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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 · 19/06/2026

Please enjoy this guy, spotted at our place a few weeks ago.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 31/05/2026

New euphemism for AWS re:invent just dropped.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/05/2026

If you see this, post a bird.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 31/03/2026

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/01/2026

Hello from the first salad in weeks.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 05/12/2025

CMV: These are just Niknaks

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 18/11/2025

Shill harder, dickheads.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 28/10/2025

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 12/10/2025

Imagine having less game than a fucking AI *and* thinking this would work as a tactic. Give me strength. “Chatfished” is an excellent word for it though.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 15/06/2025

Also: avoid pregnancy during alcohol

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 04/06/2025

It’s the @awsuguk.bsky.social meetup! Solid turnout 👌🏻

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 30/04/2025

Apparently you “can’t just choose the AWS executive you think most deserves it”.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 30/04/2025

Presumably this is intended to repel the healthcare professionals whose conference is down the hall from here.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 22/04/2025

Still, it landed well for most people, which is always nice.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 22/04/2025

Congratulations to the author of this piece of feedback, left in relation to my recent QCon talk, for correctly identifying my personal brand.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 09/04/2025

It’s the 70th @awsuguk.bsky.social meetup tonight, featuring talks from @stack72.dev and Ayhan Setirekli. With thanks to NetApp and @scalefactory.com for sponsoring, and AutogenAI for hosting.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 08/04/2025

Hey #QCon folks, I’ll be speaking in one hour, in the Fleming room on the 3rd floor.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 07/04/2025

Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout… pop music.

A roller banner at QCon with city names: San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Munich

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 23/02/2025

When you order your Spike on Wish or Temu.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 18/01/2025

We’ve been worried about you for some time now.

A scene from the TV series “How I Met Your Mother” depicting a banner with “intervention” written on it.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 24/12/2024

The future is silly. My brother is watching some Lego thing and this error message, with a hefty url, has been sat over the top of the screen for the last three episodes.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 10/12/2024

Not entirely sure why I haven’t done this after re:Invent every year tbh. Miami is just the right temperature at this time of year, and mostly on the way home.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 06/12/2024

So long re:Invent, it’s been real. Next stop: Miami! ✈️🏝️

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 04/12/2024

For some reason if you want to order at this restaurant you need a senior partner, 10 graduate systems analysts, a multi-year multi-million pound commitment, and an army of offshore delivery resources.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 04/12/2024

Also be careful not to sponsor a venue whose name can be too easily misread as “cameltoe”

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 04/12/2024

“Don’t you know who I am?” re:Invent Wednesday edition.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/12/2024

Celebrating Amazon’s leadership principle of “frugality” with hundreds of thousands of dollars of LED floor panels.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 02/12/2024

I took this yesterday after I checked in, but entirely forgot to share it. Compared with similar shots from previous years, I look remarkably awake!

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 29/11/2024

Seems appropriate to share this here.

Some blue sky, visible above the clouds from a flight.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 29/11/2024

My other pro re:Invent tip is to spend all year racking up air miles, and spend them on an Upper Class flight to the conference. Cheers from the Heathrow lounge. (With apologies to the colleagues who are joining me this time who *haven’t* taken this approach)

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 25/11/2024

Something tells me nobody in the design team at Arla was in the UK when The Mary Whitehouse Experience was on the air.

Photograph of a milk carton with the words “Let’s Get Milkyyyy”

Screen grab of The Mary Whitehouse Experience “milky milky” man, from a sketch in which he participated in Mastermind, chosen specialist subject “Milk and the way it smells”

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 19/11/2024

Team Big Coat checking in.

Me, wearing an extremely warm skiing coat, with a faux fur hood trim.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 19/11/2024

The weather is pretty cold here this week, but I’m prepared. Please observe: the GritHub.

A photo of a spreader full of grit salt.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 03/11/2024

Do you remember when motorway service stations used to have nice little canteens run by dinner ladies, serving tiny metal pots of tea for one, mid-tier pies, fish & chips, and mushy vegetables? Now we have Taco Bell, KFC, and Burger King. We’ve failed as a country.

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Jon Topper @topper.me.uk · 06/01/2024

Blameless retrospectives be like

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