Love this hilarious, unhinged 'Sesame Street for adults' style video by Ashley Birch. youtu.be/h5SavjMFRLg?...

How dare Disney make Star Wars for adults.

Just found out I have been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program under the AI Engineering category! 🤖 Looking forward to rubbing shoulders with fellow AWS Builders 🤩 Thanks @jasondunn.bsky.social and team! #AWS #AWScommunity

My latest blog post breaks down the Saga pattern – a powerful way to maintain data consistency across services without relying on complex distributed transactions. Learn about choreography vs. orchestration, and how to implement both on AWS. #aws #architecture willdady.com/coordinating...

As a long-time Chrome user I recently made the switch to Firefox (on Mac). My main motivation for switching was the more "open" nature of the project. I think I am going to switch back. I've had issues where video calls simply don't work and I often get choppy video playback. Disappointing 😔

Someone needs to make a job search site targeting tech folks which aggregates other job sites but rewords job ads so the tech stack appears at the top! An LLM would make light work of that.

Trunk-ass birch

TIL if you type "the bus that couldn't slow down" intro IMDb it returns "Speed" 😂 #simpsons

Great to see AWS has now added a "stack refactoring" feature to CloudFormation! This should prevent the need to delete-then-import to move resources between stacks, which in my experience has always been a butt-clenching experience. #AWS #IaC #DevOps aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

✨New features✨ Foreman now expects to retrieve an array of zero-or-more jobs per-request to the control server (previously, zero-or-one). Also, it's now possible to configure maximum concurrent jobs! #rust #rustlang #opensource #oss github.com/willdady/for...

The Fantastic Four trailer is wild.

Finally got around to watching Skeleton Crew. A nice standalone story. I felt the pirate theme was a bit too "arrr matey" in parts but overall I'm a sucker for the "kids on bikes have adventure" genre.

✨New feature ✨ Foreman will now stop and remove Docker containers it manages when receiving a termination signal from the operating system. Container removal is also configurable via settings (defaults to `true`). #rust #rustlang #opensource #docker github.com/willdady/for...

✨ My latest blog post explores envelope encryption with AWS KMS, how it works and how it compares to AWS Secrets Manager. #aws #security #blog willdady.com/understandin...

✨New feature!✨ Foreman, will now clean-up (delete) stopped containers after a configurable timeout. At this stage foreman does not stop or remove containers when SIGINT or SIGTERM is received. This will likely be added next. #rust #rustlang github.com/willdady/for...

Why the heck have I not been using zoxide until now?! 🤡 #commandline

PSA 🚨 Don't forget to update the current year to 2025 in your public git repositories LICENSE.{txt,md} files! #git #github #opensource

I wonder if 2025 will be the year AWS adds Bun and/or Deno runtimes to Lambda natively? 🤔 #aws #serverless

Wow! Bun 1.2 has native built-in support for AWS S3 and a new SQL client supporting Postgres. youtu.be/uSzffuqfJQk?...

I enjoyed reading this article from Anthropic on various patterns used in building AI agents. I've read a few articles now saying that using LLM APIs directly VS frameworks like Langchain is preferred as abstraction added by the latter make things harder to debug. www.anthropic.com/research/bui...

Matt Berry touring the 'What We Do in the Shadows' set is the most Matt Berry thing ever. 🦇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVn...

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous

Poor doggo 🐶

My latest blog post discusses how to implement the token bucket algorithm for multi-tenant rate limiting on AWS! #aws #system-design willdady.com/rate-limitin...

I feel like I've been snoozing on Clippy for Rust. It's like the antithesis of the Rust compiler in that it gives you friendly suggestions on how to improve your code whereas the latter is constantly wacking you with a big stick. #rustlang #rust

In a recent episode of Silo, two main characters were both shot in the upper torso with arrows and now they seem to just be... walking it off.

This is a really great video on text rendering. I found the part about SDF fonts particularly interesting! youtu.be/qcMuyHzhvpI?...

Pretty cool there is now a 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 model. My 8GB model has been great as a home media server. 8GB is more than enough for my usage.

Hot take: In 2025, if you want to make a successful product as a sole engineer it needs to be open, free and self-hostable. Users should also be able to share artifacts created with said product freely. Only once you have traction should you worry about monetisation.

Foreman now supports 'labels' which get sent in requests to your control server. This makes it possible to deliver jobs only to matching agents, maintain discreet agent pools and discriminate on agent host features ✨ #rust #rustlang #opensource github.com/willdady/for...

I saw "I saw the TV glow". I wish I saw something else.

Welp. I'm dead.

I recently started a new open source project. Foreman is a Rust-based job scheduling agent which uses Docker as it's executor. Similar in spirit to CI agent but more generic. #rustlang #opensource #wip github.com/willdady/for...

I had pretty low expectations for 'The Outlaws' season 3 given how final the end of season 2 felt. Turns out it was great!

I like to think I can tolerate spicy food. That said, Buldak 2x spicy ain't mucking around 🥵🔥💀 I think I can now hear colour.

Not sure I love term "viral skeet"

Me leaving 2024 behind...

Million dollar dining idea: Print menus on actual paper and I'll just tell you what I want? 🤯

Urgh... is this year going to be forevvvver?

Hearing good things about Deepseek V3 Glad to see it's been added to openrouter.ai. Fast inference with quality approaching frontier models at a fraction of the cost seems like a win!

Juror #2 was an OK enough film. I'm more surprised to learn Clint Eastwood is NINETY FOUR years old! I thought George Miller and Ridley Scott were getting up there in age. It's wild to me that Hollywood green lights films like this where the director could keel over at any moment.

I think I'll stick with the cow...

Spending some quality time with my girls over the Xmas break. I forgot how good 'The Mitchell's VS the Machines' is.

TIL GitHub renders mermaid syntax fine for web but does NOT do so in the official GitHub app on mobile 🙄

Christmas calories don't count right?

In a dream, the children's television show Bluey appeared but my stupid brain forgot the name of the show and just named it Roofie 🤷

Carfool karaoke more like...

Having written code in many languages over my career, I find it funny that my most-starred repo on github is one written in Rust, a language at which I am n00bish at best. #rustlang #opensource github.com/willdady/emo...

The creator of the Phillip's head screwdriver must have had one hell of a noggin

Yum! 😏