Chris Williams☁️🐍

I don't know who decides how much leg room Delta Airlines allocates to Premium economy seating... But I'll bet they have really short femurs.

And by "neurodivergent, Karp means "easily exploitable" tech-insider.org/palantir-kar...

@mapquest.com out here doing the good work. Shame on you Google.

Tonight on @vbrownbag.com (8:30PM ET): "AI: Your New Social Media Designer" with Caitlyn Feletar! Caitlyn is doing a live walkthrough of turning Claude into a personal social media designer, so on-brand Instagram posts take less time AND don't suck🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWEZ...

Leaving my FIRST #AllThingsOpen conf and IT WAS AMAZING! - 2 talks - Many old friends - Many NEW friends - 1 bestest goodest good boy EVAR 🥹🥹

Happy to share that I'll be speaking at Scaling AI: Operational Lessons from 500 GPUs at All Things Open! Make sure to attend it on October 20. www.linkedin.com/events/scali...

As Alastair Cooke explains, this is the power of "bounded thinking" and dedicated decision models: bypassing fluffy explanations to score, stack-rank, and deliver the single best course of action. #TFDRundown #DecisionModels #ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseTech #TechNews

Tonight (8:30PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com "Griping as a Service: LLM-assisted Requirements Analysis" w/ @katiekodes.com Join us as she flips requirements analysis on its head - using LLMs to turn user frustrations and workarounds into structured plans! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6AT...

Hey @mistwire.com, we're awful and it's all our fault! Wait, that can't be right. ( #LLM to the rescue... ) Much better! Emotions can run high in tech; come to "Griping as a Service" on @vbrownbag.com to make them your coding superpower. 8:30-9:30PM US Eastern, in just 2 DAYS! (Wed. 10/14/26)

This is, by far, the Best Sticker Ever™ 🤣🥰

An AI agent that only works when you type at it is just a very expensive chat window. 💬 LIVE tomorrow (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "Event Driven Agents 101" w/ Brian Koehler www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B24... #AIAgents #EventDriven

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

#Monktoberfest Day 2 starting with @bcantrill.bsky.social & @monkchips.com is spiking the CFP pool 🤣🤣

Thanks so much to Red Hat for sponsoring dinner tonight. Maine fayre. #monktoberfest

🥰📚Got my signed copy of @cathicks.bsky.social new book here at #Monktoberfest! She's also joining us on @vbrownbag.com Dec 9th: "How to Protect Your Mind on the Age of AI" 🥳🥰

Day 1 talk 2 is #Monktoberfest is resonating so hard: Lisa Rokusek - "In 2026 Technology is a Bomb Factory" I remember the good old "do no evil" days 🫠

Cloud Field Day 26 (#CFD26) is LIVE - 1st up @commvault.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JunX...

Wow Wow WOW! @vbrownbag.com just hit 2 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube! 🤯 Huge thank you to everyone involved: - The guests, the hosts, the community that has come together for the past 13 years and kept this a fun learning platform that everyone can use 🥰🥳🐢🥰🥳 Check us out: youtube.com/@vbrownbag

Brian Okken has put out a practical guide on using TDD effectively in your org. It's short, filled with fantastic advice, and totally worth a read if you are in the space: leantdd.com

Most side projects don't come with a built-in fanbase of millions 📚🔍🤓 LIVE tonight (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com "Building a Theory Board for the Sarah J. Maas Universe on AWS" w/ Jennifer Magruder Fan project meets real AWS architecture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGQ... #AWS #CommunityBuilder

@ahoyuniverse.bsky.social nails it:

Day 2 of @djangocon.us kicks off with Sarah Boyce "Emails from my Grandad" 🥰

Your codebase has answers. Your AI just can't find them. 🤖 LIVE tomorrow (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com "Context Engineering & Making Your Codebase Queryable" w/ Brian Carpio What context engineering & how to make a codebase queryable for AI agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDoQ...

User groups come, user groups go (R.I.P. VTUG 🥲) Tomorrow (noon ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "How to Build a Thriving Tech Community" Manvendra runs AWS Cloud Club JECRC and we're getting into: - Common mistakes - Lessons learned - Practical takeaways Join us LIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RduJ...

Cool cool cool. Now do: 1. fire departments 2. stadiums 3. police departments 4. ROADS 5. emergency rooms p.s. fuck you.

You mean to tell me these "influencers" did the OpenAI brand trip FOR FREE!?!? OPENAI IS WORTH 852 BILLION DOLLARS If you're going to shill for a company THE PUBLIC HATES at least get paid for it 🤦🏻‍♂️

Anyone got 55 trillion laying around that I can borrow? My AWS bill is due.

Question: is bluesky actively hostile to AI learning?

Live in 2 hours! Join us for Q&A, punch & pie.

Guardrails, RAG, and a Bedrock demo built for an exam @faye-ellis.bsky.social says is brutal Join us LIVE Wed on @vbrownbag.com (noon ET) "Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock" + real talk on the AWS AI Dev Pro cert www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKD...

🤣🥰🤣 (to be clear, I adore @matthewbonig.bsky.social)

Join me and Andrew Brown in 1 hour for the kickoff to his Claude Code Camp! We are going to show what we are building, how to do technical documentation of the project, & cover the scope of the build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvS...

New @vbrownbag.com episode is UP: "Getting into Local AI (2/3)" with Du'An Lightfoot! "GPU memory math, agent architectures, observability, token economics — the stuff nobody explains until your bill arrives." youtu.be/WSalm-rvG2E

Most AI content is built for developers. What about everyone else? Tomorrow at noon ET on @vbrownbag.com - "AI for Normal People" with AWS Hero @hoegertn.de Thorsten is helping SMBs learn to learn AI in a budget-friendly way. Come along as we learn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ6Y... #AI #AWS

AWS re:Invent is $1,799 + flight + hotel. What if AWS just... paid for yours? 👀 Join us LIVE in 30 min on @vbrownbag.com: "How to go to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE" with Dale Orders - The grant programs that can cover your re:Invent ticket - Who's eligible & how to apply youtube.com/@vbrownbag

Yelling at LLM Costs TONIGHT 8:30 PM ET Who's actually paying for all this AI? The @vbrownbag.com Gang talks about: 💸 Frontier model pricing 🖥️ Local models & hidden costs 🏢 What this means for enterprise budgets 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_U... @sixfoot.dad @giftedlane.bsky.social

Getting Started with Local AI with Du'An Lightfoot (1 of 3 part @vbrownbag.com series) is UP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VS1...

Hear @mistwire.com, Global Developer Relations Manager at @hashicorp.com, chat with me about everything from consulting to tech certifications to corporate espionage (sort of) on the latest @redmonk.com MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/from-... youtube.com/shorts/HKZyS...

Hey y'all, I'm looking for some work to bridge the gap while I continue working on @cartridge.dev and @happyview.dev. If you have contract work for #atproto projects (planning, code, architecture), I'd be delighted to help. DM me with details. #atproto #OpenToWork #LookingForWork

Have you ever used AI to help build a Terraform environment and it was... underwhelming? Well LOOK NO FURTHER 😆 Today on @vbrownbag.com - Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don't Have To!) with Sam McGeown! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpwj...

I bet a million dollars he doesn't know what "kinetic" means

Tomorrow @ noon on @vbrownbag.com: "Cloud Credibility: Marketing Yourself in the AWS Era" with AWS Community Builder Janvi Bhagchandani! In this episode we deploy a personal website using AWS services: S3, CloudFront, and (optionally) Amplify or Lambda! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5R...

Last weeks @vbrownbag.com is UP: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol ! In this episode we got into a bunch of topics: Horror movies, cannibalism, contributing to open source, burnout, how we (sometimes) destroy the things we love😅 youtu.be/h7FGF3BaJ2I

This week (8:30PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol Listen in as we (maybe) talk about: - OSS contributions! - If we shouldn't eat people, why are they so darn tasty? - Wine pairings www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh6...

🐍📰 Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews #python

The Tech Field Day News Rundown ▶️ buff.ly/RLeD3SL AI's Big Mistakes Allianz Big Data Hack White House AI Action Plan Palo Alto to acquire @CyberArk Commvault to acquire Satori Cyber Mass Layoffs Hit Intel @NetworkingNerd.net @TechFieldDay.com #TFDRundown #AI #CyberSecurity #ITNews #IntelLayoffs

Replay is available if you missed today's livestream with @mistwire.com ⬇️

This week (7/16 @ 8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "DevOps is a Foreign Language (Or Why There Are No Junior SREs)" w/ @joshleecreates.bsky.social! We chat with him about what DevOps is, why it's so hard to define, and why there really aren't any "junior" SREs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOL8...

Join us July 17th for fun with me and @stu.bsky.social !