Poster for the HBO Original A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. A young knight in a brown cloak stands on a grassy hill beneath a large tree, looking down at a bald boy in a matching cloak. A shield with a tree emblem rests nearby, and a medieval camp with tents stretches across the valley below. The sky is pale and calm. Text reads “A New Game of Thrones Tale” and “A Journey Far From the Throne.” The title appears above the release date “Jan 18,” with the HBO Max logo at the bottom.

10/10 #AKOTSK

Why I don't use Google Maps in Amsterdam YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

Someone from Google please fix Google Maps in the Netherlands 🚲
youtu.be/csHdwHTteOw

AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock.

If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense.

And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...

If you are going to AWS re:Invent this year, you can join this session exactly on this topic 👇🏻

When has the tech industry become so hostile to interns/new grads/early-career engineers?

I post that there's finally some good news of a *few* (not many!) companies hiring interns/juniors and the response is universally negative

So: what happens when we stop hiring young ppl?

Free startup idea: mobile app that makes you register your own eyeshadows and help you find make-up looks for inspiration.

One of the perks of my job is to work closely with amazing tech professionals working for these companies (AWS customers).

This will come across as super biased but I swear I'm using Amazon Q to write tests for a serverless workload (step functions) and it's amazing like water in the desert. I wish I had Q as a customer 6 years ago 😭♥️

Entrepreneurs: I wish you success with your business and public outreach.
But please drop the fake podcast videos as a way to establish your personal brand online.
They are cringe 💀💀💀

a man wearing sunglasses is looking down at something . Alt: a man wearing sunglasses is looking down at something .

Remote debugging for AWS Lambda!
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I'm going to Sicily soon! So excited

Pedro Pascal surrounded by hearts and clouds

Andor season 2:

Andor season 2

Why hello there Andor Season 2

Am I the only one who didn't know that some TV shows have a weekly podcast for episodes commentary?

That moment when you finally go to the bike shop to fix your flat tyre… and it turns out the problem was just a loose valve 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

Flowchart showing a distributed system that uses MCP to communicate with MCP servers running in Lambda functions.

The vast majority of MCP servers today aren't actually servers 😱 They run as a child process and communicate over stdio, a bit awkward for distributed systems trying to use MCP.

Backend apps can now run existing stdio MCP servers in Lambda functions with this new library:
github.com/awslabs/run-...

AWS Summit Amsterdam 2025 Foster continuous innovation, gain new skills, and network with peers at AWS Summit Amsterdam.

I'll be missing the AWS Summit Amsterdam this year ❤️ I hope I'll be back next year.
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Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone | Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its…

Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone

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#AWS #Storage #FinOps

Generating Dynamic Ads in Under 1 Second Using AWS Lambda with Booking.com | Case Study | AWS Learn how online travel agency Booking.com built an in-house on-demand creative overlay solution using AWS serverless solutions.

Booking.com's ad-tech team ✨reduced costs by 90%✨ by developing an in-house, on-demand creative overlay solution using an AWS serverless architecture!

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I cannot believe we are getting Severance, The White Lotus, The Last of Us, and Andor one after another.

🚨 Want to kickstart your cloud security career for FREE? AWS is offering an exclusive opportunity you can’t miss 🧵👇

The All Builders Welcome Grant gives early-career tech pros a FULLY PAID trip to AWS re:Inforce 2025 in Philly! ✈️💼

I love driving in the Netherlands. But the Amsterdam city center? Not so much!

Who Are You? (with SZA, Dan Erickson, and We Know Severance) Podcast Episode · The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott · 03/28/2025 · 1h 6m

Thank you SZA for swinging by to talk #severance 💙💙

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Hot take: promotion documents should be accessible to all employees within the company.

Meme of a man manically explaining what looks like a conspiracy theory

Explaining the ffmpeg command line interface to a friend

You're in for a treat.

I missed the White Lotus' woo hoo intro song, but the new one is growing on me.

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.

Psychological safety REQUIRES:

* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down

Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world.

As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS.

It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️

This was a great read.