Jon Topper
@topper.me.uk
Founder, @scalefactory.com (The AWS SaaS Experts)
AWS Ambassador.
Food enthusiast. Polyam.
Based in Yorkshire, UK
he/him
AWS Ambassador.
Food enthusiast. Polyam.
Based in Yorkshire, UK
he/him
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Wed 14 Jan 2026, AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion
🎤 @topper.me.uk will cover what mattered, what didn’t, and what’s useful now vs later.
Then - open discussion, so bring your questions + hot takes.
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #CloudComputing #DevOps #Serverless #AWSCommunity #AWSCloud
🎤 @topper.me.uk will cover what mattered, what didn’t, and what’s useful now vs later.
Then - open discussion, so bring your questions + hot takes.
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #CloudComputing #DevOps #Serverless #AWSCommunity #AWSCloud
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wed 14 Jan 2026, AWS re:Invent 2025 Recap & Discussion
🎤 @topper.me.uk will cover what mattered, what didn’t, and what’s useful now vs later.
Then - open discussion, so bring your questions + hot takes.
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #CloudComputing #DevOps #Serverless #AWSCommunity #AWSCloud
🎤 @topper.me.uk will cover what mattered, what didn’t, and what’s useful now vs later.
Then - open discussion, so bring your questions + hot takes.
www.meetup.com/awsuguk/even...
#AWS #CloudComputing #DevOps #Serverless #AWSCommunity #AWSCloud
Honestly can’t tell what’s more stupid: football itself; FIFA inventing a “peace prize”; or the idea that tangerine hitler deserves it. This is the absolute fucking dumbest timeline. Brawndo for our crops next.
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Honestly can’t tell what’s more stupid: football itself; FIFA inventing a “peace prize”; or the idea that tangerine hitler deserves it. This is the absolute fucking dumbest timeline. Brawndo for our crops next.
CMV: These are just Niknaks
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
CMV: These are just Niknaks
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Ok, @topper.me.uk here for the final AWS re:Invent keynote of the year. This one is Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and unusually it's just an hour long - which is probably for the best, because it's pretty late here in the UK.
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ok, @topper.me.uk here for the final AWS re:Invent keynote of the year. This one is Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and unusually it's just an hour long - which is probably for the best, because it's pretty late here in the UK.
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Sorry, @topper.me.uk again. It's time for the Infrastructure Innovations keynote from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. In this keynote we usually expect to hear Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown talk about some of the impressive feats of engineering that keep this hyperscaler up and running.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sorry, @topper.me.uk again. It's time for the Infrastructure Innovations keynote from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. In this keynote we usually expect to hear Peter DeSantis and Dave Brown talk about some of the impressive feats of engineering that keep this hyperscaler up and running.
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I'm happy to share we have a fresh aws-vault release v7.8.0 including some cool features like custom endpoint URL, extended package support with NixOS, latest dep updates and others 🚀
Glad to see active #OSS community involvement and helping keeping the project active!
github.com/ByteNess/aws...
Glad to see active #OSS community involvement and helping keeping the project active!
github.com/ByteNess/aws...
Releases · ByteNess/aws-vault
A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments - ByteNess/aws-vault
github.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I'm happy to share we have a fresh aws-vault release v7.8.0 including some cool features like custom endpoint URL, extended package support with NixOS, latest dep updates and others 🚀
Glad to see active #OSS community involvement and helping keeping the project active!
github.com/ByteNess/aws...
Glad to see active #OSS community involvement and helping keeping the project active!
github.com/ByteNess/aws...
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"Agentic AI makes it cheaper for us to get to space". Sure, Jan.
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Agentic AI makes it cheaper for us to get to space". Sure, Jan.
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Hello again! @topper.me.uk here reporting from the second AWS re:Invent keynote, this time given by Dr Swami Sivasubramanian. The keynote is titled "The Future of Agentic AI is Here" which might well mean we get less Sagemaker and other data content today, but let's see.
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hello again! @topper.me.uk here reporting from the second AWS re:Invent keynote, this time given by Dr Swami Sivasubramanian. The keynote is titled "The Future of Agentic AI is Here" which might well mean we get less Sagemaker and other data content today, but let's see.
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Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.
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Amazon Quick appears to have way more to it than when I last looked. It's been rolled out across Amazon, and everyone's getting value from it apparently. The image I have is of Garman, standing over the rest of the business, pushing dogfood into everyone's face, one wobbly spoonful at a time
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Amazon Quick appears to have way more to it than when I last looked. It's been rolled out across Amazon, and everyone's getting value from it apparently. The image I have is of Garman, standing over the rest of the business, pushing dogfood into everyone's face, one wobbly spoonful at a time
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(Imagine being an AI model that's trained to moderate Reddit. The horrors you'd have to subject it to).
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
(Imagine being an AI model that's trained to moderate Reddit. The horrors you'd have to subject it to).
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Right, @topper.me.uk here - it's AWS re:Invent keynote time! Today, CEO Matt Garman opens proceedings. I'll be covering it as best I can from here in the UK, where I'm grateful not to have been awake from 4am, and then crammed into a keynote theatre (or "theater" as they call it there).
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Right, @topper.me.uk here - it's AWS re:Invent keynote time! Today, CEO Matt Garman opens proceedings. I'll be covering it as best I can from here in the UK, where I'm grateful not to have been awake from 4am, and then crammed into a keynote theatre (or "theater" as they call it there).
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Hello! @topper.me.uk here. It has been quiet of late hasn't it? Well, luckily for me, there's no algorithm to penalise that, and luckily for you it's AWS re:Invent time again, so you get to see a barrage of updates from me on the topic.
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hello! @topper.me.uk here. It has been quiet of late hasn't it? Well, luckily for me, there's no algorithm to penalise that, and luckily for you it's AWS re:Invent time again, so you get to see a barrage of updates from me on the topic.
Satire is dead.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Satire is dead.
Surprising no one.
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Surprising no one.
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A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
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I wish the alternative to technology made by evil corporations was not technology made by deranged libertarians.
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I wish the alternative to technology made by evil corporations was not technology made by deranged libertarians.
Shill harder, dickheads.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Shill harder, dickheads.
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
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Get your establishment wrong-un name by adding HRH Prince before your name, removing it, and double hyphening what remains with cake and an English town.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Get your establishment wrong-un name by adding HRH Prince before your name, removing it, and double hyphening what remains with cake and an English town.
Absolutely not.
There are to many cheeses.
It should be reduced to four:
Cheddar, Stilton, Mozzarella, and Parmesan.
It should be reduced to four:
Cheddar, Stilton, Mozzarella, and Parmesan.
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Absolutely not.
Dude wandering through the airport with his headphones in, and the audiobook he’s listening to blaring out of the speaker from the phone in his pocket.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Dude wandering through the airport with his headphones in, and the audiobook he’s listening to blaring out of the speaker from the phone in his pocket.
The Andrew formerly known as Prince.
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince.
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.