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Owner of https://xitter.cf/t.co/o2IxvtsJn7 | Founder of @DinnerInSeconds | MySQL Database Engineer | Web Developer | 18 years experience | Building In Public

Arizona
Joined February 2015
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What a fantastic article!! Claude Code is Great by @Leo_Godin medium.com/p/claude-code-is-…
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I just published Building Your Own Terraform Modules Library: Part 7 — CloudFront Distribution Module medium.com/iac-weekly/buildi…
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I just published Building Your Own Terraform Modules Library: Part 5 — Lambda Function Module medium.com/iac-weekly/buildi…
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We're looking for Infrastructure as Code practitioners who want to share what they know. Terraform, AWS, CloudFormation, Ansible, Pulumi - if you've solved a hard problem or learned something the hard way, we want to hear from you. Details & submission guidelines 👇 medium.com/iac-weekly/write-… #IaC #Terraform #AWS #DevOps #CloudComputing #TechWriting
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If you use AI in your development workflow AT ALL, you NEED to read this article. I started using the Prompt Contract format listed in the article and after only a couple of days, I've already noticed a significant improvement in my Claude Code output medium.com/@rentierdigital/i…
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Every AWS resource needs permissions. Lambda → CloudWatch Logs EC2 → S3 access Amplify → CloudFront That's why the first module in my library is IAM Policy. Simple, foundational, endlessly reusable: medium.com/@desertwebdesigns… #Terraform #AWS #InfrastructureAsCode #DevOps
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Setting up a Terraform modules library? Don't skip the foundation: ✅ Service-based folders ✅ Semantic versioning ✅ Git hooks for validation ✅ Automated quality checks Part 1.5: Repository setup that scales medium.com/@desertwebdesigns… #AWS #Terraform #DevOps
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16 years ago, I was asked in an interview what I thought the most important MySQL configuration setting is. I didn't have a good answer at the time. The interviewer gave me the answer he was looking for and, to this day, I still agree with it! medium.com/@desertwebdesigns…
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I used to spend hours clicking through AWS Console manually configuring infrastructure. Then I discovered Terraform. Now I define entire cloud environments in code. Here's why it changed everything (and how to build your own modules library): medium.com/@desertwebdesigns…
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When prompting AI for code, I find it useful to end with a phrase like "Ask any questions you have before you begin." This often results in the AI asking questions about edge cases I hadn't considered
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No matter how long you have been coding, you will still feel that same joy when you successfully debug a code.
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Do you ever compliment or thank the AI when they do something awesome, like write a suite of 130+ unit and integration tests and they all pass on the first try? I don't always, but do sometimes just for kicks #BuildInPublic
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Claude Code sub-agents are incredible!! It definitely took a few hours of configuring to get them to where I want them (and I'm sure will require more), but they're running and working phenomenally right now! Have you used them yet? Drop a comment #BuildInPublic
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