New blog post 🚀 I built an AI agent that monitors your dream companies for open roles and emails you the results. Open source if you want to try it.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

The incomparable Brandi Carlile performing America The Beautiful at the Super Bowl.

I love Green Day so much and I’m so very happy they performed‘American Idiot’ because, well…you know… 😁

New PSA by the courageous Epstein survivors. This is must watch:

Started playing around with meshtastic.org as a way to have alternative communication should something like the Cascadia earthquake happen. Turns out, it's a fun hobby that feels like being in a chat room in the 90s. 😆

Just finished week 1 at Aspira as a Senior DevOps Engineer. They build software for parks and recreation agencies - campground reservations, park admissions, hunting and fishing licenses etc. Looking forward to what's ahead. 🚀

Thinking of my AWS friends today...both those who were laid off and those whom survived. It isn't easy either way. Please let me know if there's anything that I as an individual can do to help all of you folks who many times helped me. No ask is too big. 💛

As a former teacher seizures are scary to deal with especially if untrained. It is terrifying and unsurprising that basic medical care isn’t part of ICE training. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

I built a template for deploying Strands agents on AWS because I got tired of spending days setting up infrastructure. Local testing, observability, CI/CD - it's all there. Click "Use this template" and you're done.

Anyone else watching the guy climb the skyscraper on live TV without ropes? 😅

You can be a patriot for the land while still hating the government.

Upgraded my e-reader + note taking tablet, and I do not regret it! I wish e-ink was more mainstream because beautiful displays plus long battery life = 💚 shop.boox.com/products/not...

Alright, I'll admit it, I'm a booster now. Here's 14 ways to supercharge your workflow with AI bell.bz/14-ways-to-s...

Denmark, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 99% of the Epstein files that are missing.

Buckle up y'all, private equity is buying law firms and looking to make this legal across more states. 😶 www.tiktok.com/@slothotho/v...

Food for thought.

Nice! My personal website is built with Astro and deployed via Cloudflare already. 😎

I quit Facebook in 2020 after someone spread misinformation about Portland without ever going there. I lived there. Didn't matter. Now I use social media mindfully: focus on real connections, share what might help others. Not chasing engagement.

The chai flight. 🧡

Larry the Cat, Chief Mouser at Downing Street, London, turns 19. tribune.com.pk/story/258691...

Presented without comment. 😶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IrM...

A recipe to make the world hate AI: 1 part apocalyptic predictions 1 part bias 1 part stealing art 1000 parts hype Mix during political and economic turbulence and serve. I spent a year getting good at these tools. Here's what I learned about where we are today with #AI.

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.

Especially when eaten with a knife and fork.

Hot take 🔥: engineers who "just want to write code" are going to struggle. AI agents are writing code now, some autonomously. But they can't make architectural decisions or own what ships. Engineers who thrive will guide these tools, use strong CI/CD to validate fast, and stay accountable. ✨

Noticing a new trend - Unsolicited email pitching a job opening from a recruiter or hiring manager - I respond I am interested in having a conversation - No reply Welcome to job hunting in 2026 🙃.

I filled out the 2026 @Answers4AWS survey. You should too! answersforaws.com/survey/ #aws

It's surprisingly not raining today, so I took a nice walk to a coffee shop about a mile away from my house. ☕ Looking forward to the summer and seeing the sun again soon. 🌞 Until then I'll be here with my SAD lamp and vitamin D pills. 😀

Excellent insights from Ben Kehoe (@ben.kehoe.io) via Gunnar's (@gunnargrosch.com ) summary with the full talk video in embedded. I would encourage you to have a read and watch the talk. builder.aws.com/content/37A0...

A good year can also be a hard year. 😀

Not all heroes wear capes.

Ride TriMet buses, MAX and Portland Streetcar free after 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve! 🎉 🚉 MAX Blue, Green, Orange and Yellow Line trains will operate two to three hours later into the service day than usual and arrive at stations every 30 minutes 🔵 🟢 🟠 🟡

I’m not unemployed, I’m micro-retired! 🙃

Reminder to join us in one hour for the last @believeinsls.bsky.social live stream of the year featuring me discussing "AWS Anti-Patterns that will cost you later." If you have to miss it, it will be recorded and uploaded to the BIS YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1P...

New city flag = 💚

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

Reminder to join us on Monday for the last BIS live stream of the year featuring me discussing "AWS Anti-Patterns that will cost you later." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1P...

Job hunting in 2025: I'm joining a video call recruiter screen that 50/50 I thought might be a scam. Their camera is off, so I kept mine off. They ask me to turn on my camera and don't turn on theirs. Weird. 🙃

Working through my re:Invent backlog. Craig Howard's postmortem on the October DynamoDB outage is excellent - honest breakdown of what went wrong and solid lessons learned. Highly relatable as someone who works on invisible infrastructure that only gets noticed when it breaks. youtu.be/YZUNNzLDWb8

My take: automate it anyway Maybe it's my engineering brain, but I've always been team "work smarter not harder." 🔥

Join us next week for the last BIS stream of the year featuring me discussing "AWS Anti-Patterns That Will Cost You Later." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1P...

BREAKING: John Cena has retired from professional wrestling after learning, to his disgust, that the sport was rigged

I left my job at Squarespace in 2016 and still have an uncanny ability to spot a Squarespace site. 🙃

Amidst all of the re:Invent chaos, I forgot to mention that I had a tiny part in AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote. Check it out and thanks to the team who made this possible! www.youtube.com/live/rpsh_UB...

This was fun! Make your own AWS pokemon card from the link below. cards.caylent.com/share/4238d0...

goose is migrating to a new home 🎉 Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have founded the Agentic AI Foundation This brings together goose, MCP, and AGENTS․md under the Linux Foundation. Time to fly in formation. The flock just got a lot bigger. block.xyz/inside/block...

This is some wild stuff. 🤯 youtu.be/RQfW7eQsXqk?...

I've watched people I mentored surpass me in title, salary, and technical skills. And I consider that one of my biggest career wins. 🏆

quick appreciation post for @farrah.bsky.social. I just got back from @awscloud.bsky.social re:Invent. I’d never been before & I was NOT ready for how much event I was in for. massive despite the scale, Farrah made it feel like a cozy event. she did an incredible job for the community this week 💜