I dropped my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro from 6th floor balcony to the street
Gravity 1 – Google Pixel 9 Pro XL 0 Tonight I went to my friend’s place. Great conversation, good laughs, zero awareness of physics. By the time I got home, it was 02:00 AM, that dangerous hour where confidence is high and grip strength is low. As usual, before bed, I stepped onto my lovely…
AWS S3 New Feature: Re-encryption without Movement
The recent release of the UpdateObjectEncryption API marks a significant shift in how we manage data security at scale. Historically, changing the encryption of an S3 object was a “physical” operation; you had to move the bits. Now, it’s a “logical” metadata operation. Technical Deep Dive: Re-encryption without Movement The “magic” behind this update lies…
I Built TrumpDaily to Track Donald Trump Without the Noise
Look, tracking Trump is exhausting. The man dominates headlines across BBC, Guardian, NPR, Al Jazeera, and even Babylon Bee. Checking 10+ sites daily? No thanks. So I built Trump Daily! It’s a self-hosted RSS aggregator that dumps everything into one clean interface. https://trumpdaily.site was born! And honestly? This was the most fun I’ve had coding…
AWS Monthly (Dec ’25): The Kiro Era Begins
We ended the year with the General Availability of Kiro (Frontier Agents). Kiro is not just a chatbot; it’s a Virtual Software Development Team. Technically, Kiro is an Autonomous Coding Agent. You can assign it a ticket from Jira, and it will: It understands the context of your entire codebase, not just a single file.…
AWS re:Invent 2025: The “Agentic” Era
If 2024 was about talking to LLMs, re:Invent 2025 was about letting them actually do the work. Here is the comprehensive breakdown of the most significant announcements. 1. The Amazon Nova 2 Model Family AWS didn’t just update their models; they built a specialized fleet for different agentic roles: 2. Custom Silicon: Graviton5 & Trainium3…
When Spotify’s Share-to-Instagram Flow Turns Into a Free Billboard
Earlier this week, I tried sharing a song on Instagram Stories “Füsun Önal – Ah Nerede“, the 2004 release. Spotify → Share → Instagram. Something we all do a thousand times. But instead of the album cover, Instagram opened with a completely unrelated person’s Instagram profile screenshot. Not mine. Not Spotify’s. Someone else’s essentially a…
AWS Monthly (Nov ’25) The Stateful Serverless Revolution
November and re:Invent 2025 brought us the “holy grail” of serverless: AWS Lambda Durable Functions. This feature introduces “Stateful Serverless” directly into the Lambda runtime. By using the new withDurableExecution wrapper, you can now write long-running workflows that persist for up to one year. When your function hits a context.wait() call, the compute is suspended…
AWS Monthly (Oct ’25): Industrializing AI Training
October was the “Quiet before the re:Invent storm,” but it brought the unveiling of Project Rainier. Project Rainier is a massive AI compute cluster featuring over 500,000 Trainium2 chips. Technically, this is one of the largest dedicated AI training environments on the planet. For us, it means the “Industrialization of AI.” The price-to-performance ratio of…
When the Cloud Sneezes, the World Catches a Cold – Lessons from the us-east-1 Meltdown
Today, once again, half the internet went dark not because of a global power failure or a cyber-attack, but because a single AWS region, us-east-1 (N. Virginia), had a bad day. Perplexity went down. Amazon itself stumbled. Substack, Signal, Fortnite, and countless others vanished into the ether. Even services like Statuspage.io, used by companies to…