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My body is a machine that turns AWS accounts into expensive AWS accounts.
My To-do list is being thwarted by my eye doctor. They sent me a text to remind me to make an appointment. Instead of just letting me reply to the text to get a few options, they make me call them.

The problem: They aren't answering the phone.

There is no other way to make an appointment.
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If the answer is Kubernetes, then no one really did their due diligence on the question.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
And so continues the stupidity:
August 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Dan's Hardware
Talk about a cheap date
August 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I met my woman in a PR about a race condition. Call that semaphore-play
July 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
New shell script template just dropped

gist.github.com/danshardware...
Dan's Shell Script Template
Dan's Shell Script Template. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Dan's Hardware
"What were her results?"

You stupid simple child, Linda doesn’t bring results, she brings *vibes*. The kind of vibes that say “I gave up integrity for proximity to power and all I got was this Slack workspace full of lawsuits.”
July 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
github.com/awslabs/mcp?...

So this is a collection of containers that are MCP servers that handle AWS-specific tasks like searching docs, running lambdas, or creating diagrams. I've barely played with it, and it's not 100% yet, but what a great resource.
GitHub - awslabs/mcp: AWS MCP Servers — helping you get the most out of AWS, wherever you use MCP.
AWS MCP Servers — helping you get the most out of AWS, wherever you use MCP. - awslabs/mcp
github.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Yo dawg, I heard you like to AI code while you AI code, so I made this MCP Server that lets you run OpenHands from your GenAI workflow.

(It's a work in progress, so please feel free to modify and send PRs)

github.com/danshardware...
GitHub - danshardware/OpenHandsMCP: MCP Server for running openhands
MCP Server for running openhands. Contribute to danshardware/OpenHandsMCP development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is a nice addition: MCP Lambda example: community.aws/content/2s44...
Building a Serverless remote MCP Server on AWS - Part 1
Build a serverless MCP server on AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway that any LLM can access remotely
community.aws
June 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don't want anyone to think that I don't like CloudFormation; I don't, I love it.

HOWEVER

Wow, is the CLI just wonky. Example follows
June 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Wow, exportable ACM certs! I can finally get rid of any remaining jank using LetsEncrypt!

Oh. It's $15 per FQDN on the cert and $149 per wildcard.

Every 90 days.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...
AWS Certificate Manager introduces exportable public SSL/TLS certificates to use anywhere | Amazon Web Services
You can now use AWS Certificate Manager to issue exportable public certificates for your AWS, hybrid, or multicloud workloads that require secure TLS traffic termination.
aws.amazon.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How my day is going
June 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New to me: automatetheboringstuff.com

Great tutorials on data extraction and duct-taping non-optimized media together.
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
automatetheboringstuff.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Stolen from Discord
May 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(1/3) Just looked over AWS's new persistent Docker build servers. Looks like the main advantage is that you can cache all your layers without having to rebuild them all the time, saving a lot of build time.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ac...
Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability | Amazon Web Services
AWS CodeBuild now offers Docker Server capability, enabling a dedicated and persistent Docker server within projects that dramatically reduces build times by maintaining a centralized cache, as demons...
aws.amazon.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Microsoft really proved that you can get away with having a C-tier product and still get market domination if you bundle it with something people actually need.

I'm talking about Teams, specifically, but this extends to SharePoint, IE, Skype, and a ton of other products lost to time.
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
OMG THERE ARE TARIFFS ON UNINHABITED ISLANDS!

LOL, no. There are tariffs designed for a goal that people aren't telling you about. Probably stock market manipulation on a huge scale.

Better administrations would have been thorough in the cover story, but this one doesn't care if it's obvious.
April 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is really solid advice
"don't make the content they'll play at your Nuremberg trial" is the advice I would give
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Dan's Hardware
No context: “Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from @lookitup.baby’s shitposts.”
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
AWS Bedrock is not quite nailing it. Trying to slap all the different LLMs under one API and having them all require different implementation details has been wild. I'll probably make a post about it later, but here are some I found today:
March 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think @github.com needs a warning on repos that are moderately popular but haven't had a commit in quite some time so we know that it's been abandoned without having to dig too deep.
March 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Was it DNS? Missing a file? Phase of moon?

`strace -f -e status=failed -p <PID>`

Not a bad place to start looking.
March 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
March 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM