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https://www.dylanbarlett.com

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dbarlett··on Launching Route 53 Files
I left 18 months ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but there was at least an overall style guide, one for each post type (e.g. a launch announcement), and the style for procedures (inherited from AWS Docs).
dbarlett··on Launching Route 53 Files
Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.
dbarlett··on Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE
A single paragraph in Taylor v. Taintor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_v._Taintor
dbarlett··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
dbarlett··on An IBM computer learned to sing in 1961
I inherited a Southern Bell promotional card/record that includes Daisy Bell:

https://dbarlett-wordpress.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-con...

https://dbarlett-wordpress.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/wp-con...

dbarlett··on How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
Was it AvantGo?
dbarlett··on Getting a 787 back in the air after a diversion
Probably the same incident:https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/airliner-repair-247...
dbarlett··on What I learned at work this year
I think his vision of smartphones has held up well. From page 74 of my hardcover copy of The Road Ahead:

What do you carry on your person now? Probably at least keys, identification, money, and a watch. Quite possibly you also carry credit cards, a checkbook, traveler's checks, an address book, an appointment book, a notepad, reading material, a camera, a pocket tape recorder, a cellular phone, a pager, concert tickets, a map, a compass, a calculator, an electronic entry card, photographs, and perhaps a loud whistle to summon help.

You'll be able to keep all these and more in another information appliance we call the wallet PC.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A2o-6_WCYAAaNw5.jpg:large

dbarlett··on Hacker News equivalent for other fields
https://www.pprune.org/ Professional Pilots Rumour Network

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php FlyerTalk

dbarlett··on SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
Or temporarily from medication, particularly those used to treat erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hyperplasia [1][2].

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

[2] https://www.leftseat.com/viagra.htm

dbarlett··on Lasers activate killer instinct in mice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
dbarlett··on Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar [video]
https://web.archive.org/web/20061029111228/http://www.itplay...
dbarlett··on New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
I started with a manually-packaged Python function and credstash [1] to store credentials for non-AWS services. It gets invoked nightly by CloudWatch and has been bulletproof for months. I recently built a microservice [2] for Election Day with Flask and deployed it behind API Gateway with Zappa [3]. Lambda isn't for every use case, but for those it is, I'm bullish.

[1] https://github.com/fugue/credstash

[2] https://topics.arlingtonva.us/2016/11/voter-registration-sea...

[3] https://www.zappa.io/

dbarlett··on The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
mailcheck [1] is great for this, especially when supplemented with your users' most popular email domains.

[1] https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck

dbarlett··on Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
I just enabled it and received an HTTP/2.0 response without invalidating.
dbarlett··on AWS Application Load Balancer
They do, but it doesn't work if the ELB is in a VPC.
dbarlett··on Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
SQLite
dbarlett··on Microsoft Flow
It's not mentioned on the landing page, but Flow integrates with PowerApps [1]. The PowerApps console shows Flows [2], and PowerApps can trigger Flows [3].

[1] https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/

[2] http://i.imgur.com/dKxw9Tz.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/UjJ7Bcg.png

dbarlett··on FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
The NSA has their own fab at Ft. Meade [1] and pays IBM to run one in Vermont [2].

[1] http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-9/iss...

[2] http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/04/0203/art1.html

dbarlett··on Show HN: Turn GitHub Usernames into Emails
Install Flanker [1] and you can do it locally. Just make sure your ISP/firewall allows outgoing SMTP connections on port 25, and ideally have Redis running for caching [2].

[1] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker/

[2] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker/blob/master/docs/User%20M...

dbarlett··on When Movies Fly: How Modern Internet Experience Is Made Possible by Airplanes
Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking http://ipnsig.org/introducing-delay-disruption-tolerant-netw...
dbarlett··on NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (2006) [pdf]
I enjoy reading http://www.vententersearch.com/ for this sort of stuff.
dbarlett··on Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS
Google Contributor [1] is basically that.

[1] https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

dbarlett··on When America Dreamed of a Nuclear-Powered Cargo Fleet
Savannah is currently docked in Baltimore [1] and usually open to the public on National Maritime Day in May and Labor Day [2].

[1] http://imgur.com/TMXfrKU

[2] http://www.ns-savannah.org/

dbarlett··on Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half [video]
I highly recommend ordering one. The checkout process, packaging, and invoice are almost as good as the bottle itself.
dbarlett··on Coliving: Dorms for Grownups
The Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 http://www.manufacturedhousing.org/publications/default.asp?...
dbarlett··on Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
If you're curious, Forest Service signs are specified by Sign and Poster Guidelines Engineering Manual EM7100-15 [1].

[1] http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3810021...

dbarlett··on AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
S3 and VPC themselves appear to be fine, as noted on the dashboard, but the S3 VPC endpoints in EC2 are not ("we are also experiencing increased error rates accessing VPC endpoints for S3"). I was able to restore my sites by removing the endpoints from the routing tables.
dbarlett··on Clarification on “Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster”
I really like jerf's take on it [1]:

    How a project performs today tells you the zeroth derivative of its location.
    Looking at the commit log tells you about the first derivative. How people react
    to Call Me Maybe when its about their product gives you a lot of information
    about the second derivative.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10082099

Edit: username

dbarlett··on Welcome Anne, Ben, and Joe

    What will rise up and be the new YC for unconnected 18 year olds?
That's the idea behind the Thiel Fellowship [1].

[1] http://www.thielfellowship.org/apply/

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