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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 29/09/2026

Happy to announce aws-vault v7.15: SSO sign-in now uses the OAuth2 PKCE flow by default, like `aws sso login`. No more matching device codes between terminal and browser-just a single approval in the browser. Thanks Patrick O'Doherty!🔐 And the project also got a new logo🎉 github.com/ByteNess/aws...

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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

is it basic engineering practices

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 26/08/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to share this excellent mashup: youtu.be/E3aDzQCPi44?...

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2 Many DJ's - 9 to 5 / Eple

YouTube video by Matchaburger

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.

House martins sitting on a tiled roof and telephone wire, with a blue sky in the background.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 12/08/2026

Our trip to Reykjavik to experience eclipse totality didn’t *quite* go to plan.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 30/07/2026

Railway engineering, or establishing a jewellery factory.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 28/07/2026

Say what you like about GenAI, but it’s certainly helping to shine an identifying light on the people who are both lazy and stupid.

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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

'you're a solutions architect? You mean you mix fancy drinks?'

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 01/07/2026

I read this morning that Palantir stock spiked in value, which may have been auto-trading bots reading this headline and believing it to be real. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 26/06/2026

“Honestly, what the fuck”

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 24/06/2026

I will always stan LDAP.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 18/06/2026

@theguardian.com I’m a subscriber, using the iPad app (latest version). I’m still seeing World Cup content on my home page even though I’ve used the settings to try and hide it. I cannot tell you how little interest I have in football, even big international competitions.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 16/06/2026

Ok, but then how do I cook them? Some recipe this is.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 31/05/2026

New euphemism for AWS re:invent just dropped.

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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just read a fascinating piece on how an AWS team applied random graph theory to redesign data center networks. Started with a Slack shout-out and a "spaghetti monster" of cables. Love when theoretical math meets real-world engineering at scale.

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How AWS used random graph theory to build more efficient data centers

How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code.

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 20/05/2026

Hello! Calling all Americans/Canadians/Australians/everyone else who are not in my timezone who likes puzzly word games like Wordle and Connections. I made a game called Keywords and it is quite good fun. Give it a try - or please share it with someone who might like it!

keywords.bagpuss.org

Keywords

Can you discover today's five connected words?

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 15/05/2026

vim, emacs, pico, vscode, intellij, joe

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If one of the tech arseholes named an AI or glorified speaker after me and that became the meaning of my name I would become the machine that hunted them down. Alexas, Claudes, Siris, you should get together and hatch a plan. We would all understand.

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Citizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I discovered that my Green candidate won by 2 votes against Reform after 2 recounts. Don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count. So glad I made the effort.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

There’s no specific date for this one, but *during* May 1961 Italian artist Piero Manzoni shat in some tins, so I think we can all agree that – precise or otherwise – this is a 65th anniversary that simply cannot go unmarked 🧵

Artist’s Shit by Piero Manzoni – a grey tin with a paper label. The paper label has a grey text background of the repeated word PIEROMANZONI, over which, in several languages, appear the words: Artist’s Shit. Contents: 30 gr. Net, Freshly preserved. Produced and tinned in May 1961. In this image, the English version of the text is to the front

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/05/2026

If you see this, post a bird.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 09/04/2026

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 07/04/2026

I would simply not have booked the mentally ill anti-semite.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/04/2026

The Artemis II mission was as awe inspiring as the Apollo program yesterday. Now fucking look at it.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 23/03/2026

I don’t know who needs to know this, but Marks & Spencer extremely chocolatey hot cross buns are back in stock for the season

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

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AWS UG UK @awsuguk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We’ve just published the video of @topper.me.uk's AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion. Watch now - awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AI #Serverless #AWSCommunity #DevOps #EC2

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 13/01/2026

I’d watch an anime of Dark City.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 12/01/2026

Ok team, I’ll be at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social at the beginning of next month. Who else will I be seeing there?

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/01/2026

The EU AI Act essentially demands this.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 01/01/2026

This used to happen in the early days of the dot com gold rush, but the thefts were mostly things like Cisco line cards, worth tens of thousands and easily smuggled out in a pocket.

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AWS UG UK @awsuguk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Wed 14 Jan 2026, AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion 🎤 @topper.me.uk will cover what mattered, what didn’t, and what’s useful now vs later. Then - open discussion, so bring your questions + hot takes. www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #CloudComputing #DevOps #Serverless #AWSCommunity #AWSCloud

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 06/12/2025

Honestly can’t tell what’s more stupid: football itself; FIFA inventing a “peace prize”; or the idea that tangerine hitler deserves it. This is the absolute fucking dumbest timeline. Brawndo for our crops next.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 05/12/2025

CMV: These are just Niknaks

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The Scale Factory @scalefactory.com · 04/12/2025

Ok, @topper.me.uk here for the final AWS re:Invent keynote of the year. This one is Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and unusually it's just an hour long - which is probably for the best, because it's pretty late here in the UK.

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The Scale Factory @scalefactory.com · 04/12/2025

Sorry, @topper.me.uk again. It's time for the Infrastructure Innovations keynote from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. In this keynote we usually expect to hear Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown talk about some of the impressive feats of engineering that keep this hyperscaler up and running.

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 03/12/2025

I'm happy to share we have a fresh aws-vault release v7.8.0 including some cool features like custom endpoint URL, extended package support with NixOS, latest dep updates and others 🚀 Glad to see active #OSS community involvement and helping keeping the project active! github.com/ByteNess/aws...

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A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments - ByteNess/aws-vault

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The Scale Factory @scalefactory.com · 03/12/2025

"Agentic AI makes it cheaper for us to get to space". Sure, Jan.

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The Scale Factory @scalefactory.com · 03/12/2025

Hello again! @topper.me.uk here reporting from the second AWS re:Invent keynote, this time given by Dr Swami Sivasubramanian. The keynote is titled "The Future of Agentic AI is Here" which might well mean we get less Sagemaker and other data content today, but let's see.

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