Tech is wild. Within the last year I was called "not technical enough" and a "principal engineer." Don't let the labels get you down and keep on going! It's all arbitrary and made up anyway.

So I'm at a work on site...only one of two women here and someone or someones aren't putting the toilet seat down. 👎🏻 If you stand to pee please put the seat down when done. 🙏🏻

Don’t confuse movement with progress.

The second video in my Coding Just For Fun series is up! I'm continuing on with Conway's Game of Life by adding better code organization and other improvements. #python #code youtu.be/5qly7GQa_ak

This was a good read. I hope companies that aren't great at remote work will see the parallels and reconsider their approach especially if they want to get into the autonomous AI agents game.

This might be the start of something huge. 😎

Can't believe it's been 24 years already. I ❤️ NY.

Glad I no longer work for AppleCare and thus don't have anxiety around the Apple event. 😀

Join me and other speakers for an event focused on AI tech. Will be a good time! 🗓️ Sept 11th, 2025 📌 AWS PDX office, 1320 SW Broadway ste 400 🚀 RSVP: luma.com/hqd8qs4x

An insightful angle that I hope startup founders read and consider.

Using the Q CLI to search CloudTrail logs = 🔥. Found what I needed in a matter of seconds! 🙌🏻

The final game in Hillsboro ballpark. 🧢⚾ Hops lost 11-1 with the short stop pitching towards the end. 😅

What an amazing week in Seattle at the AWS Heroes Summit! Heroes- you're an inspiring group, who uplift and mentor so many in your communities, while also pushing for innovation out of AWS. Thank you for all that you do, and a special shout-out to the newest Heroes🙏👏

The eternal question as we progress through our careers "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Here's a lightweight decision framework I made up for myself...maybe it'll be helpful to you.

This will be the shortest flight I’ve taken in a long time. #pdxcarpet Excited for the #AWSHero Summit and that I get to stay in Cascadia! 🌲

How has no one opened a dispensary on Cannon Beach named Cannabis Beach?

Counting down the days! So excited to join fellow AWS Heroes next week for an exclusive leadership summit. West Coast, here I come! #AWSHeroesSummit 🛫 ✈️

Just registered to take the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification exam. 😊 Before the serverless folks ask, I'm actually pretty excited about adding a new skill-set to my toolkit. 🚀

How to upset a group of yinzers = send them this video. #minutesFromTheMall

Don't forget to have fun. None of this really matters.

This is especially concerning given the current "leadership" of the United States. Hoping for calm seas and clear skies soon for the island.

PFAS is the lead paint of our generation. Same pattern - ubiquitous in daily life, known health risks, slow regulatory response. We never seem to learn from these mistakes.

“Trust is like the air we breathe – when it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.”

Some folks in the tech industry have never seen the 1999 Disney Channel movie "Smart House" and it shows. 🫠

Life is short! ⏳ Live it authentically and do what makes you happy. ⚡

Every product team talks a big game about their future-facing roadmap. But ask to compare last year's roadmap to last year's releases, and they'll mutter some excuses. Promising the world is easy; delivering on promises is the challenge. OpenAI promised AGI, and delivered an incremental update.

Books: the original distraction-free reading experience. No notifications, no auto-play videos, no "you might also like" suggestions. Just you and the words 📖

A thread worthy of reading. 🧵

I reviewed Time Flies for @theguardian.com 🪰 @panic.com @playables.net www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

One thing I've learned in my career: the deeper you work in backend systems and infrastructure, the more your role evolves into storytelling and advocacy.

Job interviews getting real weird. 🫠

All because they don’t trust themselves to book the Four Seasons.

I had kiro auto generate steering docs for my silly little side project. Surprisingly, I didn't have to make too many changes. 😎 Now kiro has more context in every prompt I write and major bonus is it's also excellent documentation for humans to read. 👻 github.com/deeheber/wea...

I will not get an an argument with a man in tech about how serverless is a spectrum today. I will not get an an argument with a man in tech about how serverless is a spectrum today. Sometimes ya gotta choose peace over being "right."

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

just published a blog post: "GitHub Actions + AWS CodeBuild – the ultimate guide for container nerds" includes: – how runs-on works behind the scenes – ways to accidentally spin up a 72xlarge instance 😬 – the joys of debugging $HOME in a container garbe.io/blog/2025/07... #listentotheheroes

Recently noticed that my AWS OnAir segment at re:Inforce made it to the YouTube. ❤️ Check it out 👉🏻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fe0... 📺

Pictures don't do it justice, but here's a small selection from my recent trip to Yellowstone National Park. 🌲

Blown away by your response to Kiro. 100k+ joined our preview in week one, more than we expected. We've added a waitlist. To those waiting – thank you for your patience. Using Kiro? Your feedback means everything. Read the full update on our blog: bit.ly/4o31OHE

uh…hunter biden for president?

Real-time, decentralized social apps — without running a single server. Here’s how to build and deploy an atproto app on Cloudflare Workers. blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-a...

We renewed our season tickets for 2026. Stoked for the new stadium and let's go Hillsboro Hops! ⚾

This is a long read and it’s really, really good. Dive in, it’s worth it

I didn't even realize replit was "a vibe coding platform" and ppl used it in prod. 😬 Historically I've used it for a beginning coder workshops for a job I had at a bootcamp years ago. It seems they've rebranded and disaster ensued. 😬😬😬 www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/07/...

"Your masterpiece won't emerge from your mind fully formed like Athena from Zeus's head. It will emerge from your willingness to start badly and improve steadily." maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-...

I got into an AWS keynote! 🙌🏻 What an exciting career milestone. ⚡ Check it out! 📺 youtu.be/2890bEb61qQ?...

Super bummed to see this news. 😞 I recall visiting the lodge on the North Rim as a kid and it was the best way to experience the Grand Canyon as the South Rim is usually crowded. Hopefully they rebuild. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Today I had fun refactoring and adding the ability to delete old likes to my blue sky deleter script. 💙 Feel free fork and use it on your account! 🦋 github.com/deeheber/blu...

AWS just released a new AI Code Editor. I am super happy they didn't name yet another thing "Amazon Q." 🎉 I've been testing it out for a while now and appreciate the spec driven development. 👉🏻 More details kiro.dev 👻 Full announcement post kiro.dev/blog/introdu...