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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jun 14

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

youtu.be/h5SavjMFRLg?...

I'm Happy You're Here: Anxiety!

YouTube video by I'm Happy You're Here

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jun 6

How dare Disney make Star Wars for adults.

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Mar 5

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

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 23

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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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 23

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 😔

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 19

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.

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 16

Trunk-ass birch

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 11

TIL if you type "the bus that couldn't slow down" intro IMDb it returns "Speed" 😂
#simpsons

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 8

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
aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops...

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 8

✨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
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

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 4

The Fantastic Four trailer is wild.

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 1

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.

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Feb 1

✨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

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 28

✨ My latest blog post explores envelope encryption with AWS KMS, how it works and how it compares to AWS Secrets Manager.
#aws #security #blog
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Understanding Envelope Encryption with AWS KMS | willdady.com

Learn how to use AWS KMS for secure data encryption, including how to generate and manage cryptographic keys, implement envelope encryption, and choose between KMS and Secrets Manager for your specifi...

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 27

✨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

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 27

Why the heck have I not been using zoxide until now?! 🤡
#commandline

Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 26

PSA 🚨
Don't forget to update the current year to 2025 in your public git repositories LICENSE.{txt,md} files!
#git #github #opensource

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 24

I wonder if 2025 will be the year AWS adds Bun and/or Deno runtimes to Lambda natively? 🤔
#aws #serverless

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 21

Wow! Bun 1.2 has native built-in support for AWS S3 and a new SQL client supporting Postgres.
youtu.be/uSzffuqfJQk?...

Bun 1.2

YouTube video by Bun

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 18

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

www.anthropic.com

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 16

Matt Berry touring the 'What We Do in the Shadows' set is the most Matt Berry thing ever. 🦇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVn...

Matt Berry Forgetting Every Part of the What We Do in the Shadows Set | FX

YouTube video by FX Networks

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 16

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 15

Poor doggo 🐶

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 12

My latest blog post discusses how to implement the token bucket algorithm for multi-tenant rate limiting on AWS!

#aws #system-design
willdady.com/rate-limitin...

Rate Limiting Multi-Tenant Environments with the Token Bucket Algorithm on AWS | willdady.com

In a multi-tenant SaaS environment, it is often necessary to rate limit certain actions to prevent any single tenant from overwhelming shared resources. In this post I discuss how the token bucket alg...

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Will Dady @willdady.com · Jan 12

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

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