Local DynamoDB Grew Up: A Hands-On Look at ExtendDB
DynamoDB Local has been the laptop stand-in for AWS DynamoDB since 2013. It’s a Java JAR, runs in memory or against a SQLite file, accepts almost any request shape, has no real auth, and treats Streams pretty loosely. It’s fine for unit tests. It starts to crack the moment your code does anything beyond PutItem…
How I Found a Hidden Cloudflare Bug on a Sunday mid-night (The joy of curl)
It was supposed to be a quick weekend project. You know the kind: “I’ll just spin up an egress VM, route some traffic through it, sip my coffee, and be done by lunch.” Reader, I was not done by lunch. The Setup I was building a small access tier for some dev environments: an egress…
Why Your SSH Is Yelling About Quantum Computers (And How to Fix It)
You SSH into your server and see this: Scary. Let’s break it down. The Threat: Store Now, Decrypt Later Today’s SSH encryption is mathematically strong; breaking it would take a classical computer millions of years. But quantum computers play by different rules. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm can break the math that…
IaC-First: Why I am Never Touch the AWS Console in Production
“Never touch the AWS console in production” sounds like an extreme rule. It is not. It is the most important operational discipline in a cloud-native team, and the cost of violating it accumulates silently until it causes a major incident. This post explains why, and how to enforce IaC-first development in a real team. The…
Someone Registered antrophic.com and Points It Straight to OpenAI
A typo-squatted domain, a suspicious redirect, and a little too much to be called a coincidence. Here’s the real domain: anthropic.com. The AI safety company behind Claude, founded by former OpenAI researchers, doing genuinely important work on making AI systems safe and interpretable. Now try mistyping it. Drop the second “h”. You get antrophic.com —…
Cutting Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base Costs by ~90%: Migrating from OpenSearch Serverless to Aurora Serverless v2 with pgvector
TL;DR If you are running an Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base backed by OpenSearch Serverless (AOSS), you are paying a ~$700/month floor before you ingest a single document. For most small and mid-sized RAG workloads, swapping AOSS for Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 with the pgvector extension drops that floor to under $50/month a ~90% cost reduction;…
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…