ve never felt more European.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 22/06/2025

I’m not sure if the fire extinguisher is for safety, window dressing or comes as part of a set.

Fire extinguisher in a fireworks display at the store.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 14/06/2025

This is a fun NBA Finals. At the same time I just spent ten minutes going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about the Seattle SuperSonics. Some billionaire needs to bring that team back.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 13/06/2025

I have a vision that @justin-stanley.com is lying face down on an airport baggage claim carousel as it slows spins around and around. I hope it isn't true, but the visual is pretty funny.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 11/06/2025

Business idea for someone. Replace all these crap conference center chairs.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 09/06/2025

At least it is a direct flight.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 23/05/2025

I just realized I left a process going that was doing a lot of Amazon Q yesterday. Can’t get at it to check the results right now, but suspect either: 1. Some silly error popped up 2. I just invented Skynet.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 23/05/2025

Staying up late troubleshooting a SGE HPC that lost its mind is no fun, but it did remind me of the olden days of futzing with Linux until the early hours.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 22/05/2025

The lower left of the screen is reflecting my watch but it looks like a ghost in the transfer. Joke is on me, there actually was a ghost in the migration. Skunky extension caused a reboot loop. 👻

Apple Migration Assistant progress screen.

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 17/05/2025

The safety equipment on an F1 car is among the most impressive engineering I have ever seen. Yuki popped out and walked away from a car that essentially went through a washing machine. #F1

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 14/05/2025

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 10/05/2025

Credit where credit is due. The Ohio BMW website works fantastically. Yubi key support to login. Apple Pay support to pay. All around easy to use. Two thumbs will use again. Specifically next year when my car registration is due. 😀

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Grant Lammi @grant.lammi.com · 04/05/2025

Formula E racing, hear me out. They add a mandatory charging pit stop with the charging speed of a normal, electric road car. During the stop, the drivers have to shop in a pop up 7-11, Supermarket Sweep-style. Think of the sponsorship options!

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