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Niall Connaughton

@nconnaughton

Software engineer @ AWS Lambda. I love wine, hiking, photography. Fake it till you make it dad. Opinions mine. Posts may contain traces of sarcasm. 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸

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I don’t know what question “a four door Aston Martin touring car” is the answer to, but it’s an interesting question nonetheless.

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Who remembers this moment in Prince of Persia (1989) where a magic mirror suddenly blocks the hero's path (and what happens afterward)? This moment was actually never planned to be in the game. My original vision was a game with lots of traps, but NO enemies... (1/10)

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The Olympic Lead and Bouldering climbing is amazing. It’s real-time debugging as a sport, under extreme physical stress. Even just watching it makes my hands and feet sweat!

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One of the best things about parenting is all the extra hours it gives you in a day, that you didn’t even know you were missing. 12am, 3am, 5am…

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Working on a project that’s still running and doing something nothing else can do, 47 years later is a dream for software engineers.

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Someone should invent bandaids with post-it note adhesive for use with vaccinations, so the process of removing the bandaid isn’t 10x more painful than the injection.

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Whoever designed Seattle’s garbage bins so they fall on their face at the slightest nudge… I hope you’re pleased with yourself.

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Yo Qantas Qantas Airways USA when are you going to do the Sydney/Seattle direct flights you keep talking about? Getting tired of Delta repeatedly rescheduling our connecting flights and dumping us into layover black holes.

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I’ve made an important scientific discovery. If you eat dinner and then cake, you have room for both because the cake goes into the cake stomach. But if you eat cake and then dinner, you are too full because the cake went into the dinner stomach.

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Super excited to have Amazon Aurora DSQL out in the world. Its our new serverless, Postgres-compatible, multi-region active-active, horizontally-scalable SQL database.

Super excited to have Amazon Aurora DSQL out in the world. Its our new serverless, Postgres-compatible, multi-region active-active, horizontally-scalable SQL database.