Aidan Steele

@awsteele.com

@__steele on the bird site. Lefty, in every sense of the word. AWS Hero, I mostly post about cloudy things and silly projects I’ve worked on. I also post photos of my dog. He/him.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what “pin to show in Airbnb” means in the iOS messages app. Tapping the link loads the listing in the app. Long-pressing the message yields nothing relevant and tapping the CTA itself does nothing.

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For some incomprehensible reason Instagram has added pregnant capybaras to my search screen. That’s clearly not the kind of content I came to instagram for 😂

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How long should I wait before following up on some missing international mail? My passport was apparently in Dublin over two weeks ago. No updates on the Irish side and not trackable by Aus Post.

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Back in 2022 I started a project I called vpcshark. Since then, AWS has launched three generations of EC2 instances without traffic mirroring support. So I figured I might as well open source it, might be useful to someone. github.com/aidansteele/...

GitHub - aidansteele/vpcshark: An open source Wireshark extcap to make ad hoc mirroring of AWS EC2 traffic easier

An open source Wireshark extcap to make ad hoc mirroring of AWS EC2 traffic easier - aidansteele/vpcshark

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Sitting at the airport, on my way to re:invent for the first time in 5 years. If all goes smoothly I should be checking into my hotel in about 24 hours. See y’all soon.

I finally got around to automatically publishing new versions of my "unofficial AWS CodeBuild base image" project (and migrating to public ECR instead of Docker Hub). If you want custom images without the perf penalty, this is probably up your alley. gallery.ecr.aws/aidansteele/...

ECR Public Gallery

Amazon ECR Public Gallery is a website that allows anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer-provided details, and see pull commands

gallery.ecr.aws

Today I learned that AWS Lambda will only perform automatic de-aggregation of KPL-formatted records when reading from an "enhanced fanout" Kinesis consumer. Apparently the Kinesis docs are unaware of this: they claim that functions need to de-aggregate KPL records themselves.

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I’m home, sans luggage that missed my connecting flight. Qantas says it should arrive tomorrow. I’m not fussed as long as it arrives within the 166 hours until I depart for re:invent 🫠

I’m in SF this week and Waymo is seriously impressive. There’s a billionaire/car company out there claiming that autonomous vehicles are right around the corner, but it feels like they’ve already arrived - in this city, at least.

I really like the call recording and transcription functionality added to iOS. I often forget verbal conversations, so it’s incredibly handy. I had a call with my sister and it nailed the (Aussie English) transcript. Tapping on a word to jump to that part of the recording is a nice touch.

Does anyone else struggle more posting on this place than the other place? Feels like there’s a higher threshold for minimum viable post 😅