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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 23/09/2026
Cloud Field Day 26 (#CFD26) is LIVE - 1st up @commvault.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JunX...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 22/09/2026
@newsfromgoogle.bsky.social is about 3 years behind the times.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 18/09/2026
Wow Wow WOW! @vbrownbag.com just hit 2 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube! 🤯 Huge thank you to everyone involved: - The guests, the hosts, the community that has come together for the past 13 years and kept this a fun learning platform that everyone can use 🥰🥳🐢🥰🥳 Check us out: youtube.com/@vbrownbag
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 14/09/2026
Brian Okken has put out a practical guide on using TDD effectively in your org. It's short, filled with fantastic advice, and totally worth a read if you are in the space: leantdd.com
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Lean TDD
Lean TDD by Brian Okken is a practical guide to Test Driven Development without the waste, with concrete guidance for solo developers, teams, and AI-assisted workflows.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 10/09/2026
Most side projects don't come with a built-in fanbase of millions 📚🔍🤓 LIVE tonight (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com "Building a Theory Board for the Sarah J. Maas Universe on AWS" w/ Jennifer Magruder Fan project meets real AWS architecture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGQ... #AWS #CommunityBuilder
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 30/08/2026
@ahoyuniverse.bsky.social nails it:
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 25/08/2026
Day 2 of @djangocon.us kicks off with Sarah Boyce "Emails from my Grandad" 🥰
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 18/08/2026
Your codebase has answers. Your AI just can't find them. 🤖 LIVE tomorrow (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com "Context Engineering & Making Your Codebase Queryable" w/ Brian Carpio What context engineering & how to make a codebase queryable for AI agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDoQ...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 11/08/2026
User groups come, user groups go (R.I.P. VTUG 🥲) Tomorrow (noon ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "How to Build a Thriving Tech Community" Manvendra runs AWS Cloud Club JECRC and we're getting into: - Common mistakes - Lessons learned - Practical takeaways Join us LIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RduJ...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 05/08/2026
Cool cool cool. Now do: 1. fire departments 2. stadiums 3. police departments 4. ROADS 5. emergency rooms p.s. fuck you.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 05/08/2026
You mean to tell me these "influencers" did the OpenAI brand trip FOR FREE!?!? OPENAI IS WORTH 852 BILLION DOLLARS If you're going to shill for a company THE PUBLIC HATES at least get paid for it 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 17/07/2026
Anyone got 55 trillion laying around that I can borrow? My AWS bill is due.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 17/07/2026
Question: is bluesky actively hostile to AI learning?
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 15/07/2026
Live in 2 hours! Join us for Q&A, punch & pie.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/07/2026
Guardrails, RAG, and a Bedrock demo built for an exam @faye-ellis.bsky.social says is brutal Join us LIVE Wed on @vbrownbag.com (noon ET) "Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock" + real talk on the AWS AI Dev Pro cert www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKD...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/07/2026
🤣🥰🤣 (to be clear, I adore @matthewbonig.bsky.social)
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 11/07/2026
Join me and Andrew Brown in 1 hour for the kickoff to his Claude Code Camp! We are going to show what we are building, how to do technical documentation of the project, & cover the scope of the build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvS...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 07/07/2026
New @vbrownbag.com episode is UP: "Getting into Local AI (2/3)" with Du'An Lightfoot! "GPU memory math, agent architectures, observability, token economics — the stuff nobody explains until your bill arrives." youtu.be/WSalm-rvG2E
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 23/06/2026
Most AI content is built for developers. What about everyone else? Tomorrow at noon ET on @vbrownbag.com - "AI for Normal People" with AWS Hero @hoegertn.de Thorsten is helping SMBs learn to learn AI in a budget-friendly way. Come along as we learn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ6Y... #AI #AWS
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AI for Normal People
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/06/2026
AWS re:Invent is $1,799 + flight + hotel. What if AWS just... paid for yours? 👀 Join us LIVE in 30 min on @vbrownbag.com: "How to go to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE" with Dale Orders - The grant programs that can cover your re:Invent ticket - Who's eligible & how to apply youtube.com/@vbrownbag
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 20/05/2026
Yelling at LLM Costs TONIGHT 8:30 PM ET Who's actually paying for all this AI? The @vbrownbag.com Gang talks about: 💸 Frontier model pricing 🖥️ Local models & hidden costs 🏢 What this means for enterprise budgets 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_U... @sixfoot.dad @giftedlane.bsky.social
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/05/2026
Getting Started with Local AI with Du'An Lightfoot (1 of 3 part @vbrownbag.com series) is UP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VS1...
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Getting Started with Local AI
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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 21/04/2026
Hear @mistwire.com, Global Developer Relations Manager at @hashicorp.com, chat with me about everything from consulting to tech certifications to corporate espionage (sort of) on the latest @redmonk.com MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/from-... youtube.com/shorts/HKZyS...
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Chris Williams on the Consultant's Access Advantage #developer #softwareengineer
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Trezy @trezy.codes · 04/05/2026
Hey y'all, I'm looking for some work to bridge the gap while I continue working on @cartridge.dev and @happyview.dev. If you have contract work for #atproto projects (planning, code, architecture), I'd be delighted to help. DM me with details. #atproto #OpenToWork #LookingForWork
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 21/01/2026
Have you ever used AI to help build a Terraform environment and it was... underwhelming? Well LOOK NO FURTHER 😆 Today on @vbrownbag.com - Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don't Have To!) with Sam McGeown! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpwj...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 03/09/2025
I bet a million dollars he doesn't know what "kinetic" means
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 19/08/2025
Tomorrow @ noon on @vbrownbag.com: "Cloud Credibility: Marketing Yourself in the AWS Era" with AWS Community Builder Janvi Bhagchandani! In this episode we deploy a personal website using AWS services: S3, CloudFront, and (optionally) Amplify or Lambda! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5R...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/08/2025
Last weeks @vbrownbag.com is UP: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol ! In this episode we got into a bunch of topics: Horror movies, cannibalism, contributing to open source, burnout, how we (sometimes) destroy the things we love😅 youtu.be/h7FGF3BaJ2I
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Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/08/2025
This week (8:30PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol Listen in as we (maybe) talk about: - OSS contributions! - If we shouldn't eat people, why are they so darn tasty? - Wine pairings www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh6...
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Real Python @realpython.com · 30/07/2025
🐍📰 Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews #python
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Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews
In this tutorial, you'll learn about sentiment analysis and how it works in Python. You'll then build your own sentiment analysis classifier with spaCy that can predict whether a movie review is positive or negative.
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Tech Field Day @techfieldday.com · 30/07/2025
The Tech Field Day News Rundown ▶️ buff.ly/RLeD3SL AI's Big Mistakes Allianz Big Data Hack White House AI Action Plan Palo Alto to acquire @CyberArk Commvault to acquire Satori Cyber Mass Layoffs Hit Intel @NetworkingNerd.net @TechFieldDay.com #TFDRundown #AI #CyberSecurity #ITNews #IntelLayoffs
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Mass Layoffs Hit Intel | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 30, 2025
Intel is cutting about 24,000 jobs this year—roughly a quarter of its core workforce—as part of a major restructuring led by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The company is canceling projects in Germany and…
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Stu Miniman @stu.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Replay is available if you missed today's livestream with @mistwire.com ⬇️
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 14/07/2025
This week (7/16 @ 8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "DevOps is a Foreign Language (Or Why There Are No Junior SREs)" w/ @joshleecreates.bsky.social! We chat with him about what DevOps is, why it's so hard to define, and why there really aren't any "junior" SREs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOL8...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 10/07/2025
Join us July 17th for fun with me and @stu.bsky.social !
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vBrownBag @vbrownbag.com · 01/07/2025
Join Jenn Bergstrom & the vBrownBag crew as we dive into the world of Chaos Engineering, exploring how its principles can be applied to machine learning models of all kinds, from classic machine learning to cutting-edge LLMs! Wednesday 7/2 @ 730p CT youtube.com/live/x--Ip4M...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 24/06/2025
Last weeks @vbrownbag.com is UP: "How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with a little help from MCPs)" In this episode @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social, Tech Lead at Block, talks about: vibe coding, MCPs, some pitfalls... and how to do it right 🥳 youtu.be/7E7F_dKO0xE
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How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with a little help from MCPs)
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 24/06/2025
Join us for the weekly fun!
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 11/06/2025
Last week's @vbrownbag.com is UP: "Ctrl+Alt+ROFL: How Stand Up Comedy Helps my Tech Career" w/ Kashaf Salaheen - SA @hashicorp.com by day, stand up comedienne by night! She shares with us lessons learned doing both things and how they bolster each other 🥳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Luw...
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Ctrl+Alt+ROFL: How Stand Up Comedy Helps my Tech Career
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 07/06/2025
How to set up your very own local Skynet at home so Altman/Zuckerberg/Musk/Bezos/Etc... can't scrape your user data for additional, future nefarious purposes:
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Getting Started Running Local LLMs with Ollama
With the recent (but not unexpected) discovery that OpenAI never deleted your chats and now courts are demanding chat histories for upcoming legal cases... I thought that now would be a good time to write an article helping people who want to explore large language models (LLMs) like LLaMA, Mistral, or Gemma without relying on cloud services or APIs 😬.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 03/06/2025
Tomorrow (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: Ctrl+Alt+ROFL: How Stand Up Comedy Helps my Tech Career Kashaf is an SA @hashicorp.com by day... and a stand up comedienne at night! In this ep. she talks about lessons learned & how to lvl up your tech career! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNh5...
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Ctrl+Alt+ROFL - How Stand Up Comedy Helps My Tech Career
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 31/05/2025
IN 2 HOURS the @exampro.bsky.social Networking Fundamentals Bootcamp starts! Join us if you are: 👨🏻‍💻 a new learner who wants to get a good fundamentals 👷🏾 an architect who wants to understand network design better 🥳 enjoy watching us make fun of each other youtube.com/live/6LFr1of...
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Network Fundamentals Bootcamp — Week 1
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 29/05/2025
You might have heard about that cool new @hashicorp.com Terraform Quest that we built with the AWS GameDay team. Experience that Quest live with us today @ 11 AM PT on the AWS On Air channel on twitch.tv/awsonair!
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Twitch is the world
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 28/05/2025
In 1 HOUR on @vbrownbag.com: "Building a Well-Architected Review Crew with GenAI" with @wellarchitectedadvocate.com We will unpack how GenAI-powered AWS experts can transform your cloud strategy, & dive into real-world ways to use multi-agent workflows! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqv...
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Building a Well-Architected Review Crew with GenAI - with Alex Kearns
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vBrownBag @vbrownbag.com · 27/05/2025
Join us & @wellarchitectedadvocate.com as he reveals how GenAI-powered AWS experts can supercharge your cloud strategy! Get actionable tips on the Well-Architected Framework & unlock real-world insights for your team. #AWS #GenAI #CloudComputing Wed May 28 @ 3pm CDT www.youtube.com/live/HDqvAQG...
Join us & @wellarchitectedadvocate.com as he reveals how GenAI-powered AWS experts can supercharge your cloud strategy! Get actionable tips on the Well-Architected Framework & unlock real-world insights for your team. #AWS #GenAI #CloudComputing

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https://www.youtube.com/live/HDqvAQGmifY
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 26/05/2025
It's crazy the number of ppl I know who are on Ozempic but tell everyone the results are from "diet & exercise"
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a display of ties and says " why you lying "
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a display of ties and says " why you lying "
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 20/05/2025
The 1st rule of Condescension Club is kinda complex, and I don't think you'd understand even if I explained it to you.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 16/05/2025
This week's @vbrownbag.com is UP: "From Ops to Dev: Understanding the Evolving Developer Landscape" with Andrew Fawcett! Learn how to level up your dev game AND get some tips to use AI (& Cursor) while you are here 😂🥰🥳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfpn...
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From Ops to Dev: Understanding the Evolving Developer Landscape
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/05/2025
This week on @vbrownbag.com: "From Ops to Dev: The Evolving Developer Landscape" w/ Andrew Fawcett If you've been in a trad Ops role, knowing "how devs do" is essential knowledge. In this talk, Andrew discusses evolving your career & using AI the RIGHT way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a62...
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From Ops to Dev: The Evolving Developer Landscape
YouTube video by vBrownBag
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 07/05/2025
Today on @vbrownbag.com: We go deep into the security of the software supply chain with AWS Hero @miketheman.com!
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