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Olan

@olanb7

software / #serverless / sarcasm / @instil

 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined January 2009
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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It’s rhetoric like this that leads to threats on pitches. It’s rhetoric like this that encourages the harassment I literally just faced in my local park. This is normalised hatred and it needs to stop.
Cllr Ron McDowell (@CllrRonMcDowell) profile pictureCllr Ron McDowell@CllrRonMcDowell17 Sep 2024
Inspite of their posturing we know the DUP have agreed to fund Casement Park from DoC. They should now join TUV and withhold any such monies until the GAA abandon terror links, move away from their political status and become a sporting association in truest sense of the word.
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Best slide of the day by @matt_codes 😂
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🏁🏁🏁 In case you missed it, @instil and @vsltd are running a FREE Capture the Flag event today as part of CyberNI Week. 🏁🏁🏁 Thank you to everyone who registered. We could have filled the class 3-times over such was the uptake. We'll be announcing another event soon :)
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Finally, some acknowledgment. Congrats on another great delivery @matt_codes! – at Castlereagh, Northern Ireland
David Anderson (@davidand393) profile pictureDavid Anderson@davidand3935 Feb 2024
Another massive delivery of the serverless first talk with Stroll and @instil by @matt_codes at the Belfast recap with @AWSUserGroups with added goodness from The Frugal Architect by @Werner Gets better every time!
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Apparently AWS requested @matt_codes remove the “Thank you @olanb7” slide! Worth a watch regardless. – at Castlereagh, Northern Ireland
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Would love to see the comparison on arts @ianjamesparsley.. – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ian James Parsley (@ianjamesparsley) profile pictureIan James Parsley@ianjamesparsley13 Dec 2023
I think those who have argued for a “fiscal floor” for NI deserve credit that it is now happening - it is a not inconsiderable concession from an England-dominated government. Nevertheless, it deflects from a further important point - how do we spend our money in NI? 1/9
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Serverless apps have a different risk profile to serverful apps. Much of our app is outside of our code as we delegate many responsibilities to managed services. That's why the "test honeycomb" is a much better fit for us, check out this 📽️ to learn more: youtube.com/watch?v=p3M1Y2Oi…
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Does @clerk support Cognito Identity Pools? Looks great, but can't see a way to integrate with AWS services.
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There are principals and then there are principles. Hannah is the former and she just so happens to love the sport of powerlifting. This is her story (part 1) of how the challenges of competitive sport have helped her become a better (principal) engineer.
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Nice, @matt_codes! – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
Jeremy Daly (@jeremy_daly) profile pictureJeremy Daly
@jeremy_daly16 May 2023
Issue #234 of Off-by-none is out! This week, #AI is on everyone’s roadmap, we think about @DynamoDB costs, and we converse about conversational programming. Plus, we recognize @matt_codes as our ⭐️ of the week! #offbynone #serverless offbynone.io/issues/234/
Is serverless the key to conversational programming? 🤔 - Off-by-none

Is serverless the key to conversational programming? 🤔 - Off-by-none

In this issue, AI is on everyone's roadmap, we think about DynamoDB costs, and we converse about conversational programming.

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💯 Banger from Allen here. Limit your complexity.
Allen Helton (@AllenHeltonDev) profile pictureAllen Helton@AllenHeltonDev3 May 2023
Who's ready for a hot take 🔥? We're making Lambda too hard. readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.…
Are We Making Lambda Too Hard? | Ready, Set, Cloud!

Are We Making Lambda Too Hard? | Ready, Set, Cloud!

Hot take alert! Some of the "best practices" we're seeing nowadays are taking the simplicity of Lambda and throwing it right out the door.

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Would love to see Evan Ferguson at #nufc Howe would make him into a monster! 🇮🇪 – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Depressing. – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
Belfast Live (@BelfastLive) profile pictureBelfast Live@BelfastLive31 Mar 2023
A primary school in Belfast has been intimidated following a GAA taster event held for young children on its grounds belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfa…
Primary school 'intimidated' following children's GAA event

Primary school 'intimidated' following children's GAA event

The school received "intimidatory comments" following the taster session

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We are living in future. The first ever conversational holographic AI companion powered by ChatGPT 🤯 Far better than Siri, Alexa and Google assistant 👇
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Listening to @virtualgill talk about AI has made me question a number of decisions... The AI FOMO is real. #AWSCloudDay
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Give @C_Wilson_03 a follow if you’re a student who wants to learn more about #AWS and cloud development. @QUBEEECS @ComMat @ComputingUU – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
Caleb Wilson (@C_Wilson_03) profile pictureCaleb Wilson@C_Wilson_0321 Mar 2023
Can’t wait to get started as an AWS cloud club captain. As one of the 50 selected I’ll be organising some exciting meet-ups in Belfast for students who are eager to learn more about AWS and cloud computing. Keep an eye out! #AWSCloudClubs #StudentsBuildOn #AWSCaptainAboard
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ISAK 90+3 🇸🇪🎯 RIGHT UP THERE WITH LIMBS OF THE SEASON!!!! 🤯🤯🤯
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Welcome @matt_codes from @instil for our next talk! #ServerlessDaysBelfast
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