Shared today on Twitter

Realised I was sick of my personal site design on the weekend so revamped using a lovely responsive template from https://t.co/Ft7prUOVq0 (because my CSS skills stopped developing ‘round about 2003…) https://t.co/RSu5Optc1R https://t.co/NXH6g4tVdm


RT @AWS_DACH: AWS DACH Office Hours: Der deutschsprachige Live-Stream mit @dtraub. Unser Thema am 10. November: Datenmodellierung mit Dynam…


We’re all pretty excited about this announcement! Fingers crossed I’ll be able to visit in the future and meet some of the Swiss dev community in person. 😃🇨🇭☁️ https://t.co/oN8WsEQEwR


Today’s To Do list tasks are all about preventing nasty pestilence:

1) Get a flu shot
2) Return my electronic overseas US election ballot


A few months back I created a Lambda function “canary” to periodically check the @RoaldDahlFans site. Lately it’s been throwing a lot of errors. My SRE did some digging in the logs on the weekend and saw a lot of Apache mod_pagespeed errors…


After disabling mod_pagespeed, looks like a sudden drop in both max execution time as well as errors! Fingers crossed this was the culprit… https://t.co/7Nxqyf4Ptj


The beautiful orange leaves are all gone, in less than a week. I forget what it’s like to see the seasons change. 🍁 https://t.co/leoyZ3Saz9


@LapTop006 Apparently Munich usually sees some, though I’m told it doesn’t often stick. The Snook has read that the chances are good for a white Christmas!


I’ve been having a lot of fun with my colleagues preparing the new AWS “Developers, Let’s Build” series, and registration is now open! It’s happening Nov 16. I’m presenting module 1 on moving your existing WordPress site to AWS using Amazon Lightsail… https://t.co/W9l6C0zUYZ https://t.co/d2P15xjuvm


While I love @QuinnyPig’s snark, the feel good stories @cjwilburn highlighted in today’s @LastWeekinAWS were exactly what I needed. Small businesses succeeding! Better health care! Training kids! Non-profits! Robot vacuum cleaners! ❤️🤗


@cjwilburn I left out how many food references there were. You made me hungry!!! 😂


RT @Pinboard: My own anxiety finds expression in regularly checking Amazon to make sure we’re not in the Berenstyin Bears timeline


For as much as I complain about Indiana, I’m truly grateful that I get to exercise my right to vote electronically. Thanks to the @CityOfElkhartIN Election Board for their professionalism as always! 🇺🇸 #VOTE https://t.co/evORsWv8B6


And thank you to @DemsAbroad as always for the timely info, tools, and even phone calls to remind me not to miss the deadline!


RT @DemsAbroad: ❤️ We love a verified vote! 🗳 Glad we could help you #votefromabroad. 🇺🇸🌍 https://t.co/c1VJrrkwBV https://t.co/inAmSxg7bR


@edjgeek No shadows on that background! 👏😜


@FarrahC32 My aunt in America has already posted photos on Facebook of her tree. So you will hardly be the first!


RT @KenTremendous: She only won by 21 votes. Yours matters. https://t.co/WedDVcvlVN



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