Tag: opinionated

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Lessons Learned in Chasing Unicorns

  • 2023-07-01
I’m old. I’ve been doing open source for a long time. I started in 1996, during my first year of high school. I was always…
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Ninja Rules of Self-Identification

  • 2022-11-14
A ninja does not self-identify as a ninja. <rant>In our field, a lot of folks will call themselves “ninjas” or “10x devs” or “experts,” but…
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I wish AWS had more useful error messages.

  • 2020-10-23
Sorry, this is more of a complaint than anything else. I’ve spent the better part of two days troubleshooting a ValidationException in a CloudFormation stack…