Chris Williams☁️🐍
@mistwire.com
Field CTO @sixfeetup AWS Hero Co-Host of vBrownBag We rise by lifting others Fearlessly Stupid™ 🤣 https://linktr.ee/mistwire
Your codebase has answers. Your AI just can't find them. 🤖 LIVE tomorrow (8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com "Context Engineering & Making Your Codebase Queryable" w/ Brian Carpio What context engineering & how to make a codebase queryable for AI agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDoQ...
User groups come, user groups go (R.I.P. VTUG 🥲) Tomorrow (noon ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "How to Build a Thriving Tech Community" Manvendra runs AWS Cloud Club JECRC and we're getting into: - Common mistakes - Lessons learned - Practical takeaways Join us LIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RduJ...
Cool cool cool. Now do: 1. fire departments 2. stadiums 3. police departments 4. ROADS 5. emergency rooms p.s. fuck you.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2w agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
You mean to tell me these "influencers" did the OpenAI brand trip FOR FREE!?!? OPENAI IS WORTH 852 BILLION DOLLARS If you're going to shill for a company THE PUBLIC HATES at least get paid for it 🤦🏻♂️
Anyone got 55 trillion laying around that I can borrow? My AWS bill is due.
Live in 2 hours! Join us for Q&A, punch & pie.
Chris Williams☁️🐍@mistwire.com · last mo.Guardrails, RAG, and a Bedrock demo built for an exam @faye-ellis.bsky.social says is brutal Join us LIVE Wed on @vbrownbag.com (noon ET) "Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock" + real talk on the AWS AI Dev Pro cert www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKD...
Guardrails, RAG, and a Bedrock demo built for an exam @faye-ellis.bsky.social says is brutal Join us LIVE Wed on @vbrownbag.com (noon ET) "Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock" + real talk on the AWS AI Dev Pro cert www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKD...
Join me and Andrew Brown in 1 hour for the kickoff to his Claude Code Camp! We are going to show what we are building, how to do technical documentation of the project, & cover the scope of the build! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvS...
New @vbrownbag.com episode is UP: "Getting into Local AI (2/3)" with Du'An Lightfoot! "GPU memory math, agent architectures, observability, token economics — the stuff nobody explains until your bill arrives." youtu.be/WSalm-rvG2E
Most AI content is built for developers. What about everyone else? Tomorrow at noon ET on @vbrownbag.com - "AI for Normal People" with AWS Hero @hoegertn.de Thorsten is helping SMBs learn to learn AI in a budget-friendly way. Come along as we learn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ6Y... #AI #AWS
AI for Normal People
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AWS re:Invent is $1,799 + flight + hotel. What if AWS just... paid for yours? 👀 Join us LIVE in 30 min on @vbrownbag.com: "How to go to AWS re:Invent FOR FREE" with Dale Orders - The grant programs that can cover your re:Invent ticket - Who's eligible & how to apply youtube.com/@vbrownbag
Yelling at LLM Costs TONIGHT 8:30 PM ET Who's actually paying for all this AI? The @vbrownbag.com Gang talks about: 💸 Frontier model pricing 🖥️ Local models & hidden costs 🏢 What this means for enterprise budgets 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_U... @sixfoot.dad @giftedlane.bsky.social
Getting Started with Local AI with Du'An Lightfoot (1 of 3 part @vbrownbag.com series) is UP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VS1...
Getting Started with Local AI
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Hear @mistwire.com, Global Developer Relations Manager at @hashicorp.com, chat with me about everything from consulting to tech certifications to corporate espionage (sort of) on the latest @redmonk.com MonkCast. redmonk.com/videos/from-... youtube.com/shorts/HKZyS...
Chris Williams on the Consultant's Access Advantage #developer #softwareengineer
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Hey y'all, I'm looking for some work to bridge the gap while I continue working on @cartridge.dev and @happyview.dev. If you have contract work for #atproto projects (planning, code, architecture), I'd be delighted to help. DM me with details. #atproto #OpenToWork #LookingForWork
Have you ever used AI to help build a Terraform environment and it was... underwhelming? Well LOOK NO FURTHER 😆 Today on @vbrownbag.com - Teaching AI to Terraform (So We Don't Have To!) with Sam McGeown! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpwj...
I bet a million dollars he doesn't know what "kinetic" means
Tomorrow @ noon on @vbrownbag.com: "Cloud Credibility: Marketing Yourself in the AWS Era" with AWS Community Builder Janvi Bhagchandani! In this episode we deploy a personal website using AWS services: S3, CloudFront, and (optionally) Amplify or Lambda! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE5R...
Last weeks @vbrownbag.com is UP: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol ! In this episode we got into a bunch of topics: Horror movies, cannibalism, contributing to open source, burnout, how we (sometimes) destroy the things we love😅 youtu.be/h7FGF3BaJ2I
Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source
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This week (8:30PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol Listen in as we (maybe) talk about: - OSS contributions! - If we shouldn't eat people, why are they so darn tasty? - Wine pairings www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh6...
🐍📰 Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews #python
Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Movie Reviews
In this tutorial, you'll learn about sentiment analysis and how it works in Python. You'll then build your own sentiment analysis classifier with spaCy that can predict whether a movie review is positive or negative.
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The Tech Field Day News Rundown ▶️ buff.ly/RLeD3SL AI's Big Mistakes Allianz Big Data Hack White House AI Action Plan Palo Alto to acquire @CyberArk Commvault to acquire Satori Cyber Mass Layoffs Hit Intel @NetworkingNerd.net @TechFieldDay.com #TFDRundown #AI #CyberSecurity #ITNews #IntelLayoffs
Mass Layoffs Hit Intel | Tech Field Day News Rundown: July 30, 2025
Intel is cutting about 24,000 jobs this year—roughly a quarter of its core workforce—as part of a major restructuring led by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The company is canceling projects in Germany and…
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Stu Miniman@stu.bsky.social · last yr.Come join 2 tall guys for a conversation about community, cloud, open source, and of course AI @mistwire.com on In The Clouds next Thursday 17 July 11am ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Seh... #cloud #AI #opensource #community
This week (7/16 @ 8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "DevOps is a Foreign Language (Or Why There Are No Junior SREs)" w/ @joshleecreates.bsky.social! We chat with him about what DevOps is, why it's so hard to define, and why there really aren't any "junior" SREs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOL8...
Join us July 17th for fun with me and @stu.bsky.social !
Stu Miniman@stu.bsky.social · last yr.Come join 2 tall guys for a conversation about community, cloud, open source, and of course AI @mistwire.com on In The Clouds next Thursday 17 July 11am ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Seh... #cloud #AI #opensource #community
Join Jenn Bergstrom & the vBrownBag crew as we dive into the world of Chaos Engineering, exploring how its principles can be applied to machine learning models of all kinds, from classic machine learning to cutting-edge LLMs! Wednesday 7/2 @ 730p CT youtube.com/live/x--Ip4M...
Last weeks @vbrownbag.com is UP: "How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with a little help from MCPs)" In this episode @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social, Tech Lead at Block, talks about: vibe coding, MCPs, some pitfalls... and how to do it right 🥳 youtu.be/7E7F_dKO0xE
How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with a little help from MCPs)
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