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Rastamonstah
@rastamonstah.bsky.social
Developer focused on backend/platform engineering. Typescript, Node, AWS, Terraform, CDK, and Postgres

Also interested in other things such as pc gaming, manga, and etc

he/him
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We saved transit.
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.
April 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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this game is more about the (bloody) parts we can’t show you, than the parts that we can
April 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Having a lot of fun as Yasuke in AC Shafows 🤣
April 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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y'know it's pretty weird that bluesky still has no authenticator app 2fa, just email 2fa

anyway after seeing someone get compromised earlier please enable 2fa on your account
March 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Always a good time getting a new person to try this for the first time in their lives. It’s so good though 😂
March 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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An article that speaks right out of my deepest soul as a software engineer.

Especially love the parts where he didn't change his opinion.

Thanks for this on-point masterpiece, Chris ✨

chriskiehl.com/article/tho...
February 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Picked up a Pixel 9 Pro XL after being on iOS for the past couple of years and wow they've done a lot to improve this flavor of android. Really digging how smooth everything feels
February 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework.

We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework.

react.dev/blog/2025/02...
Sunsetting Create React App – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
react.dev
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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sorry not sorry
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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JavaScript's date object has been tricky for years, but that will change soon.

The NEW Temporal API brings,
🌍 Easily handle time zones
📆 Precise date math
🕒 Parse ISO strings without errors
⌛ Durations, date ranges, and more.

Start exploring 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...
JavaScript Temporal is coming | MDN Blog
A new way to handle dates and times is being added to JavaScript. Let's take a look at Temporal, what problems it solves, the current state, and what you'll find in the new documentation about it on MDN.
developer.mozilla.org
January 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🔄 The Truth about Trunk-Based Development

I was wrong before, but now I get it. Here's why Trunk-Based Development is the way forward for modern development teams...
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1/5
January 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Making holiday memories
December 25, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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Every time someone talks about how public wifi is safe to use without a VPN due to things like HTTPS and HSTS, some random person replies with "man-in-the-middle attack" because they don't actually know what that is, and therefore don't understand that HTTPS and HSTS address specifically that.
December 24, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

CDK developer: that's when I was synthesizing my stacks.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Database Admin: That's a normal maintenance window
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Software Engineer: Code was compiling

xkcd.com/303/
December 21, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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I love the movie the substance cause she goes through all that just to keep working. Like oh I’m hot again I guess I’ll work some more. Weird bitch
December 16, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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🚀 Unlock the Power of Modern CI/CD!

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we shared strategies for scaling CI/CD pipelines with consistency, security, and flexibility:
🔹 Unified pipelines
🔹 GitOps principles
🔹 Continuous configuration & feature flags

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV0b...

#CICD #DevOps #AWSreInvent
AWS re:Invent 2024 - The modern CI/CD toolbox: Strategies for consistency and reliability (DEV335)
YouTube video by AWS Events
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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The audibook version of The Software Engineer's Guidebook is out today!

Here are locations you can get it (both DRM-free and on various platforms); how this version was created, and why it is not available on Audible - for now, at least:

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/software-e...
December 10, 2024 at 6:59 PM
December 5, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Aurora DSQL feels like Postgres but drives like serverless - Get the full scoop in my latest blog 👇
blog.datachef.co/aurora-dsql-...
Aurora DSQL - A NEW boring(?) AWS Serverless Postgres compatible database
Aurora DSQL( is a serverless, distributed database with PostgreSQL compatibility. Serverless and relational databases don't usually mix, but AWS has modernized this traditional classic car(PostgresSQL), with a brand-new interior powered by a Formula ...
blog.datachef.co
December 3, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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I influence people to play games
November 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
🦋
November 29, 2024 at 2:14 AM