Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. he/him. Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/ Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3ml4oczftns2oFUCK. YES. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4oczftns2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3ml4dr4zdxk2mAs someone who’s both American and European neither my brain nor my electrical appliances work properly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4dr4zdxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3ml4dll5efs2mI suppose someone has to give systemd’s unpopularity a run for its money. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4dll5efs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mkzvzeouiy2pThe 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.com04 May 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzvzeouiy2phttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mktthapcss2hThe buy it now price is way too high, but their bid might get lucky. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 04:44 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktthapcss2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mksenfazly23Built 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.01 May 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksenfazly23https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mkndr3ihts2wIf 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.com29 Apr 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkndr3ihts2whttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mkjkknn6r22pAmericans lost less than a 100th of a percent of Amazon’s market cap to scams last year. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjkknn6r22phttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mkicrplaww2iVercel: $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.com27 Apr 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkicrplaww2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mkc2g7i3ac2qI bet it went super well since they’re releasing this on Friday evening. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2026 03:01 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkc2g7i3ac2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mkarejj5q22hThe 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.com24 Apr 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkarejj5q22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mk3qhwffc32z"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.com22 Apr 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3qhwffc32zhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mjkpxbseek2wIt'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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Apr 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkpxbseek2whttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mjfm377fik2iDeployBar is on the Mac App Store. Free CI monitoring with a platypus that judges your branch names. deploybar.app https://deploybar.app13 Apr 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfm377fik2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mimdlvcrwc2rI’m nostalgic for the days when the grift was behind closed doors. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimdlvcrwc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3miiuv4bjgs2sThe devil urging us to miss our morning meetings: [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Apr 2026 09:20 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miiuv4bjgs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mihzxq7wjk2iAt this point I’m wondering what Delve did that *was* ethical. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Apr 2026 01:18 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mihzxq7wjk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3miegfxmei224It was a bit hypocritical of Alphabet not to allow this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miegfxmei224https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3miaisai7522jI do not give a toot what the cause is; for 30% of gross sales Apple can figure it the hell out. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Mar 2026 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:jjld7ws2qgyls32p5efdu4qm/app.bsky.feed.post/3miaisai7522jhttps://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3mhvbgyuwjs2qThis is what happens when you surround yourself with an echo chamber of yes men who don’t push back. Constant reversals. 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