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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 24/08/2025

It’s 7am on a Sunday, and somebody just drove through our rather quiet neighborhood blasting clown car music. I’m both mad and amused.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 29/07/2025

On vacation, sitting in a piano bar with my wife. Nearly every song the pianist is playing is renditions of songs we know and enjoy. Then it dawns on me… I’m now the target demographic for what I used to call “old people vacations”.

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Ken Win @kenwin0x539.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Haven't written anything in awhile or done much outside of work. But wanted to do a small sample of the new #cdk blueprint property injection. As always there is sample code in a repo that goes with it. kennethwinner.com/2025/05/24/c...

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Using AWS CDK Blueprint Property Injection

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 05/05/2025

Ever notice how "That's a good question" rarely indicates a truly good question. I wish we would accept complete silence for a few moments when waiting for an answer to a question.

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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 03/04/2025

#30DayChartChallenge: Slopes 📊 Continuing to visualize my moods, this time as a rollercoaster track. Each row in the track is a year, and the dips and valleys represent shifts in mood across each day.

A minimal line chart that has been designed to look like a rollercoaster. There are 5 rows, with the first four going the full width of the screen and the last one only a quarter of the width. The track is brown, and there are A-frame supports holding up the track along its entire length. At the very end of the track is a yellow cart getting ready to take off into the air as it comes over a peak.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 01/04/2025

it's yesterday, be me: "Wow, on-call has been easy. No pages or nothing. Seems like something is wrong, it's TOO quiet!" today: Critical downstream provider goes down.

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Ken Win @kenwin0x539.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Any CDK family out here? I'm using the beta cross-region references. I've got some exports I want to remove but it enforces strong references (this is fine). I tried to find a way to inject my exports to the custom resource but the provider is private and aspects can't seem to visit the node.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 26/01/2025

Watching Mufasa, my wife and I were like “dang, whoever wrote this was trying real hard to emulate Lin-Manuel Miranda”… then I actually checked the credits for the movie and everything made sense. Holy moly was that a poorly executed movie though.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 24/01/2025

The other thing I have had good luck with (especially with rust) is asking it to take modules that have evolved naturally over time with solid test suites around them, and refactor into more idiomatic and DRY'd up code.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 24/01/2025

"Ah yes, those utility poles are clearly very Polish," i mumbled to myself late last night. It's wild how quickly you can build up the most useless knowledge about countries by playing geoguessr.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 15/01/2025

Feeling so "memory" safe right now!

Stack trace reads:

internal error: entered unreachable code
Backtrace:
0: std::backtrace_rs::backtrace::libunwind::trace

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 15/01/2025

Was playing with an intentionally under-trained model... and I think it circled back into self-aware.

Image of LLM interaction.

Prompt: My startup idea is
Output: a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 14/01/2025

I just sql injected myself with a csv -> json -> sql generator -> string parser. Sanitize them inputs folks.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 14/01/2025

if my terminal history ever goes away i'm retiring.

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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 05/01/2025

Happy gotcha day to Landra! We adopted her 5 years ago from Lucky Dog Rescue and it’s been one of the best life choices @jaredshort.com & I have ever made. Forever glad she still likes to cuddle with me on the couch so many years later.

A side by side photo of Landra the black lab cuddling on a couch in 2020 and in 2025. She is smaller in the 2020 photo, but still has the same eyes and posture.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 03/01/2025

fine. I'll use the XLR on my mic and do things right. I've only been remote working for 15 years, practically an intern.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 02/01/2025

I'm not saying I'm an AWS expert… but I am saying I finally tracked down the random AWS account charging me small amounts every month and closed it.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 02/01/2025

just got a marketing email for a "waterproof rain jacket"...

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 29/12/2024

Documentation from a provider in the healthcare sector reads “production environment is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the exception of Sundays…” and honestly I can’t really sum up the space much better than that.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 23/12/2024

Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...

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Re:Explaining DSQL

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 18/12/2024

One of the less talked-about aspects of serverless is the code rot that can occur strictly based on the fact that the services can happily run for literal years unattended. Not even talking just dependency updates, I just mean organizationally you can just lose tribal knowledge entirely around it.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 16/12/2024

This is one of my favorite talks of #reinvent 2024, certainly one of my favorite styles of talks where it's the theory and algorithms behind distributed and scaled systems. Another one from @marcbrooker.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvHd...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Try again: The tools and techniques behind resilient systems (ARC403)

YouTube video by AWS Events

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 13/12/2024

Wrote my own little authoritative game server that uses NodeJS and WebRTC for UDP transport. Works great, 2ms per frame with some pretty intensive simulations. Was looking at porting to Unity for better network features... turns out NOPE. 100x harder to understand and so much point and click.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 12/12/2024

The world relies on the AWS networking, and thank goodness we don't have to know how it works or care. A fun #reinvent talk anyways! Still no explanation for why NAT gateways costs more than American health insurance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=COo3...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Planet-scale networking: How AWS powers the world’s largest networks (NET403)

YouTube video by AWS Events

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 11/12/2024

Here is an easy to navigate listing of the #reinvent YouTube videos, built by Chris Williams over at AWS. He added a feature to filter based on session level at my request, because I always find 300 / 400 level to be more helpful! reinvent2024.cwilliams.io

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 09/12/2024

Now that re:Invent is over, I finally get to attend all the re:Invent sessions I had zero time to get to during the actual event! Starting with @marcbrooker.bsky.social's deep dive into DSQL architecture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGm...

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - Deep dive into Amazon Aurora DSQL and its architecture (DAT427-NEW)

YouTube video by AWS Events

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 06/12/2024

I’m sad to announce that after it’s all over they made the #reinvent vomit comet flooring some totally boring static functional floor.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 06/12/2024

AWS clearly has superior users as proven by the fact that, at re:play, people recording in landscape mode outnumber those recording in portrait.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 05/12/2024

Werner’s keynote is the AWS edition of one of the favorite reading pieces we have at Stedi. johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/re...

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Reality has a surprising amount of detail

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My second blog post on Aurora DSQL, with a deep dive on how reads work: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

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DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute - Marc's Blog

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 04/12/2024

20 years later, 1.5 million words from the man himself @jeffbarr.bsky.social … Happy 20th Birthday to the AWS blog. #reinvent

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 03/12/2024

Amazon Aurora DSQL is the real deal. It’s the thing you’ve wanted. #reinvent

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 02/12/2024

Thanks Apple. I totally wasn’t aware how far away that session was until just now.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 02/12/2024

It’s been 0 days since I caused a re:Invent incident by not taking my laptop to a workshop.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 02/12/2024

I asked for vegas odds on GenAI being mentioned in the #reinvent keynotes and the bookmaker laughed in my face.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 27/11/2024

when in doubt, restart rust analyzer

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Jeff Barr @jeffbarr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Check out the very cool #AWS Region Comparison tool at region-comparison.aws.com . Select two regions and you will see which services, APIs, EC2 instance types, and DB engines differ with respect to availability. Source is available; link at bottom!

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AWS What's New Skeetbot @aws-skeetbot.lastweekinaws.com · 25/11/2024

Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from…

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 26/11/2024

2 days ago I started writing a little browser based game. This evening I decided the experience with web sockets (even at 30hz plus) was just poopoo and went down the rabbit hole of WebRTC to get UDP on a browser. Bad news is my brain hurts, good news is I have bi-directional @ 60hz. It's rad.

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 22/11/2024

Turns out setting up your code to be able to time travel is really nice for testing stuff that depends on time. Tests that took seconds or more and were still flakey now take milliseconds and are rock solid. Who knew! TLDR; my dumb db time travels now.

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Nick Triantafillou @nickt.com.au · 21/11/2024

re:Invent is approaching.. and that means one thing.. SWAG! If it's your first time or just need a refresher, please check out my updated re:Invent Swag guide #aws #awscommunity dev.to/aws-builders...

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re:Invent Swag guide

In !2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 I attended (or didn't) the largest cloud conference in the...

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Jared Short @jaredshort.com · 21/11/2024

Careful now, making chatbots hawk products will humanize them.

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