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William Johnston Tech Links 17h ago

https://markatwood.substack.com/p/how-amazon-dies-a-possible-maybe

Worth a read.

How Amazon Dies: A Possible, Maybe Likely Future

The everything store is still there. You still can’t find anything in it.

Words about Thoughts

William Johnston Tech Links 17h ago

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-and-others-invest-12-5m-to-defend-the-open-source-ecosystem-from-ai-threats/

I'm pretty much always glad to see money going to open source. This press release is… slightly absurd.

AWS and Others Invest $12.5M to Defend the Open Source Ecosystem from AI Threats | Amazon Web Services

AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI today announced a joint $12.5 million investment with the Linux Foundation to help open source projects address a surge in AI-enhanced and AI-generated security vulnerability reports. Both the Alpha Omega initiative and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) will receive funding through the Linux Foundation grants. Software security is at […]

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William Johnston Tech Links 17h ago

But seriously, Kagi is amazing. I pay for it and use it heavily, and I'm so happy to see them continue to expand their offerings.

William Johnston Tech Links 17h ago

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=linkedin&ck_subscriber_id=512840730&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%5BLast+Week+in+AWS%5D+Issue+&text=It%27s+so+cool+that+Kagi+has+a+silly+%22LinkedIn+Speak%22+target+language.

🚀 Thrilled to share how game-changing it is that Kagi has introduced a "LinkedIn Speak" target language! 📈 It’s all about leveraging innovative tools to disrupt the status quo and elevate our communication strategy. 💡 Innovation meets impact. #GrowthMindset #Innovation #Networking #AgileCommunication #GameChanger

Kagi Translate

Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.

William Johnston Tech Links 5d ago

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/239-mac-neo-and-my-afternoon-of-reflection

I appreciate Sinofsky comparing where the Mac Neo to Microsoft's attempt to build Windows RT. I still have an RT Surface at home, and the main annoyance I have with it is that MS decided to make it so locked down that to this day I can't run anything on it…

239. Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago. Being early is no different than being wrong…mostly.

Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

William Johnston Tech Links 5d ago

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs

This is a hilarious simulation of that XKCD cartoon with physics. My only complaint is that there seems to be effectively no friction.

p5.js Web Editor

A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.

William Johnston Tech Links 5d ago

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=106528

Fun old stories

Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker - The Old New Thing

Just keep it under wraps.

The Old New Thing

William Johnston Tech Links 5d ago

https://tty.neveragain.de/2024/05/20/aws-ipv6-egress.html

Always interesting to see the progress in IPv6-only AWS accounts.

AWS: Egress Traffic and Using AWS Services via IPv6

An overview of the available options for IPv6 egress traffic on AWS and a quick intro to using AWS services via IPv6

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William Johnston Tech Links Mar 12

Slight rant: I really, really want to implement Passkeys on my websites. The current UX is horrible. The proposed "immediate mediation" feature would solve so many issues and allow me to ship some of this. But a bunch of folks are worried about _tracking_, so it's getting slow-walked in some contexts. So I keep using passwords or emailed magic links. 😡

William Johnston Tech Links Mar 5

TIL: IPv6 link local address don't work in Firefox or Chrome-based browsers.