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Will Dady
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Love this hilarious, unhinged 'Sesame Street for adults' style video by Ashley Birch.

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I'm Happy You're Here: Anxiety!
YouTube video by I'm Happy You're Here
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How dare Disney make Star Wars for adults.
Just found out I have been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program under the AI Engineering category! 🤖

Looking forward to rubbing shoulders with fellow AWS Builders 🤩

Thanks @jasondunn.bsky.social and team!

#AWS #AWScommunity
My latest blog post breaks down the Saga pattern – a powerful way to maintain data consistency across services without relying on complex distributed transactions. Learn about choreography vs. orchestration, and how to implement both on AWS.

#aws #architecture

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Coordinating distributed systems with the Saga Pattern on AWS | willdady.com
This post dives into the Saga pattern, a crucial design pattern for data consistency in microservices. I compare choreography (EventBridge) and orchestration (Step Functions) approaches, detailing the...
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As a long-time Chrome user I recently made the switch to Firefox (on Mac). My main motivation for switching was the more "open" nature of the project.
I think I am going to switch back. I've had issues where video calls simply don't work and I often get choppy video playback. Disappointing 😔
Someone needs to make a job search site targeting tech folks which aggregates other job sites but rewords job ads so the tech stack appears at the top!
An LLM would make light work of that.
Trunk-ass birch
TIL if you type "the bus that couldn't slow down" intro IMDb it returns "Speed" 😂
#simpsons
Great to see AWS has now added a "stack refactoring" feature to CloudFormation!
This should prevent the need to delete-then-import to move resources between stacks, which in my experience has always been a butt-clenching experience.

#AWS #IaC #DevOps
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✨New features✨
Foreman now expects to retrieve an array of zero-or-more jobs per-request to the control server (previously, zero-or-one).
Also, it's now possible to configure maximum concurrent jobs!
#rust #rustlang #opensource #oss
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GitHub - willdady/foreman: Foreman is a Rust based job scheduler and executor agent
Foreman is a Rust based job scheduler and executor agent - willdady/foreman
github.com
The Fantastic Four trailer is wild.
Finally got around to watching Skeleton Crew.
A nice standalone story. I felt the pirate theme was a bit too "arrr matey" in parts but overall I'm a sucker for the "kids on bikes have adventure" genre.
✨New feature ✨
Foreman will now stop and remove Docker containers it manages when receiving a termination signal from the operating system. Container removal is also configurable via settings (defaults to `true`).
#rust #rustlang #opensource #docker
github.com/willdady/for...
GitHub - willdady/foreman: Foreman is a Rust based job scheduler and executor agent
Foreman is a Rust based job scheduler and executor agent - willdady/foreman
github.com
✨New feature!✨
Foreman, will now clean-up (delete) stopped containers after a configurable timeout.
At this stage foreman does not stop or remove containers when SIGINT or SIGTERM is received. This will likely be added next.
#rust #rustlang
github.com/willdady/for...
GitHub - willdady/foreman: Foreman is a Rust based job scheduler and executor agent
Foreman is a Rust based job scheduler and executor agent - willdady/foreman
github.com
Why the heck have I not been using zoxide until now?! 🤡
#commandline
PSA 🚨
Don't forget to update the current year to 2025 in your public git repositories LICENSE.{txt,md} files!
#git #github #opensource
I wonder if 2025 will be the year AWS adds Bun and/or Deno runtimes to Lambda natively? 🤔
#aws #serverless
Wow! Bun 1.2 has native built-in support for AWS S3 and a new SQL client supporting Postgres.
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Bun 1.2
YouTube video by Bun
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I enjoyed reading this article from Anthropic on various patterns used in building AI agents.
I've read a few articles now saying that using LLM APIs directly VS frameworks like Langchain is preferred as abstraction added by the latter make things harder to debug.
www.anthropic.com/research/bui...
Building effective agents
A post for developers with advice and workflows for building effective AI agents
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous
Poor doggo 🐶
I feel like I've been snoozing on Clippy for Rust.
It's like the antithesis of the Rust compiler in that it gives you friendly suggestions on how to improve your code whereas the latter is constantly wacking you with a big stick.
#rustlang #rust