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sugarbaby cosplaying as a tech consultant • mean eastern european with unrealistically high expectations and unreasonable quality standards 🏳️‍🌈he/him🏳️‍🌈

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Ben Bridts @benbridts.be · 26/06/2025
I did a fun thing and gave every Belgian access to my AWS Account (or: playing around with IAM Roles Anywhere) cloudar.be/awsblog/sign...
cloudar.be
Sign in with your eID: Using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with a SmartCard Reader
Using temporary credentials to access resources, has long been a best practice and is usually straight-forward if the person or machine that is starting the action is already known in AWS (either by u...
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Clemens Vasters @clemens.vasters.com · 30/04/2025
"To further cement the nexus between Microsoft and Europe, going forward our European datacenter operations and their boards will be overseen by a European board of directors that consists exclusively of European nationals and operates under European law." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
blogs.microsoft.com
Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Microsoft On the Issues
As a multinational company, Microsoft believes in trans-Atlantic ties that promote mutual economic growth and prosperity.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/01/2025
Hey @rmondello.com, if I remember correctly you were collecting feedback for Passwords. Is that still a thing? If yes, I have 1.5 feature requests targeting power-users. If no, no worries! Passwords is still a heck of a lot more awesome than I expected and I will still fully migrate to it ❣️
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/09/2024
Holy heck does the the agenda for AWS Community Day Romania look awesome 🤯 I mean I was expecting it to be *good* but I wan't expecting it to be *this good*. It's amazing! aws-community.ro#agenda
aws-community.ro
AWS Community Day Romania
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 14/09/2024
⚠️AWS WAF Bot Control v3.0 will no longer block some AI bots by default❗ I'm breaking my social media no-no and pulling this out of OtherSecretProject since I bet a bunch of people won't carefully read the changelog and docs and AWS intentionally did not call this out 🤦 1/14
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 09/08/2024
FYI: just 11 days left to send your talk proposals for AWS Community Day Romania! 🚀🇷🇴🚀
Call for speakers! Register to become a speaker on aws-community.ro by 20 August 2024. AWS Community Day Romania, happening in Timisoara, on 3 October 2024, at the Iulius Congress Hall.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 30/03/2024
Apropos of nothing: after the Log4Shell drama the Log4j team got a massive influx of support, a huge and constant influx of money, expert assistance, and corporations&governments started actively supporting their open-source dependencies. Yes yes yes, that is 100% what happened 🙃
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 30/03/2024
FYI: I am very annoyed with social media but I don't wanna give it up so I'll be trying some things. Considered but dismissed for now: - going private - limiting replies + mass blocking - hiding behind a paywall (Twitter subscriptions) - moving off-platform (private groups)
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/03/2024
This looks fabulous 🤩 YAS, this is how I want to manage developer environments! TL;DR: Nix but with a proper user experience, similar to what Docker did to containers. It's barely v1 but it looks great and the Flox team seems brilliant 🤞 flox.dev/blog/flox-wh...
flox.dev
flox | Why we built Flox
Flox CLI 1.0 and FloxHub is here! It's a good opportunity to reflect on our own experiences and the reasons we feel Flox is a part of the next generation of software development practices.
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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 19/03/2024
If you’re in Paris for KubeCon EU, I’d love to see you! I’ve even 3D printed some earrings to give away!
This image shows me with short, pastel pink hair and blue eyes. I am wearing large, tortoiseshell-framed glasses, and have a black leather jacket on. Notable accessories include distinctive blue earrings with the Kubernetes logo, and a layered necklace. My makeup is natural with a soft pink lip color, and I am standing indoors with a partial view of a door in the background.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/03/2024
APAC&EMEA are up and I'm getting way too many DMs about Bloomberg's report that HashiCorp is considering options (including a sale) Let's all chill until 13:30GMT first, m'kay? At that point we'll either 1) know more or 2) not know more and we'll chill because this isn't something we can control 🧘
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 17/03/2024
FYI: I am not at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon — I am not doing in-person conferences in 2024. I'm sorry I won't get to see y'all and I am full of FOMO so please have some extra fun for me!
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/03/2024
Person 1: so cloud is somebody else's computer/data-center the same way a dildo is someone else's penis. you know, technically true but so not true — we have glow-in-the-dark ones and dragons and all that Person 2: oh, it's an evolving definition — like the camembert and brie thing! Me:
Person saying "You are all doing great" while eating popcorn and being very entertained
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/03/2024
Late December: I start using App1 more seriously Mid-January: I start using App2 seriously March, looking at the changelogs for both apps: 8 and 12 updates aaand literally every single one has at least 1 bugfix for me 🤣 Ah, I love seeing that my chaotic QA spirit is very much alive 💪
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 15/03/2024
Did anybody write a full timeline for the ✨API client drama✨? You know, the whole Postman did something bad so people moved to Insomnia, Insomnia did something bad so people moved to, Hoppscotch etc etc. It's a perfect and short example of some market forces and I wanna save it.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 15/03/2024
I hate the "one-way/two-way door decision" bullshit so much. It's condescending executive puffery at its finest 🤢
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 11/03/2024
"C'mon, with the ever-present hero syndrome and with the military language overuse are you really surprised that DevOps has many similarities to the Military Industrial Complex!?!"
GIF of Nathan Fillion from the Castle TV show: he tries to say something, gives up, and is lost in thought
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 06/03/2024
🏆 Best line of February 2024 🥇 "Fuck no, I don't wanna compare the number of orgasms I had in 2023 with the number of meetings I had in 2023 — it's a lose-lose: I have so many meetings that'll show I am either underfucked or, arguably worse, overcompensating. Neither is good!"
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 22/02/2024
PSA: internet connections are super-fast these days so keep an eye on data transfer when you're working! This PSA is brought to you by Vlad uploading, deleting, and re-uploading 3TB to S3 Glacier IR. Multiple times. An embarrassingly large number of times 🤦
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 21/02/2024
Developers: ew LLMs suggest such bad code 🤮 Also developers: wow LLMs generate such good business/marketing text 😍 I beg of you all please stop this bullshit — it ruins the message you're trying to communicate and it absolutely does not make you sound "smart" or "business-y"!
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Daniel Terhorst-North @tastapod.com · 27/01/2024
If you think of all platform engineering as just Heroku fanfic, it makes a lot more sense.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 23/01/2024
FYI: I am tentatively trying LinkedIn again. I have no idea if this'll be a thing or not (last time I tried it I rage quit in ~24 hours) buuut some of y'all are having awesome conversations there and some of y'all wanted me there so here we go: www.linkedin.com/in/vlaaaaaaad
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 19/01/2024
I am tentatively trying LinkedIn again! I have no idea how LinkedIn works and the last time I tried it I got so annoyed I deleted it after less than 24 hours, but some of y'all wanted me there and Twitter is a mess so here we go: www.linkedin.com/in/vlaaaaaaad
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 19/01/2024
Pro tip for my alcoholic ADHD followers: go get your bone density checked! The test is called a DEXA/DXA test and it's basically a series of X-rays done while you're laying down — it's super-easy to do and should not be that expensive (~30€ for me).
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 19/01/2024
"No Vlad, don't get a hair transplant! You're at the perfect mid-way point: with that one outfit you look like a college freshman and with that other outfit you look like a middle-age dad 😍 You're hot for both people with daddy issues and for people without daddy issues!"
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 18/01/2024
"Nortel is a good example of this" said Vlad to the room before seeing a bunch of confused faces
GIF of Chandler from Friends coming home, opening the door and saying "Honey, I'm old"
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 11/01/2024
‼️ ECS on Fargate now supports EBS Volumes 🚀 For tasks using 16vCPUs the performance quotas are: - 15.000 IOPS - 500 MiBps throughput - 4.500Mbps bandwidth Launch blog post: aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... Performance docs: docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/la...
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 07/01/2024
Maybe me getting older in 2024 is not so bad
Screenshot of an iMessage conversation.

Person: "God. You're a daddy. Not a dad. Please. Pleaaaaase. Stop torturing me with dad jokes"
Me: "Never!"
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 30/12/2023
Waaaat, Siri now has image descriptions!?! 🤯 I was doing my beauty routine and I had my AirPods in playing music. I got an iMessage and Siri did not go "Friend sent an image" but instead Siri said "Friend sent a photo of a white cat laying on a grey couch". THAT IS FABULOUS!
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 28/12/2023
Diiiid anybody try using Amazon Verified Access to protect a static website in S3? I am curious enough to ask about it but not curious enough to actually test it 😅 AVA technically can be put in front of any ENI and S3 has VPC Endpoints, so this might work?
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 26/12/2023
"Vlad, pls chill, it's Christmas" says the poor Preview app struggling to open a 94MB PNG screenshot on my Intel i9 MacBook Pro 😂
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 25/12/2023
Unnamed company: we'll build a nice reader/knowledge base application. It'll be lovely! Vlad, testing a few apps: yeah, so I currently have a 1TB knowledge base that I am consolidating and that I expect will end up being ~12TB when the process finishes. Do y'all support that?
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Fuck I did it
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 23/12/2023
Are there any public examples of tiered documentation? By "tiered documentation" I mean having one set of documentation for human users and having another set of documentation specifically for LLM training.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 16/12/2023
Today I learned: since February 2023 the internet has pirated/cracked versions of HashiCorp's Enterprise products — Nomad Enterprise, Vault Enterprise, Consul Enterprise, and Boundary Enterprise 🤣 Enterprise piracy!?! With keygens and patches 🏴‍☠️
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You are a Pirate Limewire 10 hours
lol, limewire.
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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 12/12/2023
Oh Amazon, you remain the undefeated king of badly naming things. ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🤯
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Clemens Vasters @clemens.vasters.com · 07/12/2023
Simple conference talk idea. A chair. A fireplace video on the screen. "I've been building public cloud PaaS services for 15 years. Ask me anything." If you have a CFP open ⬇️
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 05/12/2023
FYI: I won't be live-posting my watching of ALL the re:Invent talks this year I'll still watch all the talks, don't get me wrong, but I won't be posting the journey. By December 15 I have to finish my re:Invent recap and I am more defensive of my time now so I have to prioritize 🫡
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Luc van Donkersgoed @lucvandonkersgoed.com · 30/11/2023
I ran into the best example of monitoring vs. observability the other day. On the left; CloudWatch metrics. It shows a large gap between min and max Lambda duration, but it doesn't tell me why. On the right; the same data, grouped by "has_search_query". And now I understand.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
In carbon emissions terms, flying 70,000 people to Dubai is the equivalent of at least 25 Taylor Swift years www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Do 70,000 People Really Need to Be at a Climate Confab?
The expanding crowd risks overshadowing the purpose and turning the meeting into another celebrity-studded gathering of rich people.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 30/11/2023
Oops, I should've announced this: folks, I am all alive and fine — I am just not posting thoughts about re:Invent for now! I appreciate all the slightly-panicked DMs y'all sent me and I am flattered that you were so concerned 😊 1/12 (thread to explain why I am not posting)
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/11/2023
Several tech executives have pulled out of an upcoming developers conference after accusations that the event’s organizer fabricated female speakers’ profiles
bloomberg.com
Microsoft, AWS Speakers Exit Event Over Fake Female Profiles
An online developers conference was canceled after several tech executives pulled out of the event following accusations that the organizer fabricated female speakers’ profiles.
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 20/11/2023
Kubernetes encouraging bad practices will soon get so much worse :lolsob:
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Vlad Ionescu (he/him) @vladionescu.me · 13/11/2023
"Chat with your computer" is the AI version of "cars need touchscreens instead of knobs and buttons" Seriously, y'all know that HCI experts exist, right? Right?! RIGHT!?!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Being a woman in media: 2016: Fusion acquires Gawker Media, lays off entire women’s section because they say Jezebel is enough to handle the women stuff. 2019: G/O Media buys Jezebel and other sites. They shut down Fusion website. 2023: G/O puts Jezebel up for sale. No buyer. Shuts it down.
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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Floating person above a lonely road with the text "People pleasing is over. Become unacceptable."
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Steve McPherson @steventurous.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Also I got Max to do PER MY LAST EMAIL
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Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com · 08/11/2023
✍️📖 I’ll be at the Cilium Experience Centre signing more copies of Learning eBPF at 3:30 today #kubecon, come say hello!
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