The Temporal Dev Advocacy team is hiring in 1983.

There are email newsletters that post better quarterly revenues.

I’m very much liking the Gazetteer. Amusingly enough, I first learned about them from the side of a bus.

as @dinseaferno.bsky.social pointed out this is both a Skyrim loading tip and actually good advice for real world social skills

HEARTBREAKING: worst person you know makes a good point

Okay, cool, but right now every hyperscaler is looking at tens or hundreds of billions worth of “hole in their balance sheets” if OpenAI can’t pay for the ~$1.4 trillion they’ve committed to. And those hyperscalers are, y’know. In everyone’s retirement accounts.

The FBI has also subpoenaed Google for information about fixing a Workspaces issue, since it’s the only way they’ve been able to get a human at Google to talk to them.

Obviously it’s gonna take us well over a billion dollars to run some parking lots. Please send the wire.

I can hear @quinnypig.com reading this article to me. It’s uncanny. With dramatic pauses and everything www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/a...

Oh you’re late to a meeting? I’m not mad, I’m too busy endorsing you for “time management” on LinkedIn.

I have struck again.

If they don’t cripple it somehow, the “smallest screen on a Mac” is gonna blow out both my iPad Pro (which is twice the price) and my MacBook Pro. “A web browser and a terminal” is increasingly all I *really* need.

There I fixed it

At retail prices, they can charge $800 a second to customers using this at line rate.

AWS and OpenAI sign $38B deal. Now OpenAI is definitely too big to fail. www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws...

So Google and Amazon both made money on Anthropic while Microsoft lost a chunk of its ass on OpenAI?

I just facilitated a 160-person incident review AMA!

Huh. At least on macOS, less really is more.

The Duckbill guys (and gal!) have been great partners to my company and me personally. Cannot recommend them more highly. Also, speaking as a design partner on their upcoming Skyway platform, you're going to love what they're launching.

Good morning; I have something to show you. The Duckbill Group is now simply Duckbill. Duckbillhq.com

AWS: “I wonder who that’s for?”

i think one of more surreal moments in the last few weeks was seeing @steveklabnik.com's announcement be featured by @quinnypig.com in Last Week in AWS. like, i started that jj startup! we're not even on AWS at the moment!

Switching databases isn't something you do for fun—it's something you do when Redis costs spiral and your on-call engineers start updating their LinkedIn profiles. Webinar with Dragonfly's CEO on making the switch less terrifying: Nov 5, free. www.dragonflydb.io/events/in-me...

Pull Requests are for chumps. Submit Shove Demands.

AWS Resource Explorer supports 47 additional resource types AWS Resource Explorer can now find 47 more things you didn't know existed. Highlights: "comprehend:flywheel", "wisdom:content", and my favorite: "vpc-lattice:servicenetworkserviceassociation". Someone got paid to name these.

I'm at GitHub universe today and tomorrow, come find me and say hi! This is what I look like today.

I got to meet @pfrazee.com yesterday, which was lovely. I also got to meet a Jerry Chen who was not @jcsalterego.bsky.social, which was heartbreaking.

This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.

This isn't ‘'renting a server.' It's leasing access to a whole sprawling, capital-intensive, technically-capable system that must be just as available in Cairo as in Capetown, just as functional in Bangkok as Berlin. Particularly given the high stakes use cases of many who rely on Signal. 6/

That's a lot of Managed NAT Gateways

Of all the stupid reasons to get fired, “expense fraud” is arguably the dumbest.

Want to start a FinOps program? The secret first step: do almost nothing. Just measure everything and show people the numbers. Let the gentle, persistent shame of a public dashboard work its magic. You'll be amazed how quickly costs go down. #finops

I hope this email never finds you. I hope you’re free.

The more words in an incident report, the more embarrassed they are about what happened. And for this one… they kinda should be?

Introducing Amazon Prime In-home delivery at 40mph.

Even more exciting, DynamoDB is now available in us-east-1.

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

netflix is arguably one of the best aws operators and we paused changes for exactly this reason

Today's a fantastic day to make no configuration changes to your production environments. If something goes wonky, you'll go mad trying to figure out if it's the AWS issue (possibly reflected through a vendor of yours who uses them) vs. your own shitty, shitty code.

"Welcome to Xavier's home for Gifted Youngsters. What's your power?" "I'm 42 and can detect when AWS US-EAST-1 is down." "So can my refrigerator."

They named it "Aboon" which sounds like a sneeze, raised $17.5M, and somehow that's still more professional than how most companies handle 401(k) onboarding.

How many customers are they driving away by making them run the gauntlet of chatbots that cannot solve their problems?

It’s all gone a bit sideways on the south east distress way this morning. Seemingly, the driver swerved hard to avoid a NAT gateway exit toll fee… (for @quinnypig.com) #hpc #cloud

We all learned a few key numbers in case of emergency. For example, in case of fire, dial 0118 999 881 119 725 3.

Is it normal for a woman to eat an entire block of cheese in a single sitting? I don’t eat cheese so I don’t know, and my wife dared me to “ask the internet.”

If you thought crypto was a scam before, wait until Goldman Sachs gets IAM access.

I dunno how it works at Amazon, but AI has been shoved into every work product I use, over my objections. “Until AWS ships it it’s not real?” Please.

On the Duckbill Office Hours (duckbillgroup.com/officehours) and called the new Amazon Quick Suite thing "QuickSlap." It's the new Infinidash.

Almost like calling everything “Amazon Q” was a dumb idea.