Coby

@cobyalmond
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🛡 Vulnerability apologist -🕊 Imago Dei follower -🔭 Modern mystic -🌳 Public Sector - 🎨 Designer - 🤭 Ultra Dad jokes
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Coby3d ago
Coté5d ago
By all accounts, working at Amazon is a tough gig. https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out

Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday.\nI have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company.\nThis past year, while I was doing my best to make AWS play nice in open source communities, there were two main drivers making me unhappy with my job: organizational change and the acceleration of the focus on Generative AI.\n

Adventures in Open Source Software
Show threadCoby6d ago
UI updates today.
CobyMay 27
Made a thing for Logitech Litra users who want their lights to turn on when they join a meeting. https://github.com/cobyalmond/Lumos-Litra Let me know if you use it!
CobyMay 19
Matt SteinMay 18

If you woke up today hoping you’d find out that the U.S. Department of Agriculture commissioned botanical illustrations from 1886–1942 and made high-quality scans available online, I have some great news for you.

https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&collectionId=81279629860007426

CobyApr 22
Today I learned: every stone is a rock but not every rock is a stone.
CobyApr 10

A T-Rex randomly walked down my street, came to my door, and rang the doorbell…

They eventually left after noticing the sign saying “No Solicitaurs”.

CobyMar 27
Getting new customers is hard actually
CobyFeb 4
I’m becoming a real fan of pencil.dev
CobyFeb 3
Alex RussellFeb 3

Seems like a dam is (finally) breaking; here's just a small set of the "wow, Apple...really?" posts from the past week:

https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/tim-cook-sold-apples-soul/
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-5

Liz Lopatto, Anil Dash, and Charlie Warzel were far ahead on all of this.

Tim Cook sold Apple's soul

Apple used to stand for something. Now Tim Cook gifts golden statues to Trump, removes apps at the administration's request, and cozies up to accused rapists at White House screenings. The company I once admired has become morally bankrupt, but leaving the ecosystem feels almost impossible.

Loopwerk
CobyJan 25
Justin SearlsJan 25
Look on the bright side, Apple chose not to ruin Aperture's icon last week. https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older software, but most of my fondness for those days is nostalgia. An exception to that, however, is Apple's Aperture.