Damien Jones
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Damien Jones
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Consultant 🦈 amazonwebshark 🎤 Speaker 🌹 AWS User Group Leader (Lancashire) 🏗️ AWS Community Builder (Data) ☁️ AWS & Azure Certified

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Want to speak with confidence - both on conference stages and on Zoom? I just reviewed @sheenbrisals.bsky.social’s Speak Effectively At Conferences and it's full of honest, practical advice & real‑world stories. Link in comments #PublicSpeaking #SpeakingSkills #AmWriting
June 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
NEW ON #AMAZONWEBSHARK: I use the #OpenSource #Pydantic #Python library to create data validation and #observability processes for my Project Wolfie iTunes data, and try #AmazonQDeveloper with some #pytest unit tests! Link below

#DataValidation #DataEngineering #AmazonQ #pandas #AWS
June 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"All you have to do is type prompt, followed by whatever you want it to say:

prompt "What next, mate?"

which would mean that the Shell would immediately ask you 'What next, mate?' and would go on asking you that every time it's ready for a new command - until you quit out of the Shell"
May 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"One peculiar aspect of Diskdoctor is that it will occasionally rename a disk Lazarus if it thinks it has done a particularly good job of bringing a disk back from the dead. This is just a poor joke on the part of the programmers of Diskdoctor and isn't anything to be worried about."
May 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
30 years ago, when 880k was all you needed
May 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Trip to the shark elders today. Went through some old boxes and returned with treasures 📖🦈
May 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Part of being a Community Builder is that you get to try out hot upcoming AWS stuff like this. It's ultra backward compatible! And I only need one lorry to store all the disks!
April 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Man I forgot how stressful learning a new session is 🎤🦈💦😅
March 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
AO have very kindly sent a recipe for all my leftovers. Which needs *checks notes* two entirely unopened massive bars of chocolate.

If you live in a house where that is leftovers, may I offer my assistance 👀
March 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
In an important part of my development as AWS User Group Lancashire leader, I am pleased to announce that I now have...A STICKER BOX

And this isn't even all of them.

I'm working on the next event - details to be announced soon 💪🌹🦈
March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW ON AMAZONWEBSHARK: I use AWS Step Functions variables and JSONata to create a simplified API data capture workflow with Lambda and DynamoDB. Link in comments.

#AWS #StepFunctions #Serverless #JSONata #DynamoDB #AWSLambda #AWSCloud #AWSCommunity #CloudComputing #CloudDevelopment #TechBlog
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM