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Twitter <> Andrew

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January 27th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

I thought I learned K8s until I tired to run my own cluster L...

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November 18th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

Making grilled cheese in the toaster is messy

Nov 19 '21

My thoughts on the HashiCorp Infrastructure Automation Certification

Danny... you didn't notice my new course! LOL

Oct 29 '21

Is Rust going to Replace Java?

Better yet is Rust going to replace everything? lol

Oct 28 '21

Let's Make a Pokémon Themed Note Keeping App in React!

Just add video functionality and I can see this replacing Go...

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August 26th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

WIth Terraform you can write your own custom providers for an...

Aug 27 '21

The Developer Feedback You Are Actually Getting is Survivorship Bias

Meanwhile I'm over here itemizing every little piece of frict...

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August 20th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

I learned that something like 5% of spend is on cloud, meanin...

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Jul 30 '21

Will you consider your carbon footprint when configuring your compute workloads?

#discuss #cloud

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Jul 20 '21

This is what gatekeeping looks like in the cloud industry (or how to not be a reply guy)

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Jun 17 '21

Is PolyWork the new LinkedIn for Developers?

#discuss #career

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Feb 7 '21

If you were the new CEO of Amazon Web Services what would be your first executive order?

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Dec 3 '20

AWS Heroes React to AWS re:Invent 2020 Announcements 🤯

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Aug 12 '20

AWS Community Builders Program

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Jun 22 '20

Free Youtube Channels I Recommend To Help You Pass AWS / Azure Certification ☁️

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Jun 20 '20

FREE AWS Developer Associate Certification Course (250+ Videos) 😱

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Jun 18 '20

FREE 3 Hour Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Certification Course (100+ Videos!) 😱

#azure #beginners #career #cloud

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May 20 '20

CloudJourney - Want to be on my live-stream?

#aws #azure #devops #career

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Apr 8 '20

I am being cyberbullied and it's affecting my mental health. This is my personal cure.

#discuss #pinkday #todayilearned

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Mar 7 '20

WTF? Google Cloud Platform has a Cloud Service that Uses ML to help you find a job. How more meta can you get?

#gcp #career #webdev #cloud

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Feb 29 '20

DynamoDB Cheatsheet – Everything you need to know about Dynamo DB for the 2020 AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification

#aws #database #developer #cloud

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Feb 20 '20

Pulling your DEV Organization Stats into a Spreadsheet

#showdev #tutorial #productivity #beginners

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Feb 19 '20

Upcoming Change to the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam SAA-C01 to SAA-C02

#aws

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Feb 14 '20

I had to build my own Markdown Editor because no tool was fast enough for me.

#showdev #productivity #opensource #javascript

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Jan 21 '20

AWS for Startups (FREE 4hrs Video Course)

#aws #startup #beginners #tutorial

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Nov 21 '19

Gotta Learn Em' All - Amázons (Web Services)

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Nov 20 '19

The FREE AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Study Course (275+ Videos!) 😱

#aws #beginners #career #cloud

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Nov 7 '19

Delta-Eos (ASCII Detective Sci-fi game) - Starting to Play Like a Game

#showdev #ruby #gamedev

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Nov 4 '19

Delta-Eos - Starting to look like a game

#showdev #ruby #gamedev

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Oct 30 '19

I am AWS Obsessed but I can't get hired at AWS. Have you ever faced such repeated rejection?

#discuss #rejection #aws #career

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Oct 30 '19

Delta-Eos - ASCII Text-Heavy Murder Mystery Game

#showdev #ruby #gamedev

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Oct 29 '19

TL;DR Headless CMS

#productivity #webdev #beginners #tldr

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Oct 10 '19

The Free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Course (85+ Videos!)

#aws #beginners #career #makeachange

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Oct 4 '19

The fast track to microservices on AWS

#techtalks #aws #microservices #devops

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Aug 28 '19

Who/what should I follow on Instagram for web-dev?

#discuss #webdev #career #help

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Aug 26 '19

I just did my first guest podcast and I'm giving away a free study course for AWS Certification!

#aws #career #beginners #fullstack

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Aug 11 '19

Event Tracking and Analytics via Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB (with Streams), Kinesis Firehose and Athena and CloudWatch Dashboard!

#aws #rails #bigdata #kinesis

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Aug 4 '19

You're not worth hiring unless...

#discuss #webdev #career

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Aug 1 '19

Just moved our online IDE from Cloud9 to VSCode what extensions should we use?

#help #vscode

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Jul 29 '19

Live-Stream July 30th 12:30PM-1:30PM EDT - Hacks to Improve your LinkedIn Profile for Devs

#career #webdev #beginners #linkedin

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Jul 12 '19

How do you like your rice pudding?

#watercooler

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Jun 18 '19

Toronto Meetup June 22nd. Any DEV.to users in the GTA?

#aws #webdev #meetup #ux

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Jun 17 '19

TV while coding? Distraction or Motivation?

#discuss #webdev

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Jun 16 '19

Its Sunday, are you coding?

#discuss #webdev

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Jun 14 '19

What gives you the most anxiety when freelancing?

#discuss #webdev #entrepreneur #freelance

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Jun 13 '19

RSpec - Writing Test Code In Ruby (3/3)

#beginners #ruby #testing #tutorial

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Jun 13 '19

MiniTest - Writing Test Code In Ruby (2/3)

#beginners #ruby #testing #tutorial

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Jun 13 '19

TestUnit - Writing Test Code In Ruby (1/3)

#beginners #ruby #testing #tutorial

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May 29 '19

700+ Web Developers Asked Me To Give Them LinkedIn Profile Feedback And These Are My 🖐️ 5 Top Tips.

#career #webdev #beginners #linkedin

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May 19 '19

LinkedIn is for Losers? Think Again. From 💰 100k+ to 200K+ job opportunities. 🛠 Hacks Included.

#career #webdev #beginners #linkedin

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May 18 '19

👶 New Baby! 👕New Shirt! 📙New AWS Course! Let's Celebrate with a Special Deal!

#news #aws #beginners #career

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May 14 '19

SNS vs SQS? AWS Messaging Services - Know the difference

#aws #beginners #architect #career

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Apr 24 '19

How To Put On F*cking Stunning Tech Talks. Hacks Included 🛠

#career #beginners #speaking #culture

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Apr 20 '19

How To Run A Modded Minecraft Server on AWS

#aws #minecraft #devops #beginners

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Apr 19 '19

The Fast Track to Serverless Security on AWS

#serverless #security #aws #devops

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Apr 18 '19

I Made It To 💯 Youtube Subscribers! Lets Celebrate 🎉

#junkpost #personalnews

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Apr 13 '19

How to Serve On-Demand Streaming Videos from AWS (Build Your Own Netflix)

#aws #rails #webdev #devops

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Apr 8 '19

Ten AWS Services If They Were Pokémon (Amázmons?)

#pokemon #aws #beginners

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Apr 6 '19

🎉 Published My First AWS Udemy Course And I Want You To Have It For Free!

#personalnews #aws #rails #beginners

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Apr 4 '19

5 things I wish I knew before using CloudFormation to build a CodePipeline for Lambda Functions

#cloudformation #codepipeline #aws #architect

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Apr 4 '19

14 Practice Question Walkthrough Videos for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

#aws #certification #beginners #career

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Apr 2 '19

New Feature - Short Video on Advanced Request Routing for AWS ALB

#aws #alb

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Apr 1 '19

AWS White Paper Walkthrough - Security Overview of AWS Lambda March 2019

#aws #whitepaper #security #lambda

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Mar 30 '19

The Fast Track to AWS Security - Feb 26 2019

#aws #security #certification

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