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@tristantimblin.dev

engineer at aws.amazon.com living in beautiful us-west-1 I'm on Germ DM πŸ”‘ https://ger.mx/A2UX9tCeewVZsCXWIE_olnLLyM_cEKapHn_jjH9eGUWH#did:plc:xius3nfxhfc3qqb65lj5sibu

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Latest posts by Tristan @tristantimblin.dev

Catching me from breaking cloud formation rollbacks alone

26.02.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Infrastructure as code has been my best quality of life improvement with AI coding. Have probably saved more time elsewhere, but infra is now best practice and painless

26.02.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Really cool project turning NYC maps isometric cannoneyed.com/projects/iso...

24.01.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - tatimblin/aptitude: Validate ai agent behavior in a codebase Validate ai agent behavior in a codebase. Contribute to tatimblin/aptitude development by creating an account on GitHub.

I wrote a test harness for claude code. It lets you assert on its behavior to gain confidence it’s doing what you want. github.com/tatimblin/ap...

23.01.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Verizon wrapped dropped πŸŽ‰ a thinly veiled ad

22.01.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was photos of her house

15.01.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dang new 52” model just dropped at CES

10.01.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Next model up Vincent Vend Gogh 4.6

18.12.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Literally expanded my context window

11.12.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Upgrading to a 43” monitor

05.12.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AWS Site-to-Site VPN and eero make remote connectivity for distributed sites simpler | Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working withΒ eero to make it simpler and more convenient for organizations to establish secure connectivity between their remote sites and AWS in just a few clicks. The in...

A vpn solution I worked on that brings your office closer to your compute, built-in to your router. Imagine a distributed workplace off the public internet aws.amazon.com/blogs/networ...

21.11.2025 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

08.09.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 54006 πŸ” 9371 πŸ’¬ 961 πŸ“Œ 543

I hope cognition open sources arc now

04.09.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Changan’s announcement of a solid state battery EV with 932 miles range would more than solve range anxiety. We could see EVs in the future settle on a sweet spot for battery capacity/size

28.08.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Effect is overlapped perfectly on an iPhone 16 screen

20.08.2025 00:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Qlock - A JavaScript Quine Clock Displays the current time in a seven-segment style, embedded within its own JavaScript source code. (321 bytes)

You may already be aware, but a computer program that outputs its source code as its output is called a quine.

One of my favourites: aem1k.com/qlock/

04.08.2025 09:04 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Friendly Introduction to SVG β€’ Josh W. Comeau SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨

πŸ“ I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. πŸ˜„

Check it out:

21.07.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 372 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 13
A group of handdrawn fish.

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧑 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

24.07.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 2316 πŸ” 1208 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 226

Just saw on your museum, I did the same program

21.07.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love that the demo still has one ai image after enabling the feature. Sets accurate expectations and still shows off the usefulness

21.07.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kiro The AI IDE for prototype to production

Introducing Kiro - I've been testing it out for a while. It's truly a game changer.

Spec-driven development and agent hooks are a new paradigm in AI-assisted development. Check it out! πŸ‘»

kiro.dev

14.07.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to see the SLA you had them write for their hamsters

18.07.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Knowing aws teams you’ll be in very soon!

18.07.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A cool thing about kiro is state lives in md files in your repo. You first use it to generate a tech spec and then it can read and execute off of that. This is especially useful for editing specs in flight or collaborating on tasks from the same spec with teammates

18.07.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I have it personally and at work. Happy to let you try it out through my personal if you’d like

18.07.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the point of the significant section dedicated to teaching you about planets on the product page?

10.07.2025 21:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tesla robotaxi incidents spark confusion and concerns in Austin Two weeks into Tesla’s invite-only ride-hailing service, CEO Elon Musk’s die-hard fans are amazed, but it’s not clear anyone else is.

Tesla's robotaxi has nobody in the driver seat. The company pulled this off by "each car [having] a company employee in the front passenger seat" instead... Β πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

06.07.2025 03:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With this they should be getting a 402 Payment Required

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

05.07.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love the pointing out that the contract of content for traffic was broken

05.07.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0