George Alton
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George Alton
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Oh wow, ditched my linksys router today for a Ubiquiti Dream Router 7. It’s bloody brilliant
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.

Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
September 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
went down a rabbit hole last night of looking up old thinkpads to buy as a backup laptop (that's how I'm justifying this). T14 with an AMD Ryzen seems to be a reasonable choice.
August 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Spent my evening watching go videos on go channel patterns. I love Python, but in 2016 I wish I’d made the choice to spend more time with go.
July 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JIRA
JIRA Inhibits Real Alignment
July 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Managing IAM Permissions just a officially a lot easier aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

This looks like most of what I need from the fluggo iam scraper.
AWS Service Reference Information now supports annotations for service actions - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Service Reference Information now supports annotations for service actions
aws.amazon.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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If you’ve ever felt like asking for help would cost too much, this one’s for you.
Ashley Willis
Don't Come Inside Until the Streetlights Are On I grew up in the '80s, where parenting often sounded like, "Don't come home until the sun goes down," or "Go dri...
ashley.dev
June 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Gonna post about AI

My thoughts on what I see a lot of AI doing in software engineering is creating many new LOC that should be handled by higher levels of abstraction or more comprehensive platform implementations.
June 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Not done this in a long time - #AWS Wishlist
Provide a way of Mapping of the An STS SourceIdentity from the incoming OIDC/SAML Authorization when vending a Cognito Role.
June 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Just found the AWS cheat code URL that redirects ARNs to their console page.

This is what my go project was doing.

I got to learn a little go, no longer need to maintain hundreds of case statements to map resource types to urls. And I should get this out much quicker.

Everyone’s a winner!
April 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
ngl - I’m a little bit in love with golang
March 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This does not mean that execs should never be im the details!!

"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!

You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!
March 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Note to future me: Multi Region Access Points don’t work for CloudFormation Guard Hooks
March 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
ok switched over to zen browser after firefox broke their "never have, never will" promise
March 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
ooof second time losing to the boss blind in balatro that requires you play the same hand and a Flush != Straight Flush - I should really learn my lesson
February 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
was just taking a look at why using gio to launch desktop files fails when Terminal=true

14 years of history!

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-...
'Run in terminal' should use the preferred terminal (#338) · Issues · GNOME / GLib · GitLab
Submitted by Osama Khalid Link to original bug (#627943)
gitlab.gnome.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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4 people away from 1,000 discord users for EventCatalog ❤️

Come join :D discord.gg/3rjaZMmrAm
February 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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#AWS #CloudFormation now supports stack refactoring! Super excited about this launch!! 🚀 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
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February 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
looks like we're getting very close to building zig projects on ashai linux github.com/ziglang/zig/... - the amount of work put in since I started watching this is great
runtime page size detection + rework GeneralPurposeAllocator to reduce active mapping count + Allocator VTable API update by archbirdplus · Pull Request #20511 · ziglang/zig
release notes This PR implements runtime page sizes. Closes #4082. Closes #11308. Closes #16331. Closes #20038. Closes #20714. Notable changes: Remove mem.page_size. Add heap.min_page_size, hea...
github.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Oh wow, started reading @andrewhl.bsky.social Facilitating Software Architecture this morning and this first chapter articulates my lived experience with the practice of software architecture.
February 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM