'you're a solutions architect? You mean you mix fancy drinks?'

TIL

I read this morning that Palantir stock spiked in value, which may have been auto-trading bots reading this headline and believing it to be real. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

“Honestly, what the fuck”

I will always stan LDAP.

@theguardian.com I’m a subscriber, using the iPad app (latest version). I’m still seeing World Cup content on my home page even though I’ve used the settings to try and hide it. I cannot tell you how little interest I have in football, even big international competitions.

Ok, but then how do I cook them? Some recipe this is.

New euphemism for AWS re:invent just dropped.

Just read a fascinating piece on how an AWS team applied random graph theory to redesign data center networks. Started with a Slack shout-out and a "spaghetti monster" of cables. Love when theoretical math meets real-world engineering at scale.

Hello! Calling all Americans/Canadians/Australians/everyone else who are not in my timezone who likes puzzly word games like Wordle and Connections. I made a game called Keywords and it is quite good fun. Give it a try - or please share it with someone who might like it!

Is that good

vim, emacs, pico, vscode, intellij, joe

If one of the tech arseholes named an AI or glorified speaker after me and that became the meaning of my name I would become the machine that hunted them down. Alexas, Claudes, Siris, you should get together and hatch a plan. We would all understand.

I discovered that my Green candidate won by 2 votes against Reform after 2 recounts. Don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count. So glad I made the effort.

There’s no specific date for this one, but *during* May 1961 Italian artist Piero Manzoni shat in some tins, so I think we can all agree that – precise or otherwise – this is a 65th anniversary that simply cannot go unmarked 🧵

If you see this, post a bird.

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

I would simply not have booked the mentally ill anti-semite.

The Artemis II mission was as awe inspiring as the Apollo program yesterday. Now fucking look at it.

Shots fired, Italy.

I don’t know who needs to know this, but Marks & Spencer extremely chocolatey hot cross buns are back in stock for the season

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

We’ve just published the video of @topper.me.uk's AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion. Watch now - awsuguk.org/our-videos/ #AWS #AI #Serverless #AWSCommunity #DevOps #EC2

I’d watch an anime of Dark City.

Ok team, I’ll be at @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social at the beginning of next month. Who else will I be seeing there?

“New thing”. lol.

Classic AI boosterism

The EU AI Act essentially demands this.

This used to happen in the early days of the dot com gold rush, but the thefts were mostly things like Cisco line cards, worth tens of thousands and easily smuggled out in a pocket.

Good morning!

Wed 14 Jan 2026, AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion 🎤 @topper.me.uk will cover what mattered, what didn’t, and what’s useful now vs later. Then - open discussion, so bring your questions + hot takes. www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even... #AWS #CloudComputing #DevOps #Serverless #AWSCommunity #AWSCloud

Honestly can’t tell what’s more stupid: football itself; FIFA inventing a “peace prize”; or the idea that tangerine hitler deserves it. This is the absolute fucking dumbest timeline. Brawndo for our crops next.

CMV: These are just Niknaks

Ok, @topper.me.uk here for the final AWS re:Invent keynote of the year. This one is Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and unusually it's just an hour long - which is probably for the best, because it's pretty late here in the UK.

Sorry, @topper.me.uk again. It's time for the Infrastructure Innovations keynote from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. In this keynote we usually expect to hear Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown talk about some of the impressive feats of engineering that keep this hyperscaler up and running.

I'm happy to share we have a fresh aws-vault release v7.8.0 including some cool features like custom endpoint URL, extended package support with NixOS, latest dep updates and others 🚀 Glad to see active #OSS community involvement and helping keeping the project active! github.com/ByteNess/aws...

"Agentic AI makes it cheaper for us to get to space". Sure, Jan.

Hello again! @topper.me.uk here reporting from the second AWS re:Invent keynote, this time given by Dr Swami Sivasubramanian. The keynote is titled "The Future of Agentic AI is Here" which might well mean we get less Sagemaker and other data content today, but let's see.

Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.

Amazon Quick appears to have way more to it than when I last looked. It's been rolled out across Amazon, and everyone's getting value from it apparently. The image I have is of Garman, standing over the rest of the business, pushing dogfood into everyone's face, one wobbly spoonful at a time

(Imagine being an AI model that's trained to moderate Reddit. The horrors you'd have to subject it to).

Right, @topper.me.uk here - it's AWS re:Invent keynote time! Today, CEO Matt Garman opens proceedings. I'll be covering it as best I can from here in the UK, where I'm grateful not to have been awake from 4am, and then crammed into a keynote theatre (or "theater" as they call it there).

Hello! @topper.me.uk here. It has been quiet of late hasn't it? Well, luckily for me, there's no algorithm to penalise that, and luckily for you it's AWS re:Invent time again, so you get to see a barrage of updates from me on the topic.

Satire is dead.

Surprising no one.

A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).

I wish the alternative to technology made by evil corporations was not technology made by deranged libertarians.