Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

I fell for a phishing attack yesterday. Got away with it, fortunately, since the fake site didn’t handle 2FA, and I didn’t use the password for anything else. But if you see an email from ”Mailchimp” saying “Campaign Issue Detected” that actually goes to “mailchimp accounts dot com” then be aware.

New #AWS architectural refactoring just dropped: "Replace Step Function with Durable Lambda Function" But seriously - this looks like a very neat addition to Lambda. Will be fun to try it out and find where the holes are. docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/lates...

#Servermore aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh... #AWS

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Rewatched Dungeons and Dragons: Honour among Thieves from two years ago and it really is a wonderful movie. Deserves to be considered in the league of all great action fantasy films that don’t take themselves too seriously, but are seriously well made.

Back in 2020 I published a book, with my good friend John Chapin, on using AWS Lambda with Java. Most of the book holds up well, but one thing that didn’t was the code examples, so I’ve made a few updates to the example repo. More details of what I changed here: blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-1...

I resubscribed to Netflix yesterday after 2 or 3 years away, and it’s a very jarring experience using a consumer app, that I’m paying for, that’s insidiously designed to maximize business KPIs rather than my own experience. Examples and more thoughts here: hachyderm.io/@mikebrobert...

For my TypeScript + "doing it the old way" web dev friends - here's a small library - "Hiccough" that generates HTML using a tiny internal DSL. So no templates. github.com/symphoniaclo... Based on the old "Hiccup" Clojure library. I use it for both full pages, and snippets requested via HTMX

The best thing about this year’s version of Superman is the dog. The most terrifying thing is Luther’s very normal but distinctly nerdy minions who have plenty of free will and are perfectly fine with knowingly being the baddies.

I miss the days when hard decisions were questions like "Do I use SP or LP for my E-180's?" (I used SP, I'm not a heathen. Quality over quantity always)

I think this hits us all in cycles, but over the past week I've really been struggling with the emotional dissonance of going to work meetings, keeping up with tasks and spending time with my kid while also patrolling to try to prevent people from being grabbed and disappeared from the place I live.

WOOOOOOT!!! What a day!

Lovely day here in #NYC. Just went out and voted (for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , and yes on all the ballot proposals). Now looking forward to @hellgatenyc.com 's live result stream tonight.

Tonight’s #NYC production of Waiting for Godot with Keanu Reaves and Alex Winter (yes, Bill and Ted), directed by Jamie Lloyd, was a surprising success! I’ve seen Godot before and it’s … well. A bit odd. But the whole team did an incredible job of making it fun and accessible. Definitely recommended

In hindsight, Max Zorin’s plan had some merit

Huh, I guess us-east-1 wants its old us-tirefire-1 nickname back. It’s been a while.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “It wasn’t always DNS.”

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I feel like democrat funder email lists are like copies of albums on tape back in the 80s and 90s - gradually the quality gets fuzzier as copies of copies of copies are made, until it ends up that I get addressed, from some random person running in North Dakota, as “Dear Mr Robert Mikklehorn”

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Turns out San Francisco is a heck of a nice place to visit in September.

I use AWS a ton but Lambda still astounds me. Throw some code in a function, send 1m requests as fast as you can. It ate up all available file descriptors on my little t3 box and still ran 18k RPS with a p99 of 0.3479s. Not many services can go from 0 to 18k RPS instantaneously with this p99.

I know I’m late to this, but Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a brilliant film.

For some people early September means back to school, or fantasy football season. For Sara and I it’s … START OF 2025 / 26 THEATRE SEASON! We started tonight with “Art” on Broadway, a revival of a French play which was a big hit in the UK and US in the 90s. It was .. OK. A bit dated. Onwards!

just casually enjoying the evident warmth and respect between these two humans, who just made a banger together “To be clear, all the good ideas in this track are Sofia’s" "I always admire the light and the beautiful shine Dan" The song "Unidos" is dedicated to trans women in Latin America🏳️‍⚧️

An American politician saying that they don’t want any more campaign money. This is a first! :) Looking forward to voting for this guy (again) in two months’ time.

realistic Star Trek

People need to understand that the folks running these companies are culturally diseased from tech bro culture and American narcissism. Poor judgement, no sense of public responsibility, no emotional intelligence. They are 10 year olds running a ketamine-laced lemonade stand.

I'm impressed with how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's team are presenting his platform. Clear at a top level, and each bullet point then has a detailed doc behind it. I wish all campaigns were this open. I'm biased since I like his policies, but still, I'm impressed.

Turns out that PC Richard (an old school, NYC-based, electronics and appliance store chain) (a) is still in fact open on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn and (b) will sell you a Blu-ray player. Why I made use of these facts is a long and boring story for another day.

Since @quinnypig.com was enthusiastic about the new #AWS #Lambda GitHub Action I'm here to burst his bubble and explain why it doesn't really help - blog.symphonia.io/posts/2025-0...

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Hi #AWS -using friends. I’ve been writing some articles about fundamental AWS ops for small-medium companies, all oriented around AWS Organizations. So far I’ve covered org structure, Accounts, managing human users, IaC. I have another 4 or so articles still to come, so am about half way. (1/3)

Ah, I see we’ve re-entered the season of “saying ‘leverage’ as a verb, the word ‘use’ is Right There”. So I’ll just be over here, sitting down, gentling rocking in the corner. Verbing weirds words, people. Don’t do it.

After I-don’t-know-how-many-years, WhatsApp actually has a full iPad app. So that’s nice. (And yeah, I know, I prefer Signal too, but most of my British people use WhatsApp)

20 years ago today I was on one of the trains in London that was bombed by terrorists. I was physically uninjured, but I still haven’t forgotten what I saw and felt that day. My account of the day, which I wrote a week later, is at mikebroberts.com/2005/07/17/m...

What’s the best episode of television you’ve ever watched?

Happy Pride 🌈 In our latest blog post, @vcarl.com shares a powerful reflection on open source and identity: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm... We're spotlighting LGBTQ voices in the Node.js community. Got a story to share? Submit a PR: github.com/nodejs/nodej...

schadenfreudescrolling

Holy f’ing wow. A shock election result that I’m happy about. Been a while. Allowing myself a celebratory beverage.

Really enjoying the public access vibe(compliment) from @hellgatenyc.com live stream!!

cuomo’s campaign slogan

Hey NYC friends…

Sitting in an Irish bar in Manhattan, and it's late Monday afternoon. I started with Guinness but didn't want a second yet. Instead I tried the newish Guinness 0.0 Non Alcoholic. And ... it's good. A little sweeter, but apart from that the mouth feel is spot on. NA beers really have turned a corner.

Today I have entered my early late forties but am also, surprisingly, back in my prime(s)

My bad everyone

Is this real? I take everything back. The internet is good again. www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...