Robert Sweetman
@robertsweetman.bsky.social
DevOps, Rust, Lifting, Meditation. I am enough. Mistake Not...
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Just got an AWS Lambda working in Rust that gets website data, sends it to Claude for analysis and posts the results as Json to S3 all managed by GitHub pipelines and Terraform. I feel I have achieved peak buzzword driven development at this point 🤣 Also YAY!! 😃
So 2026 is basically going to have to be the year I properly learn Rust 🦀 Wish me luck.
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
So 2026 is basically going to have to be the year I properly learn Rust 🦀 Wish me luck.
Appears that attempting to stand still isn't an option. Looks like it's time for Rob 2.0 and all the work that entails.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Appears that attempting to stand still isn't an option. Looks like it's time for Rob 2.0 and all the work that entails.
Debugging AWS Lambda failures is an awful experience... It's probably something I am doing wrong with my setup but still... Time to go read some documentation and find a way to do it better.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Debugging AWS Lambda failures is an awful experience... It's probably something I am doing wrong with my setup but still... Time to go read some documentation and find a way to do it better.
I think the problem I am starting to experience with AI coding is that when it comes to changing something it takes far longer.
Since I reckon it takes about 2 rewrites to produce something production hardened, this is a bit of an issue.
Since I reckon it takes about 2 rewrites to produce something production hardened, this is a bit of an issue.
September 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I think the problem I am starting to experience with AI coding is that when it comes to changing something it takes far longer.
Since I reckon it takes about 2 rewrites to produce something production hardened, this is a bit of an issue.
Since I reckon it takes about 2 rewrites to produce something production hardened, this is a bit of an issue.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
Rails Needs New Governance
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
davidcel.is
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
Well, looks like the Ruby community is blowing its own foot off this morning.
September 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Well, looks like the Ruby community is blowing its own foot off this morning.
Chat Gippity is basically cannon at this point, right? Like always saying Claude with a French accent?
August 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Chat Gippity is basically cannon at this point, right? Like always saying Claude with a French accent?
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We use Zed to run our meetings, using our collaboration tooling. We organize our projects via Markdown in our channel notes.
Here, we are prioritizing work we are doing for Zed's official Windows support.
www.windowswen.com
Here, we are prioritizing work we are doing for Zed's official Windows support.
www.windowswen.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We use Zed to run our meetings, using our collaboration tooling. We organize our projects via Markdown in our channel notes.
Here, we are prioritizing work we are doing for Zed's official Windows support.
www.windowswen.com
Here, we are prioritizing work we are doing for Zed's official Windows support.
www.windowswen.com
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This Thursday: join us for "Building the future of AI coding with MCP in VS Code and Claude", a live webinar that dives deep into the MCP ecosystem, how to build MCP servers, and live demos of agent mode powered by Claude.
🗓️ July 24
🕙 10:00 AM PST
Register now: www.anthropic.com/webinars/fut...
🗓️ July 24
🕙 10:00 AM PST
Register now: www.anthropic.com/webinars/fut...
July 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This Thursday: join us for "Building the future of AI coding with MCP in VS Code and Claude", a live webinar that dives deep into the MCP ecosystem, how to build MCP servers, and live demos of agent mode powered by Claude.
🗓️ July 24
🕙 10:00 AM PST
Register now: www.anthropic.com/webinars/fut...
🗓️ July 24
🕙 10:00 AM PST
Register now: www.anthropic.com/webinars/fut...
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AI rebranding...
woody and buzz lightyear from toy story are standing next to each other and saying `` everywhere ! ''
Alt: woody and buzz lightyear from toy story are standing next to each other and saying `` everywhere ! ''
media.tenor.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
AI rebranding...
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New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job
nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...
nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...
I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job
For the past 3.75 years I have been fortunate to work on Futurewei’s Rust team, where I had enormous freedom to “make Rust better” however I see fit. It has been the highlight of my career and I am gr...
nnethercote.github.io
July 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job
nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...
nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...
Doing machine learning using tokenizers for short sentences. Pretty interesting, much to my surprise.
July 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Doing machine learning using tokenizers for short sentences. Pretty interesting, much to my surprise.
Rust, still kicking my ass
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Rust, still kicking my ass
Lambdas, internet access and Terraform kicking my arse today
June 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Lambdas, internet access and Terraform kicking my arse today
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Fucking hell America you are so broken and deluded, jeez. I don't think you're coming back from this if I'm quite honest.
June 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Fucking hell America you are so broken and deluded, jeez. I don't think you're coming back from this if I'm quite honest.
My AWS lambda project has started costing me actual money 💰💰 Shiiiiiit 🤣🤔😅
June 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My AWS lambda project has started costing me actual money 💰💰 Shiiiiiit 🤣🤔😅
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Almost interchangeable quotes.
May 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Almost interchangeable quotes.
I'm writing Rust and thinking about looking at NixOs. Just got to start using NeoVim and my annoying developer persona will be complete 🤣
May 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm writing Rust and thinking about looking at NixOs. Just got to start using NeoVim and my annoying developer persona will be complete 🤣
Bit of tweaking of the Zyxel 5G antenna and getting just over 500Mbps download speed. Mental 🤣
May 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Bit of tweaking of the Zyxel 5G antenna and getting just over 500Mbps download speed. Mental 🤣
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
Have to shout out to Zyxel's very decent 5G mobile antenna/kit. Made my own life a bit difficult in places getting it working but 170Mbs download was worth it.
April 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Have to shout out to Zyxel's very decent 5G mobile antenna/kit. Made my own life a bit difficult in places getting it working but 170Mbs download was worth it.
Terraform. The happy path only approach to infra management. When it goes wrong you're screwed.
April 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Terraform. The happy path only approach to infra management. When it goes wrong you're screwed.