Rory Mcllory is 90th out of 91st in terms of fairways hit in #TheMasters yet is 6 shots clear. I've just finished reading a book about the value of the short game... This is pretty convincing evidence. ⛳

In my latest online course, I cover the fundamental integration patterns you will see most often in #serverless applications.. And this isn't just point to point vs pub/sub. This course covers a range of different #patterns, and importantly, how you can actually use these patterns in #production.

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright. In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

Ever had a green CI/CD pipeline but your Lambda deploy is actually broken? Tests passed, but a configuration mistake means prod is dead. In this video you'll learn how to use Lambda Aliases/Versions & AWS Code Deploy to safely rollout new features youtu.be/gsLkVmkkOxc #serverless #aws #dotnet

The key to life is to approach every single person with expectation. Not cynicism, not anger, not division or biases. Approach every person with the expectation that they are good people who are full of love. Rowan Williams (slightly paraphrased) in this morning's Easter service.

Today in "that can't be real, right? oh crap, it's real."

"Solar panels in China are cheaper than a same-size piece of window glass. You can use panels as siding and fencing as if it’s a building material that just happens to produce some electricity The future is panels everywhere"[email protected] Thread: Solar Hockey Stick of Hope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

The issue with LLM writing is it breaks standard heuristics for deciding if something is worth spending time on

slowing down to write out a todo list longhand remains undefeated as both the best way not to lose track of things and as a tiny meditation on where I'm spending my energy and attention can't recommend it enough

Every time I see someone say 'a slide this length should have X slides I cry'. Arthur hitting the nail on the head here 👌

Whoever told you that is a prescriptivist idiot who probably has too much stuff on one slide. Slides are free. Slides offer a chance for a change in the audience's visual field, which brings their attention back. Slides should support each statement you're making, as you're making it.

The internet's greatest gift is also its greatest curse. Finding your people online is genuinely wonderful. But I wonder what we've quietly traded away in the process.... blog.jameseastham.co.uk/blog/2026-03...

Ive been trying to rebuild my journalling habit this year, even if it's just a sentence or two every morning. I'm not claiming it's a hack, or anything magical. But damn it certainly helps to clear your mind in a morning.

Still one of my favourite things to read every now and again. 'given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex' grugbrain.dev

Back on the golf course today for the first time in a while, can't wait! ⛳️

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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The Rust Foundation has joined Datadog's Open Source Program! We now have access to Datadog's unified observability platform to help keep the infrastructure powering the Rust ecosystem reliable and secure for developers worldwide. Thank you, Datadog 🦀 rustfoundation.org/media/rust-f...

Very much enjoyed this read @mariozechner.at 👏🏻 mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster www.404media.co/disneys-open...

The beginning of the end?

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

Cold starts are a problem in serverless you say......

Happy fibre day to me. Today is a good day.

Think about how you process messages. The classic background worker in .NET burns cash just idling, polling for work that might not exist. With Lambda, AWS handles the polling, your code only runs/reacts when messages land, so you just pay for actual processing. youtu.be/ES962zkbhVs #serverless #d

Operation disconnect from US big tech is well on its way 😍 business disconnected from GSuite, personal site moved to @scaleway.com . Slowly moving various apps away from Cloudflare. I'm also trying out MistralAI instead of Claude.

I really really wanted to try and like Mistral as an alternative to Claude/Codex. But man there UX is trash. Signed up for a pro account, lost my CLI access. And now it's seemingly impossible to get in touch with them 🤷

Weekend reading. 📚

All the money saved on burning tokens should be given directly to employees using their own brain.

Announcing the Zero Token architecture. Instead of burning AI tokens, you learn to think for yourself, and complete tasks using your brain.

I might even do some YouTube stuff on @scaleway.com . Fully European, and their offerings actually look great for building modern apps in the cloud. Containers, functions, queues, events, databases. It's all there. 👏🏻🇪🇺

I think the time to leave US hyperscalers behind is here. Just migrated my personal blog to @scaleway.com. Incredibly easy to sign up, get started, and deploy my app. All for €1 (0.87p) per month. And I did the whole thing sat on a train in 10 minutes. jameseastham.co.uk

A timely reminder from Vercel's terms and conditions. If the service is free, you are the product. If they really cared about their customers, this would be explicit when you sign up. Except it isn't, buried in the terms and conditions that none of us ever read. The enshittifcation continues....

Look mom! Another reason to stop using Vercel. vercel.com/legal/terms#... (Is this even legal?)

Yeah, sure, AI has made great strides and can be made to do some really cool things. But at what cost? No, I mean literally. How much is it really going to cost? ardalis.com/ai-benefits-... #AI

I would spend the last few decades building up renewable energy infrastructure to the point where fossil fuels were not needed at all. But that's just me!

Question to any of my followers who do a lot of #writing. What's your go to tool as a 'first pass' editor on any writing you are doing? Historically I've used Grammarly, and that seems to be rapidly heading towards enshittification. So what alternatives exist? I do most of my writing in Markdown.

It’s actually a great time to care about the craft. I don’t know if people realize this but you can actually write whatever you want into the prompt box. You can use the AI to get the function just right instead of making it generate crap as fast as possible.

This is interesting. I’ve seen software engineers I know about mention feeling driven to be incredibly productive all the time by these tools. A big part of burnout is job satisfaction, and I expect a lot of people won’t feel satisfied by babysitting the chatbots.

Can I +1,000,000 this. www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Built a custom class that hooks Lambda to API Gateway with a single snippet. Reusable abstractions, loops, conditionals. Writing infra code should feel like writing app code. I walked through it in a recent video, but wanted to share the approach here. #serverless #aws #dotnet youtu.be/sX3K1tIwYnw

The best solutions to software problems don't always come from software. When you're stuck on a novel problem, the instinct is to look at what others in the industry have done. What framework solves this? What pattern applies here? What cloud service should I use? #problemsolving #software #think

It's the beginning of history - and an era where we'll see thorough tests of the assumptions of the AI bubble as a result of the war in Iran and the economic and social chaos to follow. It's time to stop using the past as a guide to what happens next. www.wheresyoured.at/the-beginnin...

No, AI is not coming for your developer job, regardless of the nonsense the hype mongers are pushing. (I'm talking just about developer jobs—it obviously impacts other areas.) That's not to say the layoffs aren't real, but rather that the corporations are hiding normal corporate behavior behind 1/11

Based on their lawsuit filed against the DoD, Anthropic appears to be admitting that reports about its revenue and costs are fake, saying its revenue to date “exceeds $5bn” and training/inference “over $10bn.” Previous reports said $4.5bn. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I for one am certainly starting to struggle with the cognitive dissonance required to keep working with AI services. The split feeling of being almost required to use them out of fear of being left behind against the horror at the ethical concerns.

Who'd have thought it 🤷🏻 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The AWS CDK + .NET workflow is underrated. Defining infra in C# means you get real IDE support, compile-time checks, & can codify infra best practices in actual code. No more YAML, no more "magic incantations" IAM policies. Just .NET all the way down. youtu.be/sX3K1tIwYnw #serverless #aws #dotnet