The Fallout series on Prime is pretty darn good. Between it, The Last of Us, and the Halo series that I'm yet to watch, I'm looking forward to more video games coming to TV.

I recently switched to using Apple Maps solely based on the fact that its Car Play integration with both of our cars is silky smooth, while Google’s feels like an afterthought.

I imagine the opposite must be true for Android Auto.

Really enjoyed season 1 of 3 Body Problem on Netflix!

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Pretty clear the home of San Ti was Alpha Centauri. But ironically, I think Alpha Centauri is actually an example of a stable 3 body system.

This is the current AWS security bulletin regarding CVE-2024-3094 (reported malware in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the xz-utils source code archives).
aws.amazon.com/security/secur…

Seeing Saquon Barkley in the Eagles uniform definitely hurts. But as a Giants fan, I still wish him all the best - Saquon has been all class during his years with Big Blue.

A somewhat lighthearted blog post on redundancy, and the math behind it:
blog.joemag.dev/2024/01/the-ma…

Reliable DNS is table stakes for building reliable applications. Route53 and Nitro teams implement a lot of neat ideas to provide customers’ EC2 instances with reliable DNS, and I love seeing the teams talk about some of those details:

docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest…

I really love sports, but for some reason never really got into college sports. Still, it's super cool to see UW play in the college football championship game next week!

TIL, Yakima is a valid diversion site for SeaTac. Wonder why choose Yakima airport for a long distance wide-body plane, over some of the larger airports in the region?

If you've spent any time at Amazon, you've likely crossed paths with Laura! Not the least of the reasons is because Laura has successfully led some of the most complex and crosscutting initiatives in the history of the company.

Perhaps overly optimistic, but I’m looking forward to catching up on a bunch of interesting papers this winter break.

In the process, I also discovered that Fang hangs out in much more distinguished circles than me, as she apparently knows the authors on half of these papers!

Doom was the game of my childhood! But the thing that always stood out for me about the Doom series was its ability to get every bit out of hardware. I had an older 486, and it ran Doom games as well as the latest Pentiums.

I am so very excited for this EKS launch! This feature drastically simplifies using IAM roles with Pods in EKS, and my personal favorite, supports IAM role session tagging so you can reuse IAM roles across clusters with tag based access controls.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amaz…