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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 01/09/2026

My response framing was that egress charges from AWS are the eagle reliably showing up to rip my liver out.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 21/08/2026

My god, the responses to your position here are unhinged.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 25/07/2026

The AI detector has been flagged as AI-generated.

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margaretvaltie.bsky.social @margaretvaltie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

AWS Midwest Community Day is on! Keynote from @quinnypig.com got us kicked off 🎉 #awscommunity #mwcd26

Midwest community day 2026 attendees rise hands

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 10/06/2026

Well that’s a hell of an IAM policy.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 20/05/2026

Shockingly little that’s reader facing. A fair bit on the research behind the issues. All of the code in the publishing infrastructure pipeline.

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David Yanacek @dyanacek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Check out @quinnypig.com's conversation with me on "The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent" on @lastweekinaws.com! We talk #AWS history, #DevOps at @awscloud, and how we've encoded that into AWS DevOps Agent. All with Corey's quick wit. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

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The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 19/05/2026

Me talking to my team after a vendor sales pitch makes me overcommit

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 06/05/2026

What cloud provider would I build on today? For serious stuff, AWS -- not because it's best, but because knowing how a system breaks is worth more than knowing how it works. Principle of least surprise. duckbillhq.com

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 05/05/2026

As someone who’s both American and European neither my brain nor my electrical appliances work properly.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 05/05/2026

I suppose someone has to give systemd’s unpopularity a run for its money.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 04/05/2026

The worst AWS service isn't public. It's Isengard -- the internal tool that means Amazon's engineers never have to manage AWS the way customers do. If they had to live that pain, it'd get fixed. Open source it or stop using it. duckbillhq.com

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 02/05/2026

The buy it now price is way too high, but their bid might get lucky.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 01/05/2026

Built an agentic EA to handle vendor pitch emails. Technically professional. HR couldn't fire someone for these responses but they'd be having some very uncomfortable conversations. Never felt more alive.

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Rachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 30/04/2026

as someone who has battled with the model to try to get it to stop saying 'goblins' I feel somewhat vindicated reading this also... cc/ @quinnypig.com

"Google Doc screenshot goblin" is some shit Corey Quinn would say to me. You're not my nemesis, Chatty, but you're going to be if you keep this up.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 29/04/2026

If your website has a chatbot because your website isn't doing its job, that's a website problem. AI support works when it routes to a human fast. Most deployments are a gauntlet instead. duckbillhq.com

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 28/04/2026

Americans lost less than a 100th of a percent of Amazon’s market cap to scams last year.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 27/04/2026

Vercel: $10B company, built entirely on AWS, 20-30% markup. Hyperscalers are becoming power grids. Everything depends on them but that's not where the interesting stuff is. Unlike PG&E, AWS still wants credit for what its customers build. duckbillhq.com

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 25/04/2026

I bet it went super well since they’re releasing this on Friday evening.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 24/04/2026

The thing that frustrates me most about cloud isn't the pricing. It's that we've forgotten how hard this is. Easy became the assumption. That assumption is where expensive surprises live. duckbillhq.com

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 22/04/2026

"Cloud is too expensive, let's build a data center." If your engineering team hears this and doesn't immediately look ill, they haven't done this before. An AZ is a data center. You're not simplifying. duckbillhq.com

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 19/04/2026

This is why when you want something done right, you turn to the Etsy Witches.

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business goose🪿 @goose.art · 18/04/2026

the real potential of atproto is to let you sync your watched shows across all streaming sites so they dont keep recommending you the same stuff

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 17/04/2026

Yeah, that fix is pending.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 17/04/2026

Gutenberg inventing the movable type printing press, if I'm being pedantic.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 15/04/2026

It's still free (pay if you want it to be nice to you, or for some reason meaner), but now it supports GitLab too. And also macOS 10.13. DeployBar.app awaits you.