T.J. Hawkins

Annual reminder that titles are wildly inconsistent across the industry.

I’m currently a Senior software engineer. 4 years before this role I was a Staff software engineer. Last year I was offered a Senior Principal role at a different company.

The rules are made up and the points don’t matter.

Numbering it is still naming it, just without letters.

A is closest to the original. You won’t want to kill your garden the same as not wanting to kill your pet.

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I think they only made it because GCP had it first.

The only use case I can think of is restricting the CLI to within the AWS account instead of allowing it from the terminal on their computers.

Yeah…

Had a 4 hour delay leaving destination. All while sitting in the plane on the runway.

Then missed connecting flight. Now have to wait 6 hours for the next one.

Did I mention I hate traveling?

I love to travel, but hate traveling.

I’m trying to get something to eat before my flight. Sitting in a restaurant and the guy being me is doing a FaceTime call with the speaker on full blast.

What the hell is wrong with people.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

Agreed

AI is shit and I rarely use it because it can’t give me what I’m looking for.

And yes, my queries are specific and written well. They normally give wrong answers, I tell it it gave a wrong answer and tries to correct and it’s still wrong.

At @alyankovic.bsky.social show tonight and @puddlespityparty.bsky.social is an absolute treat.

His obsession with Kevin Costner is awesome. So many clips from Dances with Wolves.

Also makes me want to watch The Postman and Waterworld again.

I’m glad I’ll never again have to use that giant steaming pile of garbage.

In all future job interviews, I will ask if they’re using it, and if so, I’ll just quit the interview right then. Not be polite and wait until the end, that will be the end of it.

I was forced to use GitLab at a previous company. I didn’t understand why they needed to rename everything that is already consistent across other providers (GitHub, Bitbucket). They’re called Pull Requests & Repositories!!!

All those things takes more effort than just writing the code yourself.

I’m waiting a couple of years until it gets good enough or the hype dies down.

That’s why I’m not bothering with AI.

I’ve had 1-2 successful queries give me what I was looking for. It was an AWS cli command that I didn’t feel like figuring out the jq parsing.

I wrote a lot of Terraform, so if I can’t figure something out, neither can the AI. I just keep trying until done.

My experience has been that none of them can write an effective Terraform. Most of my use cases are too complicated for them and I just have to do it myself. So I don’t bother trying anymore.

It all depends on what the API does when you try to update the resource. It’s not Terraform that’s the problem, the API.

Yeah, CloudFormation is a real drag. I only use it when I have to (legacy code we haven’t migrated yet).

We’re actively moving away from it though.

Another is to write your own class that extends one of those objects and write this equals method above.

If you have control over one of the objects, you write your own equals method in that object and have the other one be the input and compare just the items you care about.

public boolean equals(ObjectB obj) {…}

objA.equals(object)

It’s common to keep state files in a remote backend like S3.

Secrets can also be in AWS Secrets Manager or something similar.

Shout out to H‑E‑B for stepping up once again to help Texas in a time of need. From delivering food and water to deploying mobile kitchens. Some in our coalition have signed up to volunteer on the ground, while others are donating to support the recovery from afar.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

I love everything about this article. Serves him right that this thing is a flop.

It’s not just the SDK. It can’t figure out HCL either. Never puts closing “ or }.

I’ve stopped using it because it takes more time to fix its mess than just right the code myself.

Harry Butthole and the Chamber of Secrets

Just 20 times? I’ve probably seen it 200. Tombstone is another that I’ve watch at least 50.

The State Fair doesn’t start until 10/16, so that’s not an option.

NC State football is away that weekend, so that’s not an option.

The Carolina Hurricanes could have a home game that weekend.

Won’t know many activities until closer to the date.

Being able to deprecate variables of a module.

It’s supposedly coming, but it’s long overdue.

I aspire to do the final job, not the others, the coding job I have is just fine.

😂

I’ve been saying this for years. Why should a handful of states dictate to the rest who should be the candidate?

Let us all choose at the same time like we do on Election Day in November. And don’t release results until Alaska/Hawaii are completed.