I was uploading a 2GB file to S3, and was thinking about the difference in speeds I have experienced. I grew up with a 2400 baud modem. Eventually we had a 28,800 shared over RAS with the other computers in the house. I remember watching an individual image and seeing it come in

Stephen J. Barr We probably had the moat complex setup in all of Montgomery County. Our own Class C IP range, multiple phone lines, DNS, HTTP, POP3, and 4 or 5 PCs.

We need to aggressively pursue technologies & policies to counter the risk of entering a post-epistemic world. RIP Daniel Dennett

Talent and motivation are entangled. Talent is, in part, the amount of accomplishment per hour. Motivation is the willingness to put in the hours.

If you are interested in pulling your hair out, try navigating Meta Business Suite.

I ported some code from the Messages API (using AnthropicBedrock) to the AWS Converse API. I then put the diff into Sonnet 3.5 and asked it to write a quick blog post summarizing the necessary changes. It's a good reference. claude.site/artifacts/f49d…

🆕 AWS Made Easy Ep 117 drops today, 1pm PT! 🚀 Join Rahul Subramaniam and Stephen J. Barr for the latest on #AWS cost optimization and #GenAI: • Amazon RDS MySQL Extended Support • Bedrock Knowledge Bases with Llama Models • GitHub Action with Bedrock Agent for PR analysis •

In today's AWS Made Easy, we will be talking about Extended Support Costs for RDS MySQL. If your RDS is old enough, you are AUTOMATICALLY enrolled in extended support, and the costs are substantial! CloudFix has automation which will alert you to eligible RDS clusters before this

AWS Cost Optimization News, Mem0 + Neo4j Demo, AWS Made Easy #117 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

In today's AWS Made Easy, we are talking about mem0 and the Neo4j graph-based memory! This is awesome technology and you should definitely check it out. Don't miss our previous interview with Taranjeet, co-founder of Mem0: youtube.com/watch?v=ktupwN…

The ClickUp API does not officially support adding files to custom fields. It's really easy to implement: 1 - Get the ID of the custom field in question. 2 - Use the Create Task Attachment API endpoint clickup.com/api/developer-… with 2 extra parameters. {'hidden' : true,

AI-powered workouts are a blast. But, be careful when you say "make sure that I burn a substantial amount of calories" - Claude will hold you to it!

Tune in now to see myself, Darko Mesaroš 💙 💛 🇪🇺 , and Rohini Gaonkar on twitch.tv/aws - I am going to show using AI to make personalized agents!

Claude, make this script run in parallel.

At the Amazon Spheres. Always impressive how relaxing it can be here.

Thanks Darko Mesaroš 💙 💛 🇪🇺 for making sure I double check before deleting important config files!

Most of my day today was making sure that water in my house only flows where I want it to. For the record, I want it to be in the pipes and flowing out of the fixtures and down the drain. Above the ceiling, behind the walls, and under the floor - not so great!