General geekery. All my opinions are my own.

Joined January 2009
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Over the last year or so, IT infra people have been asked (ordered?) to deploy LLM-backed agentic features. Why not extend our old friend the OSI 7 Layer model - up into this brave new world? agenticwrestl.ing/agentic_os…

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4 May 2023
Oklahoma plans to kill Richard Glossip on May 18. The state's own attorney general has said that this would be a "grave injustice," but other people in Oklahoma are determined to go ahead and kill him. Sound crazy? Keep reading; it gets crazier.
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‘This song sucks’: Nick Cave responds to ChatGPT song written in style of Nick Cave theguardian.com/music/2023/j… It's a bad Nick Cave song, but better-than-average Nickelback lyrics. So that's something.
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So excited to announce Amplify Studio. I’m so, so proud to be a part of this team ❤️ With Amplify Studio you can quickly go from a designer’s vision to a full stack, cloud connected app that scales with your needs.
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Are you using @AWSAmplify for building a Flutter or React Native app? Tell me what you are using it for!
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Customers can now use AWS Amplify to seamlessly integrate in-app messaging capabilities in their applications! ✉️📲 Create rich, targeted campaigns and display personalized, contextual messages to help drive user engagement with little to no code changes in your application 🔥
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@AWSAmplify now has a dev preview of In-App Messaging! 📲 With the Amplify JS library, devs write code not campaigns 📩 Drive user engagement with banners 📤 Personalized messages for user segments via AWS Pinpoint Learn more 👉 go.aws/3nN6cNQ
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I'm SO EXCITED to finally share these @AWSAmplify extensibility features with the world! AWS Amplify ❤️AWS CDK. Leverage the full depth and breath of 175 AWS Services with your Amplify app.
🚀 @AWSAmplify pre:Invent LAUNCH WEEK starting 11/15 Mon 9a - 🆕 Override Amplify resources w/ CDK Tue 2p - 🆕 Custom AWS resources w/ CDK Wed 11a - Add Command hooks Thu 3p - 🆕 Admin UI file storage Fri 3p - Exporting an Amplify project Join us at twitch.tv/aws!
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Have you used Amplify's <Authenticator> and found it lacking? Or needed to customize/replace it to meet your needs? Reply or DM me with your use-case so I can help make it a better experience 🙏
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Searching for last minute candy?! Head to our documentation to see how you can customize icons for location search! go.aws/3mqYUif Have a great Halloweekend! 🎃 👻
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23 Oct 2021
Noticed a toxic pattern: 1. Write "why I'm quitting X" 2. Get followers 3. Repeat vague "why X was terrible anecdotes" & seem credible 4. Say personal/hateful things about individuals 5. Delete #4 tweets 6. Keep saying issues are w/ X 7. Repeat 4-6 Dont enable these people
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BIG news for BIG files! Our JS library now supports Resumable Uploads to S3 via our Storage category. Elegantly handle uploads over unreliable networks with Amplify. Check out our blog for more details: go.aws/3nlaivb
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13 Oct 2021
Hands up who'd love to see type-aware operator overloading in @typescript? let p1 = <Point>{x: 2, y: 4} let p2 = <Point>{x: 1, y: 3} let p3 = p1 p2 // {x: 3, y:7} Any reason this can't can be transpiled into a JS fx?
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Want a sneak peek of the largest GraphQL update ever made in @AWSAmplify? 🔐 deny-by-default authorization 🔗 enhanced relational modeling 😍 easier setup DX 🔎 better search & per-user aggregations ⏭ pipeline resolvers Check out the developer preview: github.com/aws-amplify/ampli…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) #AmplifyHosting is still actively hiring both Front-End Engineer and Software Development Engineer roles of all levels. Please reach out to me or Samuel Nimako-Mensah if you're interested in learning more! #amazon #aws #hiring lnkd.in/ghbQrryG

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26 Sep 2021
If you ever tried or thought about trying PHP Serverless (AWS Lambda) and gave up, why did you give up? What could be improved to make you try again? [retweets appreciated!] #php #serverless #lambda #bref
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We want to take a moment to thank all of our amazing open-source contributors! Huge congratulations to github.com/zacharyrogers1 for their first accepted @AWSAmplify PR. github.com/aws-amplify/ampli…

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