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Keeping up with AWS these days is like drinking from a firehose and while a lot of their newer products are designed to make existing products more accessible, every once in a while you get something that helps solve a nagging issue, or opens up a whole new world of possibilities on one of their core services.
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I've been really energized lately, there just seems to be so much going on in AI right now and it's opening up a ton of new opportunities. Of course, there are a lot of problems that need to be solved, especially around security, privacy, fairness, not to mention the cost of running these systems. It's exciting though and it reminds me a lot of what it was like working on the internet in the very early days.
“back in the good ol’ days” (like in the early/mid 90s), internet culture in tech was very different from what it is today. We would write a lot of open source software, share ideas and have constructive debates about how to make things better. If you used someone else’s software, you would would patch it for your own systems and then send the patches back in so that other people could take advantage of them. Yeah, sure, we had tech holy wars like “vi (vim) vs emacs” - but no one really cared which one you used, just pick the one that makes the most sense to you.
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Shots from a recent hiking trip in Sedona Arizona. The hiking here is amazing and we were able to get on the trails by hiking out the backdoor of the place were were staying at. We also did a side trip over to Jerome, AZ which is an old mining town built on a mountain side.
I recently had the opportunity to take a darkroom class which was just fantastic. It’s been years since I’ve been in a darkroom and I’ve always wanted to have my own darkroom at home so I took the class to make sure I remember how everything works and to get an idea of what equipment and supplies I might need. These shots were taken on a roll of Ilford FP4+ and was the first roll of film I’ve shot in about 15 years. I’m using a 25 year old Leica R8 and all of these shots were taken with an Elmarit 1:2.8/24mm lens on two consecutive days.
Here’s an interesting challenge. You have a personal laptop that you want to use to access both your personal GitHub account as well as your work GitHub account. Or maybe you have a number of clients and you need GitHub access to all of them from a single system.