Ben Kehoe

People are out here reinventing the Minnesota State Fair

The more I think about this the madder I get

This is AWESOME!! EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first. More details here: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

Truth.

all this time i thought the lasers were going in the other direction

every day we drift further from gods light

The rich are engineering an existence only for themselves and largely don't really realize it I think

Yep. I think a lot about "pinch" the concept I first learned from mobile game design that by making something inconvenient, you can charge people to make that inconvenience go away. And once you learn to spot pinch in all aspects of society, you can't unsee it.

Oooohhh these are some great additions to AWS Step Functions: - Custom error messages in fail states - JitterStrategy for retries (!) - MaxDelaySeconds for retries

Not ready to implement Zero Trust, so we’ve decided on a security posture based on “Two Truths and a Lie”

it'd be cool to nationalize basically everything Musk owns

Some news: next year I'll be starting a job at Siemens Digital Industries in Erlangen, Germany! Looking forward to many interesting challenges to bring the serverless mindset to. And I'm going to be an EMEA Hero!

When people are nostalgic about Ye Olde Internette and wonder why we can't recapture that, this is why: the old internet was atomized **and that was good, actually**. But no one's gonna become a billionaire off of 3 million different self-hosted niche interest phpBB sites so here we are.

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

as a junior engineer: "can't wait for the day I have prod access!" as a senior engineer: "take prod access away from me RIGHT NOW"

Even after more than a decade of Uber, people don’t seem to get that the venture capitalists only subsidize the “disruptive” tech long enough to throw the displaced workers into permanent precarity, then they raise prices after destroying the overall market. Cab driver suicides are the strategy.

Literally every bus driver on the planet does more for green transport every day than musk has done in his life

small if

This is just to say I honored and commemorated the place and the deeds which you had sent me a message about Forgive me The danger was present in my time as it was in yours

Don't worry physicists, programmers don't know how to do reproducible builds or document them either.

very classic blockchain use case, in that it would be better served with a solution like "literally do nothing, it would be cheaper and more effective"

meanwhile let's see what the most powerful man on the planet has to say about this issue

At this point, I think it's the receiver's responsibility to manage notification settings

Good morning, Tesla is a fraud https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

the same companies that have made it illegal for me to copy blu rays for my personal use want to copy people for their commercial use

I really hope Elon Musk tries fintech. Regulators love guys like this. They adore guys who live on the bleeding edge of truth

twitter sign change isn’t going well. Building management called cops

Again, I'm not the boss of you, but if you're a journalist who has to report on what billionaires say, please consider NOT writing "[billionaire] will do [whatever]" and instead write "[billionaire] claims he will do [whatever]."

What AI people worry about: Releasing model weights means AGI comes to kill us all What AI people should worry about: leftpad

My talk from fwd:cloudsec is on YouTube! I talked about my research on various methods that have succeeded in bypassing CloudTrail and I shared a full-bypass for the EventBridge service (now fixed).

Hat tip to @popelizbet.bsky.social

Calling libraries as the “original coworking spaces” reinforces how there’s just no way we’d be able to build + fund libraries in modern day society - entirely free centers for learning and community!! - if they didn’t already exist. https://wapo.st/4470IAr

Reddit moderators thought they were caretakers of a community and Spez reminded them they are overseers of a content farm for advertising revenue.

If you pretend to be Googlebot you can still read Twitter without logging in, but otherwise it seems like you can't. The public square requires an account.

Threads is the bleakest thing I've ever seen, by quite some margin. It's extremely powerful, but I cannot recommend watching it

I realized I had never demoed the little feature I contributed to #Python 3.11, methods to help introspect string.Template. So I made a thing that interactively prompts you for values to interpolate across a JSON document: https://gist.github.com/benkehoe/3fd5c2ca04093618f486c42d87e9cb1c

Interesting stats from USAA in their re:Inforce talk on AWS data perimeters: 85% of cross-org calls are to S3, and 70% of those S3 calls are to buckets owned by AWS.

the software engineer's path: tired: hard (easy to write, easy to reason about, O(n^2)) wired: hard (easy to write, difficult to reason about, O(n)) inspired: hard (hard to write, easy to reason about, O(n))

Viberary.pizza, which I've been working on for 8 months at this point, just had its first release! https://github.com/veekaybee/viberary/releases/tag/v0.0.1 This is ahead of a massive refactor I did to use BERT.