Jared Short
@jaredshort.com
Software, Woodworking, Gaming. AWS Hero.
It’s 7am on a Sunday, and somebody just drove through our rather quiet neighborhood blasting clown car music. I’m both mad and amused.
August 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s 7am on a Sunday, and somebody just drove through our rather quiet neighborhood blasting clown car music. I’m both mad and amused.
On vacation, sitting in a piano bar with my wife. Nearly every song the pianist is playing is renditions of songs we know and enjoy. Then it dawns on me… I’m now the target demographic for what I used to call “old people vacations”.
July 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
On vacation, sitting in a piano bar with my wife. Nearly every song the pianist is playing is renditions of songs we know and enjoy. Then it dawns on me… I’m now the target demographic for what I used to call “old people vacations”.
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Haven't written anything in awhile or done much outside of work. But wanted to do a small sample of the new #cdk blueprint property injection. As always there is sample code in a repo that goes with it.
kennethwinner.com/2025/05/24/c...
kennethwinner.com/2025/05/24/c...
Using AWS CDK Blueprint Property Injection
AWS CDK Blueprint Property Injection
kennethwinner.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Haven't written anything in awhile or done much outside of work. But wanted to do a small sample of the new #cdk blueprint property injection. As always there is sample code in a repo that goes with it.
kennethwinner.com/2025/05/24/c...
kennethwinner.com/2025/05/24/c...
Ever notice how "That's a good question" rarely indicates a truly good question. I wish we would accept complete silence for a few moments when waiting for an answer to a question.
May 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Ever notice how "That's a good question" rarely indicates a truly good question. I wish we would accept complete silence for a few moments when waiting for an answer to a question.
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#30DayChartChallenge: Slopes 📊
Continuing to visualize my moods, this time as a rollercoaster track. Each row in the track is a year, and the dips and valleys represent shifts in mood across each day.
Continuing to visualize my moods, this time as a rollercoaster track. Each row in the track is a year, and the dips and valleys represent shifts in mood across each day.
April 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#30DayChartChallenge: Slopes 📊
Continuing to visualize my moods, this time as a rollercoaster track. Each row in the track is a year, and the dips and valleys represent shifts in mood across each day.
Continuing to visualize my moods, this time as a rollercoaster track. Each row in the track is a year, and the dips and valleys represent shifts in mood across each day.
it's yesterday, be me: "Wow, on-call has been easy. No pages or nothing. Seems like something is wrong, it's TOO quiet!"
today: Critical downstream provider goes down.
today: Critical downstream provider goes down.
a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front
ALT: a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front
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April 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
it's yesterday, be me: "Wow, on-call has been easy. No pages or nothing. Seems like something is wrong, it's TOO quiet!"
today: Critical downstream provider goes down.
today: Critical downstream provider goes down.
Remember when this was a joke?
Silicon Valley- Gilfoye's AI Deleted All Software
YouTube video by Simulated
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March 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Remember when this was a joke?
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Any CDK family out here? I'm using the beta cross-region references. I've got some exports I want to remove but it enforces strong references (this is fine). I tried to find a way to inject my exports to the custom resource but the provider is private and aspects can't seem to visit the node.
February 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Any CDK family out here? I'm using the beta cross-region references. I've got some exports I want to remove but it enforces strong references (this is fine). I tried to find a way to inject my exports to the custom resource but the provider is private and aspects can't seem to visit the node.
Watching Mufasa, my wife and I were like “dang, whoever wrote this was trying real hard to emulate Lin-Manuel Miranda”… then I actually checked the credits for the movie and everything made sense. Holy moly was that a poorly executed movie though.
January 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Watching Mufasa, my wife and I were like “dang, whoever wrote this was trying real hard to emulate Lin-Manuel Miranda”… then I actually checked the credits for the movie and everything made sense. Holy moly was that a poorly executed movie though.
The other thing I have had good luck with (especially with rust) is asking it to take modules that have evolved naturally over time with solid test suites around them, and refactor into more idiomatic and DRY'd up code.
The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g.
- Small changes
- Test that the change works before moving on
- (unit) tests wherever you can
- Small changes
- Test that the change works before moving on
- (unit) tests wherever you can
January 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The other thing I have had good luck with (especially with rust) is asking it to take modules that have evolved naturally over time with solid test suites around them, and refactor into more idiomatic and DRY'd up code.
"Ah yes, those utility poles are clearly very Polish," i mumbled to myself late last night. It's wild how quickly you can build up the most useless knowledge about countries by playing geoguessr.
January 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Ah yes, those utility poles are clearly very Polish," i mumbled to myself late last night. It's wild how quickly you can build up the most useless knowledge about countries by playing geoguessr.
Feeling so "memory" safe right now!
January 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Feeling so "memory" safe right now!
Was playing with an intentionally under-trained model... and I think it circled back into self-aware.
January 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Was playing with an intentionally under-trained model... and I think it circled back into self-aware.
I just sql injected myself with a csv -> json -> sql generator -> string parser. Sanitize them inputs folks.
January 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I just sql injected myself with a csv -> json -> sql generator -> string parser. Sanitize them inputs folks.
if my terminal history ever goes away i'm retiring.
January 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
if my terminal history ever goes away i'm retiring.
seems like a good cause stopjava.com
STOP JAVA
stopjava.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
seems like a good cause stopjava.com
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Happy gotcha day to Landra! We adopted her 5 years ago from Lucky Dog Rescue and it’s been one of the best life choices @jaredshort.com & I have ever made. Forever glad she still likes to cuddle with me on the couch so many years later.
January 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Happy gotcha day to Landra! We adopted her 5 years ago from Lucky Dog Rescue and it’s been one of the best life choices @jaredshort.com & I have ever made. Forever glad she still likes to cuddle with me on the couch so many years later.
fine. I'll use the XLR on my mic and do things right. I've only been remote working for 15 years, practically an intern.
January 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
fine. I'll use the XLR on my mic and do things right. I've only been remote working for 15 years, practically an intern.
ghostty.org is pretty okay. seems pretty speedy and all my normal stuff works out of the box.
Ghostty
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
ghostty.org
January 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
ghostty.org is pretty okay. seems pretty speedy and all my normal stuff works out of the box.
I'm not saying I'm an AWS expert… but I am saying I finally tracked down the random AWS account charging me small amounts every month and closed it.
January 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm not saying I'm an AWS expert… but I am saying I finally tracked down the random AWS account charging me small amounts every month and closed it.
just got a marketing email for a "waterproof rain jacket"...
January 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
just got a marketing email for a "waterproof rain jacket"...
Documentation from a provider in the healthcare sector reads “production environment is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the exception of Sundays…” and honestly I can’t really sum up the space much better than that.
December 29, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Documentation from a provider in the healthcare sector reads “production environment is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the exception of Sundays…” and honestly I can’t really sum up the space much better than that.
Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...
Re:Explaining DSQL
rsb.io
December 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...
One of the less talked-about aspects of serverless is the code rot that can occur strictly based on the fact that the services can happily run for literal years unattended. Not even talking just dependency updates, I just mean organizationally you can just lose tribal knowledge entirely around it.
December 18, 2024 at 7:38 PM
One of the less talked-about aspects of serverless is the code rot that can occur strictly based on the fact that the services can happily run for literal years unattended. Not even talking just dependency updates, I just mean organizationally you can just lose tribal knowledge entirely around it.