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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...

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 28/04/2025

🚨 This Wed (12 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com “Experimenting with Foundation Models” w/ instructor and AWS Hero @faye-ellis.bsky.social! She’s bringing practical, cheap ways you can start exploring FMs, LLMs, and AI! You NEED to dive into AI, don't miss this one! 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG87...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 21/04/2025

This Wed on @vbrownbag.com @ 12 PM ET "Scared but Learning: A Survival Guide" @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social is an intl speaker, and a CNCF Ambassador... but she wrote her first line of code only 6 years ago 🤯 🥳 Join us live for fun & prizes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMU...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 18/04/2025

Yooooo! 🤣🌫️🌫️🌫️

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/04/2025

"you shall call his name Oily Josh, for he will save his people from their sins" - Matthew 1:21

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/04/2025

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/04/2025

Last night's @vbrownbag.com recording is UP: "How To Learn Like a Rockstar!" Amanda Ruzza is a DevOps Engineer... and a world famous jazz bassist 🤯 🎸 She shares how she ‘migrated’ traditional music studying techniques into learning Cloud and all things tech related! youtu.be/u1HpR6SaaAA

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 03/04/2025

The crossover meme we needed today 🫠:

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 03/04/2025

The missed connections I'm here for 🤣🤣

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 24/03/2025

*Laughs in schadenfreude* www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 12/03/2025

Y'all @bschaatsbergen.com and I just gave back to back customer talks with the platform teams for (1) largest bank in Japan (2) one of the largest insurer globally and (3) TOYOTA 🤯🥰🥳

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 12/03/2025

Day 5 of the super secret Project Bento 🥰🇯🇵🍱😂; @bschaatsbergen.com and I are preparing to lead a workshop in Tokyo today. We are very excited to visit with our friends at Toyota!

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 10/03/2025

Japanese office lobby security bot!

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 09/03/2025

The @crunchyroll.com app isn't available IN JAPAN?!?!? I'm laying here jetlagged, awake, and I can't watch ANIME IN JAPAN on crunchyroll????

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 06/03/2025

Flying to Tokyo to start the super secret initiative that no one knows about that I'm calling Project Bento 🇯🇵🥰🍱😂!! @bschaatsbergen.com and I will be talking to @hashicorp.com customers, doing user groups talks, hosting an AWS GameDay, and hanging out with AWS Heroes!!!

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/03/2025

Are you studying for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate Exam? Do want the chance to win a FREE Terraform Exam Voucher? 📚 Join me IN ONE HOUR for a webinar to help you prepare 🎁 5 lucky attendees will be randomly selected to win a FREE Terraform Exam Cert voucher! Register: hashi.co/tfcertprep

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 25/02/2025

Snoop never would have written "Where the hoes at" if he had just been raised in Amsterdam:

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 22/02/2025

Next week (Feb 26th 8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com @aaronshunter.com knows a thing or 2 about the AWS AI/ML Certs🤣! In this episode he's going to walk us through how to prepare (study, materials, & practice) to sit and pass the exams! Join us live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Ib...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 20/02/2025

Beep is helping me MC @hashicorp.com HashiTalks 2025! Join us LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qQ...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 19/02/2025

TONIGHT @ 8:30 PM ET on @vbrownbag.com "Private GenAI for the Enterprise" w/ @kymidd.bsky.social ! Kyler is building a private GenAI chatbot for the enterprise. In this episode we talk to her about it! Join us for fun, info & prizes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RGY...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 15/02/2025

Oh no! I left the news on during the inauguration...

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 14/02/2025

I always wonder "what happened?"

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 12/02/2025

Getting ready to sit the Terraform Associate Exam? Want the chance to win a FREE Terraform Exam Certification? Then join me March 4th! 🎁 5 lucky attendees will be randomly selected to win a FREE Exam voucher! 📚 Prep resources 🙇‍♂️ Exam objectives 🙋‍♀️ Q&A Register here: hashi.co/tfcertprep

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 10/02/2025

Love love LOVE @kurzgesagt.org 💕 💕 💕 (Yes I'm a little late changing out my calendars this year 😂😂)

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 07/02/2025

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA (inhale) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Time to hide the ketchup again. (Excellent trolling Time magazine)

Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk. Alluding to the fact that Elmo is the one in charge and Trump is his little bitch.

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