DONT YOU PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH Kickstarter Update #2: We funded and now it's just about packing in all the words we can so the output is ever more and more unique and challenging! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dow...

How does For You do this

I finally got around to using ~1/3rd of my favorite new toys from Re:Invent. rsb.io/posts/re-inv... I still haven't found a reason to use tenant-isolated Lambdas thjough.

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

I wrote a post over the break about using executable specs & containers to isolate LLM's to shipping feature branches for review. @dollspace.gay has a better take on adversarial development, I'm optimistic about formal methods finally becoming cool! rsb.io/posts/delega... rsb.io/posts/revisi...

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.

on type safety

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

async await async await async await async await in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵

Today's LinkedIn shitpost I felt was worth cross-posting here, it has an analogy I am proud of. 🎸

🎙️ 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

Inside you there are two wolves: - fitness wolf - AWS wolf They fight eternally about whether you must do undifferentiated heavy lifting.

There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"

Absolutely incredible piece about a font you've seen everywhere:

💌 AWS Valentines Thread 💌 (1/?)

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

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.

Docs now live docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehe... #awscloud #aws

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...

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

Why didn't we continue beyond hypermedia? Where's Ultramedia? Gigamedia v5.2? The Dodecahedral Media Dimension?

“Some problems are better evaded than solved.” Tony Hoare

I;m thinking about thos DSQL rsb.io/posts/re-exp...

Last christmas I gave you my heart and you put it in a blender

While watching Predator it occurred to me that it stars TWO future state governors: Arnie and Jesse "The Body" Ventura

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.

How are none of the major ARM manufacturers/chipsets not called ulna, humerus, or carpal?

@amazonwebservices.bsky.social please inform your marketing team about The Bucketabase

New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

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...

A table... but also a bucket? Iceberg as a service, plus query performance optimizations? This feels like the data lake counterpart to all the recent SQLite-backed transactional persistence services.

Ooooh boy - being able to *force all writers to be conditional* is such a strong invariant. Even when I'm just writing something sloppy, tossing in a "if-none-match" to make sure I'm not blowing away existing data will help me not shoot myself in the foot.