Autumn 🍁 Cycling

#PelikanHub2025 A gathering of fountain pen nerds.

Market's in India are a different kind of beast.

I am loving the Nothing Phone 3A's Essential Space feature. It a rare mobile company that has found real use of AI and their marketing isn't "in your face". It's actually quite useful. Hope they launch a web application for it soon.

Taking a ride on the homegrown rolling stock of Vande Bharat trains. Thanks to the broad gauge network, this is a wide body train with 3+2 seating configuration.

Back in India for a long due vacation. Greeted by a lovely sunset on the day of arrival. #beauty-in-chaos

Had the opportunity to visit China from work. Have to say, I was positively surprised of what I saw. Pictures from Shanghai.

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

Stop 👏 taking 👏 AI 👏 advice 👏 from 👏 AI 👏 CEOs.

I am slowly transitioning into Linux as daily driver. I am pretty comfortable at this point with most app replacements, but I can't find a drop in replacement for powerpoint. Is there a software you like more than Libre Impress? both open source / paid software are of interest.

Do we have a desktop (linux based) or a web client that works similar to the app OpenVibe? I would like to have a place where I can keep up with all ATProto websites on desktop at one place. Any tips?

Just saw announcements by Framework. Their announcement of a 4.5 liter desktop with AMD AI chips is sick! Really happy to see the price points but I wish the RAMs were upgradable.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Since awscommunity.social is scheduled to retire end of February, I have moved my Mastodon account to hackyderm server. A big thank to @Ric@mastodon.squarecows.com who provided us with a space for the AWS community!

Sunday was a pretty foggy. A nice day to hop on the bike and buy some Fresh milk directly from a dairy farm just at the outskirts of Partille

I feel good that abandoned a platform run by a facist. I still have the account to preserve the handle, but I guess its time to get rid of it.

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TIL - Linux TTY How the heck I missed it so far!

As the new OSS Developer Advocate for AWS CDK, I was hired to help evolve the way AWS engages with the CDK community. Today, we're proposing to form a CDK Contributor Council as a first step in that evolution. github.com/aws/aws-cdk-...

Wish you all a very happy new year folks! Hope to interact with you all more this year. I have officially dumped all other platforms

Just did a 2024 review - www.anuragkale.com/2024/12/29/2...

A brilliant story and masterful execution. Here’s a little pre Christmas video for you - https://youtu.be/nWbESISCdgA?si=EplV6rQBSeSscfT4

If you are using #AWS or just interested in solid technical advice, you should listen to the Heroes: bsky.app/profile/did:... #listentotheheroes

Today's third blog post on Aurora DSQL: this time looking at the write and commit path, and how conflicts are detected and handled: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

Amazing for the AWS Heroes to get a shoutout by Werner Vogels "Share your lessons" 💜

Listing to @werner.social is an event I look forward to with anticipation. As Ant says, he is all about helping people like me to shed our egos and be more humble as technicians. I have learned a deal on how to frame the problems effectively by learning from his experience.

“Simplicity requires discipline” @werner.social might just have just convinced me to shed my laziness today.

Always good to discuss data architecture with @ianuragkale.bsky.social

@werner.social and Linkin Park, I can’t ask for more!

Say 👋 to the AWS Heroes seating for Werner’s keynote #awsreinvent

Who's gonna tell the AWS keynote writers that more realistic questions that enterprises are asking today sounds like - 'Do we have any dataset that we can use for this question?' rather than 'Where is the dataset that we can use for this question?' #humor #datablackhole

FWIW, today's Swami's keynote should have been named 'Bedrock Keynote'. That aside, I am liking that there's a service like Amazon Bedrock and how it’s making generative AI both safe and accessible. Bedrock has grown into a GIANT of a service!

I've been vocal about the need for an improved user experience in AWS's data ecosystem, so I was excited to hear Matt Garman's announcement of a unified end-to-end experience! However, categorizing this under the 'SageMaker' label is something I am struggling with.

Refreshing to see that AWS is working on providing tools to make GenAI safe and accurate. A great bunch of tools launced to reduce and address GenAI Hallucinations Finally there’s a vendor that is not just launching bigger and bigger models but to make existing ones truly usable. #AWSReinvent24

I want a database that has it all...

AWS Keynote from Matt Garman confirms that they will focus on Apache Iceberg as a a core managed primtive for S3. They launched two focused S3 SKU’s. Exciting times for Open Table Formats! #awsreinvent2024 #awscommunity

heyyy I’m on the big tv 😂

Breaking bad vibes - Blue Diamond village near Las Vegas

Mid day 1 (15:02 PST) at AWS Reinvent and I have managed to avoid any GenAI references so far. Let’s see how long I can go without a session not mentioning GenAI.

On my way to Reinvent to meet all AWS friends!

After a lengthy customs process, the new Linkin Park Record is finally here! Just the thing I needed before I leave for the craziness of Las Vegas and Reinvent

Two of my favourite things in one package!

NEW: Application Signals automatically instruments your Lambda functions using enhanced AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. CW Application Signals was introduced last year for and now it comes to Lambda (Python and Node.js). We have metrics and traces options, people! aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tr...

📔"Speak Effectively At Conferences: How to Plan, Practice, and Perform" Thrilled to unveil the Title & Cover (draft) of my upcoming book. #TheSpeakerBook is for anyone to understand the nuances of conferences & deliver compelling talks! ETA - February 2025 #Speaking #AWS #Speakers #Serverless

Excited to introduce the inaugural Now Go Build CTO Fellows, in partnership with @TechToTheRescue. These tech leaders are going above and beyond to innovate and make a big impact in disaster management and climate resilience. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/11/intr...

Loving this new song

Brings back a lot of memories! Loving the renewal of Linkin Park!

Karlatornet, the tallest building in Scandinavia at golden hour. In the foreground a Polestar 2 car (my previous employer)

Friends, I’ve been trying to follow you back (people I know from X) with no luck. One moment I am following you, next moment I am not. I’ve tried a few ways, so you might see a few notifications. I’ll try again tomorrow or from a computer

Hello new and old followers! Sometimes I make VS Code themes: - There’s Night Owl (most used, good for colorblindness) - Then a friend asked for a theme for people who are in bed by 7pm - and a Fortnite theme with chaos and chickens Enjoy!