It’s 7am on a Sunday, and somebody just drove through our rather quiet neighborhood blasting clown car music. I’m both mad and amused.

On vacation, sitting in a piano bar with my wife. Nearly every song the pianist is playing is renditions of songs we know and enjoy. Then it dawns on me… I’m now the target demographic for what I used to call “old people vacations”.

Haven't written anything in awhile or done much outside of work. But wanted to do a small sample of the new #cdk blueprint property injection. As always there is sample code in a repo that goes with it.

kennethwinner.com/2025/05/24/c...

Ever notice how "That's a good question" rarely indicates a truly good question. I wish we would accept complete silence for a few moments when waiting for an answer to a question.

A minimal line chart that has been designed to look like a rollercoaster. There are 5 rows, with the first four going the full width of the screen and the last one only a quarter of the width. The track is brown, and there are A-frame supports holding up the track along its entire length. At the very end of the track is a yellow cart getting ready to take off into the air as it comes over a peak.

#30DayChartChallenge: Slopes 📊

Continuing to visualize my moods, this time as a rollercoaster track. Each row in the track is a year, and the dips and valleys represent shifts in mood across each day.

a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front ALT: a man in a blue shirt with a star trek logo on the front

it's yesterday, be me: "Wow, on-call has been easy. No pages or nothing. Seems like something is wrong, it's TOO quiet!"

today: Critical downstream provider goes down.

Silicon Valley- Gilfoye's AI Deleted All Software YouTube video by Simulated

Remember when this was a joke?

Any CDK family out here? I'm using the beta cross-region references. I've got some exports I want to remove but it enforces strong references (this is fine). I tried to find a way to inject my exports to the custom resource but the provider is private and aspects can't seem to visit the node.

The OSS fork is the closest in terms of drop in. Anything else will require pretty heavy rewrite.

Watching Mufasa, my wife and I were like “dang, whoever wrote this was trying real hard to emulate Lin-Manuel Miranda”… then I actually checked the credits for the movie and everything made sense. Holy moly was that a poorly executed movie though.

The other thing I have had good luck with (especially with rust) is asking it to take modules that have evolved naturally over time with solid test suites around them, and refactor into more idiomatic and DRY'd up code.

Yep. Occasionally I have had it do some pretty dumb stuff in composer mode for what should have been simple requests, but I just look at it as forcing good version control behavior.

"Ah yes, those utility poles are clearly very Polish," i mumbled to myself late last night. It's wild how quickly you can build up the most useless knowledge about countries by playing geoguessr.

The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts

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Stack trace reads: internal error: entered unreachable code Backtrace: 0: std::backtrace_rs::backtrace::libunwind::trace

Feeling so "memory" safe right now!

Image of LLM interaction. Prompt: My startup idea is Output: a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit

Was playing with an intentionally under-trained model... and I think it circled back into self-aware.

I just sql injected myself with a csv -> json -> sql generator -> string parser. Sanitize them inputs folks.

if my terminal history ever goes away i'm retiring.

seems like a good cause stopjava.com

A side by side photo of Landra the black lab cuddling on a couch in 2020 and in 2025. She is smaller in the 2020 photo, but still has the same eyes and posture.

Happy gotcha day to Landra! We adopted her 5 years ago from Lucky Dog Rescue and it’s been one of the best life choices @jaredshort.com & I have ever made. Forever glad she still likes to cuddle with me on the couch so many years later.

fine. I'll use the XLR on my mic and do things right. I've only been remote working for 15 years, practically an intern.

Ghostty Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

ghostty.org is pretty okay. seems pretty speedy and all my normal stuff works out of the box.

took me a second... computering are hard. thanks!

Huntsman spider - Wikipedia

Looks like a huntsman? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsma...

I'm not saying I'm an AWS expert… but I am saying I finally tracked down the random AWS account charging me small amounts every month and closed it.

just got a marketing email for a "waterproof rain jacket"...

Documentation from a provider in the healthcare sector reads “production environment is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the exception of Sundays…” and honestly I can’t really sum up the space much better than that.

Excellent piece on Amazon Aurora DSQL from @ryan-sb.bsky.social. A take that is nuanced and introspective on DSQL’s place in the AWS ecosystem. rsb.io/posts/re-exp...

Sure. I’m not saying this is exclusively a serverless thing, or even a problem! It’s just lot easier thing to happen when all the underlying stuff is patched and tolerates outages and even memory crashes, etc. if you aren’t actively dragging along those services they won’t evolve as your org does.