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1 Mar, 11 tweets, 4 min read
Let's pick up my thread from a while back. I'm not *quite* ready to start building in my @awscloud account. I must secure it first!
Detective? GuardDuty? CloudTrail logs? Etc. etc. etc...
I click "enable" and am confronted by something that makes no sense whatsoever to me. IAM account? SSO account? Amazon account?

Remember, this shitposting account is just one, not a full org. AWS Detective copy is useless or worse.
Operating under the baseline assumption that 'when in doubt, click Next' is the right move, I'm immediately called an idiot by a different @awscloud service because of course I am.
Okay, let's try GuardDuty!
Now I get to wait for up to 48 hours to enable Detective. Eventually I might get to securely build something!
May as well configure CloudTrail. I'm greeted by a "welcome to this service you've never used before. Here's what's new."

Lovely.
"Click to create free trail."

Well okay.
Next up, "Security Hub." Okay!
"Not so fast, jackass."

With all of these prerequisite services, "a data breach would be cheaper / less complicated" is becoming more and more accurate.
Good on them for offering CloudFormation. I've gotta shove it in manually of course.

Shout out to the Xcode product manager whose hopes spring eternal that they'd be my preferred YAML client.

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As threatened, today I'm going to talk about pricing. This one will likely result in... feedback.
So, as you've probably heard if you've worked with, met, passed on a street, been in the same coffee shop as, or just had a dream about @jonathanstark, "hourly billing is nuts."

I used to disagree vehemently. I no longer do.
Unless you're an attorney, people are going to cap out in terms of what they pay you somewhere around $250-$300 an hour.

That's good money, right? $600K a year assuming 40 hours a week. Let's start there.
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"Join now to watch the Microsoft Ignite keynote!"
There we go. And as an apology for the trouble, @Microsoft has disabled the social profile nonsense.
What kind of crapass "cloud" conference is this?! They've got pre-keynote streams so you feel engaged and involved, they bother to *mention* the virtual sponsor expo hall so customers know it's there...

MS has so much to learn from AWS's approach to half-assing things.
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2 Mar
My personal guide for burned-out employees with chips on their shoulders. I recommend none of these. I am guilty of all of these. This is why I'm a terrible employee.
Put expenses on your own credit card and then submit them. If you experience pushback, stare them dead in the eye and say "okay, so don't pay it." See if they call your bluff.

(They almost never will.)
If someone asks you to work late tonight, you have plans. Maybe a date with your spouse. Maybe playing video games. Maybe you plan to cry yourself to sleep. Not their business; they're your plans.

Emergencies aren't "someone else fucked up the planning."
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2 Mar
So you want to be an independent consultant. Let’s skip past the stage where I scream “don’t do it!” and onto the next step:

How to position yourself.
It's natural to want to be the jack/jane-of-all-trades; anything within the vague realm of technology being what you do.

It's also a mistake.
Your first deals are going to come from your network--friends, former colleagues, etc. You want word of mouth to spread, because traditional marketing in this space is nightmarish.

Generalists don't get recommended.
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1 Mar
I have a meeting with a Microsoft person in a few minutes, so it's once again time to do battle with @MicrosoftTeams.
Click the enable button, it lands here.
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsof…
Looks enabled from everything I can see, but the client stubbornly refuses to recognize this. Hrnnnn...
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1 Mar
In honor of @colmmacc being elevated to VP, a thread on my experiences with him. Somewhere a bunch of @awscloud people just flinched and didn't know why.
First, VP / Distinguished Engineer is the top of the IC track at AWS. There's no higher job level; in all of Amazon there are less than 2 dozen the last time I counted. It is seriously No Joke.
I've encountered Colm on a few different customer issues, to the point where I started to grow suspicious. "Does AWS know that I'm involved here, and they're bringing him in because they know I respect him mightily?"

Of course not; AWS doesn't communicate internally that well.
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