Ryan Scott Brown
ryan-sb.bsky.social
Ryan Scott Brown
@ryan-sb.bsky.social
Tech tinkerer
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As I continue to teach my AWS Certification Webinars over at O'Reilly, I grow closer and closer to completely appreciating AWS; but as my students ask me questions, the more confident I am that if I ever meet the person there who names services, I am giving them a wedgie.
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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on type safety
June 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file
September 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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async await async await async await async await

in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵
May 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Today's LinkedIn shitpost I felt was worth cross-posting here, it has an analogy I am proud of. 🎸
May 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🎙️ New AWS Developers Podcast episode!

Ivan Casco @realinvancasco shares how he earned all 14 AWS certs and the golden jacket 🧥🔥

A journey of skill, grit, and community.

Listen now: developers.podcast.g...

#AWSCertified #AWSCommunity
May 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Inside you there are two wolves:
- fitness wolf
- AWS wolf

They fight eternally about whether you must do undifferentiated heavy lifting.
May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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There are 2 environments:
testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"
March 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Absolutely incredible piece about a font you've seen everywhere:
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
February 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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💌 AWS Valentines Thread 💌 (1/?)
February 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
January 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
End RTO now!

Remotely, Lee could have worn the ugliest footwear imaginable and happily hacked away. Nobody would have to know.

But now officemates will have to be actively antagonized by this style choice.
I have a confession to make… I code in black crocs 🐊
January 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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January 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Alright after having done some more work with DSQL - the lack of foreign key constraints doesn't hurt much. I built a small "read-it-later" type clone and the worst annoyance was not being able to use psycopg3

rsb.io/posts/re-exp...
Re:Explaining DSQL
rsb.io
January 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
LLM's generating tests seems fundamentally backwards, and doomed to create iterations of the "QA orders -1 beers, 99999 beers, etc. Customer asks where the bathroom is and the bar catches fire" joke.

If we're going to have (or already do, if GH Copilot is writing 50% of the code checked in) 1/n
December 30, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Why didn't we continue beyond hypermedia?

Where's Ultramedia? Gigamedia v5.2? The Dodecahedral Media Dimension?
December 26, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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“Some problems are better evaded than solved.”

Tony Hoare
December 26, 2024 at 8:18 AM
I;m thinking about thos DSQL

rsb.io/posts/re-exp...
December 22, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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Last christmas I gave you my heart and you put it in a blender
December 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
While watching Predator it occurred to me that it stars TWO future state governors: Arnie and Jesse "The Body" Ventura
December 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Calling them "skeets" is a perfect name to prevent overseriousness. It's an epistemic crime that we had to seriously say "soandso tweeted (rest of quote)..."

Well try to say "soandso skeeted..." and retain Serious Person Voice.
December 16, 2024 at 2:28 AM
How are none of the major ARM manufacturers/chipsets not called ulna, humerus, or carpal?
December 4, 2024 at 8:32 PM
@amazonwebservices.bsky.social please inform your marketing team about The Bucketabase
Okay. We have officially renamed “S3 Bucket Tables” to “Bucketabase.” You’re welcome.
December 3, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...
DSQL Vignette: Aurora DSQL, and A Personal Story - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
December 3, 2024 at 5:44 PM
This evolution of DDB Global / DSQL is lovely. Once you have global atomic clocks, you're able to get around cross-region validation/2PC entirely. aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
It’s About Time: Microsecond-Accurate Clocks on Amazon EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
This post is written by Josh Levinson, AWS Principal Product Manager and Julien Ridoux, AWS Principal Software Engineer Today, we announced that we improved the Amazon Time Sync Service to microsecond...
aws.amazon.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:05 PM