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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 · 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 · 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 · 16/07/2026

That's President Grandpa Brainworms mister!

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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 · 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 · 21/01/2026

Oh hi there Margaritaville! 🍹

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 21/01/2026

Dude you'd def love Monktoberfest!!!

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 21/01/2026

Hi Paul! I'm mostly on LinkedIn now🫠

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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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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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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 · 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 · 11/06/2025

Talk to the hand ❌ Talk to the ass ✅

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