Mastodawn

This November, I'm fundraising for Fairfax CASA, a non-profit organization that serves kids in Fairfax County (VA) who entered the child welfare system after experiencing abuse or neglect.

Your donation can change a child’s story. Please give if you can 🙏
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/fairfax-court-appointed-special-advocates-inc/facial-fuzz-for-fairfax-casa/pietro-rea-1

Pietro Rea May 28, 2025

"Human users, also known as _human identities_, are the people, administrators, developers, operators, and consumers of your applications."

1st line of the IAM Best practices doc https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-users-federation-idp

Security best practices in IAM - AWS Identity and Access Management

Follow these best practices for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help secure your AWS account and resources.

Pietro Rea May 27, 2025

My Memorial Day project: build a Corsi Rosenthal box. Behold my new DIY air purifier made of four MERV 13 furnace filters and a box fan.

Pietro Rea May 26, 2025

Logged into the @NYTimes app after a while (I mostly read the WSJ). Even after years away from iOS development I can tell within the span of one scroll that I’m looking at a web view. It’s all about that deceleration rate.

Pietro Rea May 18, 2025

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉May 18, 2025

This looks incredible: https://github.com/dm-zharov/swift-security?tab=readme-ov-file

GitHub - dm-zharov/swift-security: Modern Swift framework for Keychain API. Supports iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS

Modern Swift framework for Keychain API. Supports iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS - dm-zharov/swift-security

GitHub

Pietro Rea Apr 26, 2025

Pay walled but a very good read https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-careers-job-market-changes-bfe36c1f

Pietro Rea Apr 26, 2025

I appreciated the inclusion of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (the only Tolstoy I've read to completion!) in Severance. The show portrays the book with a big old tome when it's really < 150 pages.

Pietro Rea Apr 25, 2025

Meadow's CX team is growing! 📣 We’re hiring an Account Manager to lead university partner implementations and help scale Meadow Pay nationwide.

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pR4Xig_WR-vm-AEkSsngyyugDno75ANddeTPCBjjzoU/edit?tab=t.0

Pay Account Manager JD

Account Manager Apply here About Us Meadow is the first modern fintech platform transforming the $500 billion U.S. higher education payments industry by solving the dual complexities of the tuition payment process for students and accounts receivables for universities. We are expanding our busin...

Google Docs

Pietro Rea Apr 25, 2025

Meadow got a shoutout in @bloomberg this morning. We worked with the Bloomberg team to provide data for this article. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-college-cost-middle-class-squeeze/

Pietro Rea Apr 25, 2025

Re-imported my RSS feeds into @thunderbird. One of the first sentences to pop up from one of my subscriptions:

> "Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore."