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William Collins

@macroengineered.bsky.social
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Director of Tech Evangelism @Itential • AWS Community Builder • LinkedIn Learning Instructor • Host of The Cloud Gambit Pod • Hockey 🏒 when I'm not smashing that mechanical keyboard

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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SO GOOD!
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
👋 Hello Dario! I just can't help myself 😂
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
💡 Will @anthropic.com #claude destroy humanity by the end of the decade? #ai #doomsday #technology
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Really digging this band right now 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Y3...
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Jump, Little Children - Mexico - 12/18/2019 - Paste Studio ATL - Atlanta, GA
YouTube video by Paste Magazine
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wiring the same MCP servers into Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot separately - then doing it again every time something changes. Gridctl gives you one gateway config and projects skills/context to each client natively. Define once, stop babysitting N client configs.
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I couldn't think of a better question 😅 Way to slice right through to the core! (thanks for the good question BTW)
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My #OpenSoure passion project is currently on #DevHunt tied for first place! If you can find it in your "use AI in a practical way for real things" caffeine fueled heart, give me a vote 😉 Winning this is, of course, a motivation to keep hacking away in the #OSS way ⚡️ devhunt.org/tool/gridctl
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gridctl - One YAML file. One endpoint. Every MCP server plus the skills and agents you author alongside them
One YAML file. One endpoint. Every MCP server plus the skills and agents you author alongside them
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
💡 Fun times supporting the new #MCP rev without breaking the old one! wcollins.io/posts/2026/m...
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Running Handshake and Stateless MCP in the Same Gateway
On July 28th, the MCP maintainers shipped the 2026-07-28 revision. No more initialize. No more initialized. No more Mcp-Session-Id. David Soria Parra called it “MCP’s most important release since remo...
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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 26/07/2026
Submitted to HN: When You Build the Wrong Thing remotesynthesis.com/posts/when-you-… Article URL: remotesynthesis.com/posts/when-you-… Comments URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490539… Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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When You Build the Wrong Thing | Remote Synthesis
AI makes it almost too simple to release stuff, which can, as in my case, lead to not enough preparation.
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hey @mia-berger.bsky.social ! Nice to see you on BlueSky.
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Don't know if I love or hate this 🤔 github.blog/changelog/20...
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Repository admins can archive pull requests - GitHub Changelog
Repository admins can now archive pull requests to remove them from public view without permanently deleting them. When a pull request is archived, it is closed and locked. Pull requests…
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
+1 on this
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
wcollins.io/posts/2026/a...
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AI Through IaC, Not Instead of It
The discourse on platform engineering Twitter and Reddit has been pretty consistent for months now: Terraform is dead, HCL is dead, the entire Infrastructure as Code stack is about to get vaporized by...
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
💡 Great chat with @hyeomans.bsky.social on separating hype from reality in the current #AI landscape Stream here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the... #Podcast #Tech @esharp.net
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/02/2026
I'm too legit to :q!
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
💥 This episode was a genuine pleasure to record!
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I've been slacking on promoting content on Bluesky 🤔thanks for sharing!
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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 03/02/2026
Another banger from @macroengineered.bsky.social and @esharp.net with @azimman.bsky.social . Topics: - informal leadership - bringing true user experience into the SDLC - the internal -> OSS -> commercial software pipeline - juggling saw blades Listen here: packetpushers.net/podcasts/the...
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TCG067: Progressive Delivery: Shipping Software is Just the Beginning with Adam Zimman | Packet Pushers
We dive into the evolution of software delivery from waterfall to Agile to DevOps, and how progressive delivery represents the next step forward. Guest Adam Zimman breaks down the Four A’s Framework (...
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Answer to that is a few months out 😅
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🥷 Me vs #MCP ROUND 1 #ai #aivideos #fun #machinelearning #thosemoves #tech #anthropic
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🪚 Right tool, right job! #automation #networkautomation #netdevops #infrastructureascode #cloudcomputing #tech #podcast
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🎵 Visiting Zaharakos in Columbus, IN! Super cool vibes, and life changing #icecream 👀 #travelfood #music #1920s #History
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Myself and Dario Amodei. Topic = The Forbidden Recipes: Cooking Meals That Confuse Smart Fridges
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🛰️ Running @fusionauth.io in space! @voidmain.bsky.social talks through the value of #hybrid flexibility for today's tech stack 👉 @esharp.net @mooreds.com #developer #ux #startup #spacetech #tech #podcast
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🔥 GET IT!
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
💡 Why does @massdriver.cloud exist? Cory O'Daniel lays it out 👉 @esharp.net #cloudcomputing #startup #infrastructureascode #technology #podcast
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I came to the same conclusion! 👏 Same problem solving, similar outcomes! One in the physical world, one in the virtual 💪
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
📍 #Prague is a breathtakingly beautiful city! Team Itential explored, hustled, collaborated, and engaged in incredible conversations with the #Community - What's next? #AustinTx in November 💪 #workingintech #traveling #events #networkengineer #networkops #startup
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I have one that loves school and another that runs when "school" is mentioned 😂
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🤣
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Backwards compatibility is the devil. That is all.
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Exactly! Love this! Explore, find valuable things, and pass them on 👍👍
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🛠️ Let's remove "I can't" from our vocabulary! #homeimprovement #woodworking #techthemyoung #learning #tech #letsgo
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🛠️ Right tool, right job! #automation #orchestration #devops #ansible #opentofu #terraform
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Work hard, pizza hard 🤷‍♂️
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
You're killing me.
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🤖 #Grok is stuck in a loop! Why is this happening? I do my best to explain. #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #machinelearning
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🐼 WFH Panda! #panda #wfh #workfromhome #tech #fun
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🏝️ How to not work on #vacation 💥 #travel #fun #utv #outdoors #hockey #amusementpark
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🏝️ How to not work on #vacations 💥 #fun #travel #hockey #amusementpark #outdoors #utv
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
👋 We are joining The Packet Pushers! #artificialintelligence #cloudcomputing #tech #podcast
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
He gets it! 😎🤣
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@donmackinnon.dev
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🔧 Let's get optimized - 90% smaller container images can't hurt! ⚡️ #containers #cloudcomputing #startup #technology
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Got a few in the hopper! Some technical difficulties 😴
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
@esharp.net @donmackinnon.dev
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the shout @mooreds.com - We would love to have you come on thecloudgambit.com 💥 DM if you are interested!
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The Cloud Gambit
The Cloud Gambit Podcast unravels the state of cloud computing, markets, strategy, and emerging trends. Join William Collins and Eyvonne Sharp for valuable conversations with industry mavens that educ...
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚀 @donmackinnon.dev joins the pod to talk #search! @esharp.net #ArtificialIntelligence #Startup #Tech #Podcast 👉 Stream Now: www.thecloudgambit.com
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William Collins @macroengineered.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🧊 Nexus 51.2T Direct-to-Chip Cooling #CiscoLive #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DataCenter
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