Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Ryan McGovern @tekgadgt.dev · 26/08/2026I'm gonna be out at Resonate757 this weekend. @paulchinjr.bsky.social will be there as well! I'll be doing what I like to call a deactivation, come edit some HTML with me. You can even take your site with you when you leave! Link in the second post. 221
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026'member when we only had 5 phone numbers we could designate to call without spending minutes. 000
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 14/05/2025WTF is startyparty.dev? I get asked a lot what this project is. It's a labor of love developed over many years that aggregates top-tier articles, news, social, podcasts, videos, games, resources, livesteams & more into a unified launcher-style app. Full Guide: marko.tech/journal/wtf-...marko.techWTF is Startyparty?I get asked a lot what this project is. It's a labor of love developed over many years that aggregates top-tier articles, news, social media, podcasts, videos, games, resources, livesteams and more in... 5462246
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A new age of shareware is here. I'm talking about weird software, everything from flying toaster screensavers to malware hiding inside BonziBuddy distractions. I'm excited. 100
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If I just want JSON with comments, am I just a YAML denier? 010
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I got irrationally excited about saving a long list of numbers. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am...aws.amazon.comAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale | Amazon Web ServicesDynamoDB now supports native vector search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recall. It is designed for any scale, even trillions of vectors and requires zero infrastructure management. 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026not enough people know about cachemonet.comcachemonet.comcachemonet.comcachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that occur between two randomly generated arrays. 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026@stevekrouse.com the chatgpt valtown plugin is my favorite way to vibe code right now. Check out my fluid sim experiment and retro guest book thingee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Pt...youtube.comvibe coding with val town and chatgptYouTube video by Paul Chin Jr. 011
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I was among the first 50 worldwide to complete a weekend build challenge and AWS sent me this jacket. I made a serverless Nicolas Cage news aggregator with Bedrock/Nova-lite. You can read about it here: builder.aws.com/content/3GKT... #aws #serverless #awscommunitybuilder 001
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.David Behroozi @rootothez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026How I block unwanted traffic from reaching my serverless API with CloudFront. speedrun.nobackspacecrew.com/blog/2026/07...speedrun.nobackspacecrew.comBlocking Requests with Lambda Function URLs - SpeedrunBlocking unwanted Lambda traffic 021
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Praise Cage! Fulfill the fantasy of being a post cold war arms dealer with this Lord of War terminal idle game. Requires tmux and is a ton of fun to watch number go up! Grab the repo at tangled tangled.org/paulchinjr.b... 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Praise Cage! How does the power of Nicolas Cage drive me to become a better computer scientist? Watch this replay from AWS Midwest Community Day and find out. youtu.be/dj0FkRSK0dQ?...youtu.be 020
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Last night's NorfolkJS was incredible! Sebastian showed off a mind blowing ascii 2.5D engine he wrote. Our youngest presenter at 14! If you have suggestions for topics or workshops you want, send me a DM. 021
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Monirah 🌞 @monirah.io · 26/06/2026I’m glad I was able to attend AWS Community Day Midwest. Learned about Lambda (including the open-source Lambda Power Tuning), AI agents, telling your story, and praising Nicholas Cage. (Shout out to #100Devs and #CYC26, which were both mentioned in some sessions!) 3111
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The new Lambda MicroVMs are the kind of compute I've been abusing inside GitHub actions, isolated kernels executing user land code in a sandbox. 010
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I'm a specialist in the final mile of automation. What is that you say? I can confidently copy paste environment variables into a web console. 130
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Instead of giving agents Sisyphean loops, try gentle parenting. "We don't eat YAML, buddy. Let's talk about what happened." 010
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 02/06/2026THE ONLY DATA CENTERS WE NEED TO BUILD ARE LIBRARIES!!! SHIRT AVALABLE AT dashare.zone ALONG WITH TANK TOP'S, HOODYS ETC - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN 01594525
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Today's the day! www.sls.guru/events/webin... I'm kicking it off with a serverless ETL pipeline story, and Nic Cage, and hosting Wheel of Fortune, and a panel on AI security. Don't miss it!sls.guruSLS.DAY 2026One full day of peace & webinars covering all kinds of cloud, business systems, and AI topics! So many presentations, there will be something for everyone! ✌️ | "Data Gone in 60 Seconds" with Paul Chi... 020
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Catch my next talk at @sceniccitysummit.com , thanks to sls.guru for supporting true community conferences and not just trade shows. This year, I'm focused on re-discovering fundamentals of software development. Wherever that road takes me, I hope you can join me. #praisecagesls.guruCloud & AI Engineering | End to End Software DeliveryWe make Cloud & AI Engineering easy. 200+ Cloud & AI experts. $5m+ in cloud savings for our clients in 2025. 100+ successful projects. Let's build the future. 030
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I'm still trying to get my head around megamerges, will have to read this a couple more times. 031
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.natemoore on elm street 👻 @natemoo.re · 20/04/2026leaked software industry training manual (2026) 622130389
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Lara (NOT TRUMP) @endlesswinter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong. 660182045350
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social @accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Paul Chin Jr. (a Senior Serverless Developer at Serverless Guru) has left X (1.055 followers) Bluesky: @paulchinjr.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.BAChapin @bachapin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026A huge thank you to all the speakers at #CodeStock2026! You were all awesome and gave great seasons. @guy.dev @reverentgeek.com @freestylecoder.bsky.social @paulchinjr.bsky.social @housecor.com @qimata.bsky.social @thesoftwarementor.com 131
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I should do an ethnography on the "manager stroll", when you see a group of 2 or 3 people clearly walking and talking about the business you're standing in. Like talking about the reason the cups are stacked in a particular way. 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If anyone's afraid of missing on the AI hype. I'm giving 3 conference talks this year, and none of them are on AI, or even mention AI. We're doing alright just knowing stuff. Check me out this week at Codestock. www.codestock.orgcodestock.orgCodeStock 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026i got trapped by the ai today, i stretched a bit further than i understood and trusted it too much. it still feels like programming. 010
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026🎵Old MacDonald had a NULL, [object object] [object object] [object object]🎵 000
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Stir Trek @stirtrek.com · 01/04/2026🎙️ @paulchinjr.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Better the Devil you NoSQL - A Battle of Paradigms" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Paul at Stir Trek this year! 012
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026When I finished school, the fastest way to learn how to launder money was going into finance. Anti-money laundering training told me exactly how it was done and what to look out for. Now, the fastest way for me to learn how to make trojans and spyware is developing agents. 010
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.CodeTV @codetv.dev · 02/01/2026In the Web Dev Challenge season 2 finale, the dev teams raced to build charming apps intended to connect people. Featuring @zeu.dev, @crutchcorn.dev, @tekgadgt.dev, Austin, @codingshaman.bsky.social, and Derek. Watch the full episode now: codetv.dev/series/web-d...codetv.devBuild an App People Want to Play With | Web Dev Challenge Season 2Charming apps with human connection. 0126
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Ryan McGovern @tekgadgt.dev · 07/03/2026Thank you for so quickly trying out cssdaily.dev @cassidoo.co !!! youtu.be/3Uct3cQ77Xoyoutu.beSpeedrunning CSS on CSS DailyYouTube video by Cassidy Williams 3133
Reposted by Paul Chin Jr.Ryan McGovern @tekgadgt.dev · 07/03/2026Watched March MadCSS and thought "what if we could do this every day?" So I built it. In a day. cssdaily.dev — a daily CSS challenge. Write CSS to match a target, get pixel-diffed in real-time. New challenge every morning. Scoring adapted from @wesbos.com and @tolin.ski's open-source SynHax.cssdaily.devCSS Daily - A Daily CSS ChallengeA daily CSS challenge - like Wordle, but for CSS! 96511
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026renting a vm to lobster 24/7, so that you can hit a web api, so it can write nextjs code, that runs on a neighboring rack. the future is now. 010
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Never thought commit messages would feel retro. 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Do any of you have a real world take on the determinism of embedding models? Do they seem deterministic enough? Or do you not count on that? 010
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026tw: jump scare. when was the last time you updated your gravatar? 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I don't think that we, as a culture, revere lasers enough. 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I'm blaming the lobster bots as responsible for taking down github actions, dns gets a pass ... this time 000
Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I finally figured out why the holodeck sims were never contemporary, but set in the 20th century. It's so painfully obvious, that's the only stuff that was in public domain. Could you imagine Federation copyright laws?! 010
![Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a CORRIDOR! A room door is open, and we see two crewmen spilling out into the hallway in red and blue uniforms. They are otherwise indecipherable tho because they are entirely enveloped in a big cloud of smoke. It's pouring out all around them and into the hallway area, like there's a Phish concert in there. Closed caption reads, "[COUGHING]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i6ocendj65mmddfndihajsky/bafkreid4y3gbxwc5dg4mbzycsbij2lkhte22722ei7rupowkzm7juimqvy)
