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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 4h

Updated Halloween #bsky “scary name”.

Still not as frightening as @quinnypig.com’s

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5h

Good news, computers now can “imagine your feet” so creepy dudes on the internet don’t have to.

Good work, Google.

The Verge @theverge.com · 5h

Google’s AI try-on imagines your feet in new shoes

Google’s AI will swap your shoes for you.

buff.ly

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TheSpinMD @mikemaney.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes your laptop finds the perfect sticker to adorn its otherwise pristine lid. / @quinnypig.com

A holographic, prism-like sticker of a man’s face on a silver laptop lid. The man appears to be screaming at something, mouth agape (likely a cloud).

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 22h

“Pilates is named after its founder, Joe Pilates” will never not sound stupid.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 1d

The retool app is great for my ops team, but the authorship portion is now a containerized app that’s iterating rapidly.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 1d

That said, I’m skeptical: the Retool app I built to publish the @lastweekinaws.com newsletter hasn’t really changed since then; now I’m replacing it with a vibe coded webapp.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 1d

At the Retool Summit in SF this morning. Positioning themselves as an enterprise AppGen platform.

I’ve been a Retool customer since 2019; I’m a big fan.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 1d

Why run a company when you can run your mouth instead?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 1d

Techmeme front page:

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 2d

“We would like your feedback”

I seriously doubt it.

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BART @bart.gov · 2d

📺 Happy Monday! We have another Cab Cam video for you! You’re watching sped-up footage of the BART OAK Airport Line from the view of a rider from Coliseum to OAK Airport.

Head to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/@BARTable for the full video.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 2d

I never get invited to the cool kid parties.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 2d

This week’s special episode of the @lastweekinaws.com podcast was recorded from Maine, so it had to be done over the wireless.

I’m still giggling.

overcast.fm/+AASZZjPqZCk

Your Weekly Broadcast from Where the Cloud Arrives by Dirigible — AWS Morning Brief

AWS Morning Brief for the week of October 6th, 2025, with Corey Quinn. Links:Deploying AI models for inference with AWS Lambda using zip packagingAnnouncing Amazon ECS Managed Instances Amazon EBS inc...

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 2d

Obnoxiously, the cost scale with instance size, as if updating an AMI took more work on larger instances than small ones.

It’s fairly shitty.

Marko Bevc @marko.social · 2d

Going back to: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... , thanks to @quinnypig.com something to mind, contrary to ECS this service is not free 😉 which is not mentioned ↑.

I've done some calculations, and similar to EKS Auto Mode you'll be paying on average ~13% premium on top of your compute managed by ECS.

Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 4d

If you check out a map, you’ll see I-95 runs through much of the state. Find the on-ramp, get on headed southbound, and drive right on out of Maine.

Pat’s Pizza is also phenomenal.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 4d

As someone who moved from Maine to LA in 2003, this ain’t it.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 4d

Tell me you haven’t updated your understanding of LA since the late 20th century, but use different words.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 4d

“In range?” Did the Portland “International” Jetport install a missile battery since the last time I was in Maine?

An aircraft arrivals board. One item is listed as in range.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

Man, this @productmanager.bsky.social guy is a MASSIVE douchebag. #monktoberfest.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

A freaking delight, you are.

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

Life is a complicated thing, but I still never thought I’d have to say this in my 40s:

My mom dropped me off today.

#monktoberfest

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

“We have been working harder than you can imagine to be able to deprecate something.” I dunno Google, I can imagine quite a lot at this point.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d

A Google exec says Alphabet has been working for the past two years to technologically decouple its life sciences unit Verily so that it can be sold or spun off (Bloomberg)

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

Good god it’s like the old days of Twitter.

“Uh, do I know you?”

“My photo on Twitter is a banana.”

“OH MY GOD BANANA IT IS SO GREAT TO MEET YOU IN PERSON! EVERYONE, COME MEET BANANA!”

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

If I need a comms person, you definitely do.

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 6d

is there any more classic tech founder fallacy than thinking you don't need a comms person

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 5d

Wait. Are you at Monktoberfest?

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