George Alton

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Oh wow, ditched my linksys router today for a Ubiquiti Dream Router 7. It’s bloody brilliant

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.

Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Failed removing the bezel whilst keeping the old screen in tact. I probably should have read a manual, maybe the application of little bit of heat to soften the glue would've helped.

And I've just swapped the screen for the 4K version, which is brighter and better colours.

battery life is going to be worse, but most of the day it sits docked, and only comes out to play on evenings and weekends, so shouldn't compromise my usage too much.

Just upgraded to 48GB of RAM (the price on amazon for DDR4 Double the week I was buying, but picked some up from ebay).

Just bit the bullet and bought a P14s Gen 2 with a Ryzen 5850 for £270.

went down a rabbit hole last night of looking up old thinkpads to buy as a backup laptop (that's how I'm justifying this). T14 with an AMD Ryzen seems to be a reasonable choice.

Spent my evening watching go videos on go channel patterns. I love Python, but in 2016 I wish I’d made the choice to spend more time with go.

JIRA
JIRA Inhibits Real Alignment

AWS Service Reference Information now supports annotations for service actions - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Service Reference Information now supports annotations for service actions

Managing IAM Permissions just a officially a lot easier aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

This looks like most of what I need from the fluggo iam scraper.

Ashley Willis Don't Come Inside Until the Streetlights Are On I grew up in the '80s, where parenting often sounded like, "Don't come home until the sun goes down," or "Go dri...

If you’ve ever felt like asking for help would cost too much, this one’s for you.

yea we're propagating complexity an incredible pace, it'll be interesting to see the impacts of this and how we cope with our systems in the future

When really a lot of the challenge is to build better software platforms. AI should be a part of that, but the current approach to treating software as factory seems to risky to me.

The creation of lots of new LOC by AI seems to me to present a risk in the future that we're going to become over burdened and have a huge increase in cognitive load to deal with maintenance and refactoring of AI generated code.

Gonna post about AI

My thoughts on what I see a lot of AI doing in software engineering is creating many new LOC that should be handled by higher levels of abstraction or more comprehensive platform implementations.

In mine and I assume many peoples use cases, we can’t or don’t want to customize the Auth token.

I’m Specifically thinking about the propagation of the ‘sub’ claim from GitHub.

Not done this in a long time - #AWS Wishlist
Provide a way of Mapping of the An STS SourceIdentity from the incoming OIDC/SAML Authorization when vending a Cognito Role.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Just found the AWS cheat code URL that redirects ARNs to their console page.

This is what my go project was doing.

I got to learn a little go, no longer need to maintain hundreds of case statements to map resource types to urls. And I should get this out much quicker.

Everyone’s a winner!

ngl - I’m a little bit in love with golang

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Be still my beating heart! - legends! love this! Cheers David, and all :)

yeeaa -- just trying to find ways around having to manually upload the hooks and pass so many URI parameters around

Was just prepping a PR for rain to allow me to reduce some of complexity in CI for delivering hooks across the org/regions

At the point I was testing the uri as s3://macjc94denw8u.mrap/rules.guard but I did run some tests with MRAP ARN. I'll try and get some time tomorrow to get some more data.

best I can do at the moment

At runtime the hook goes fails complaining about the format of the S3 URL / Bucket Name, If I can find my test I'll post it

This does not mean that execs should never be im the details!!

"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!

You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!

I've tried using MRAPs with CloudFront and CloudFormation now but it hasn't worked to solve multi region stuff.