Corey Quinn

I begrudgingly concur with his assessment.

An entertaining evening with my CEO and @quinnypig.com at teuchters landing in Leith. Many pints. Much memory loss.

Fun read from @quinnypig.com to start the day with. shitposting.ai/pickup-incid...

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Oh Christ

The AI detector has been flagged as AI-generated.

AWS Midwest Community Day is on! Keynote from @quinnypig.com got us kicked off 🎉 #awscommunity #mwcd26

Well that’s a hell of an IAM policy.

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Check out @quinnypig.com's conversation with me on "The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent" on @lastweekinaws.com! We talk #AWS history, #DevOps at @awscloud, and how we've encoded that into AWS DevOps Agent. All with Corey's quick wit. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...

Me talking to my team after a vendor sales pitch makes me overcommit

If I were doing @lastweekinaws.com today, what would I change? Introducing ArtificialConfidence.com, for the AI era.

humorphism.com As @quinnypig.com says: "Only AWS could launch something called Humorphism that is in no way funny."

What cloud provider would I build on today? For serious stuff, AWS -- not because it's best, but because knowing how a system breaks is worth more than knowing how it works. Principle of least surprise. duckbillhq.com

FUCK. YES.

As someone who’s both American and European neither my brain nor my electrical appliances work properly.

I suppose someone has to give systemd’s unpopularity a run for its money.

The worst AWS service isn't public. It's Isengard -- the internal tool that means Amazon's engineers never have to manage AWS the way customers do. If they had to live that pain, it'd get fixed. Open source it or stop using it. duckbillhq.com

The buy it now price is way too high, but their bid might get lucky.

Built an agentic EA to handle vendor pitch emails. Technically professional. HR couldn't fire someone for these responses but they'd be having some very uncomfortable conversations. Never felt more alive.

as someone who has battled with the model to try to get it to stop saying 'goblins' I feel somewhat vindicated reading this also... cc/ @quinnypig.com

Very good stuff from @quinnypig.com www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/a...

If your website has a chatbot because your website isn't doing its job, that's a website problem. AI support works when it routes to a human fast. Most deployments are a gauntlet instead. duckbillhq.com

Americans lost less than a 100th of a percent of Amazon’s market cap to scams last year.

Vercel: $10B company, built entirely on AWS, 20-30% markup. Hyperscalers are becoming power grids. Everything depends on them but that's not where the interesting stuff is. Unlike PG&E, AWS still wants credit for what its customers build. duckbillhq.com

I bet it went super well since they’re releasing this on Friday evening.

The thing that frustrates me most about cloud isn't the pricing. It's that we've forgotten how hard this is. Easy became the assumption. That assumption is where expensive surprises live. duckbillhq.com

"Cloud is too expensive, let's build a data center." If your engineering team hears this and doesn't immediately look ill, they haven't done this before. An AZ is a data center. You're not simplifying. duckbillhq.com

the real potential of atproto is to let you sync your watched shows across all streaming sites so they dont keep recommending you the same stuff

It's still free (pay if you want it to be nice to you, or for some reason meaner), but now it supports GitLab too. And also macOS 10.13. DeployBar.app awaits you.

most insane payment structure i've ever seen. the app is mean to you unless you pay them.

I’m learning today that a LOT of people don’t know who Corey is!

I gotta say. @quinnypig.com ‘s last week in AWS newsletter is still years later one of my most useful subscriptions I mean, it gave me me another “possible failure that can keep me up at night” story today but I still would rather know.

A picture is worth 99.9 words. How's that @github.com migration from bare metal to Azure going? via Alex on Mastodon techhub.social/@ironicbadge...

Nice one and gives you proper FS interface - they didn't slap some half solution on top of S3 and it's actually syncing S3 <-> NFS and both work as expected. Also read on costs, especially if you access a lot of small files. More on the topic by @quinnypig.com : www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-is-n...

I’m nostalgic for the days when the grift was behind closed doors.

The devil urging us to miss our morning meetings:

At this point I’m wondering what Delve did that *was* ethical.

It was a bit hypocritical of Alphabet not to allow this.

I do not give a toot what the cause is; for 30% of gross sales Apple can figure it the hell out.

Recently a friend got on some new meds that made them much more chilled out, but to the point that they're procrastinating tedious and boring (but important) tasks, and it made me think about how much of my productivity is just white hot free-floating anxiety.

This is what happens when you surround yourself with an echo chamber of yes men who don’t push back. Constant reversals.

Google is running a “small” experiment in being a colossal piece of corporate shit.

This the same company that's still refusing to accept Apple Pay / tap to pay?

Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Office Hours. Three-year commitment seemed smart in 2022? Spot instances dying at bad times? Someone said "just use Graviton"? Ask away.