Writing
Posts & dispatches
Occasional posts, plus my own section from every Cloud Host Dispatch I contribute to — republished in full.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 362
My notes on Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 360
My notes on And you thought AWS was out of features for S3. Surprise!.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 359
My notes on Tokenomicon Sounds Metal, but it’s Just Cloud Budgets.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 358
My notes on AI Spend Limits Because Frontier Models Aren’t Free Therapy.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 356
My notes on Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 355
My notes on The Cloud Pod’s AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 354
My notes on US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 350
My notes on It looks like you’re trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 349
My notes on Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 348
My notes on Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 347
My notes on The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 346
My notes on Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 345
My notes on Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 344
My notes on Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 342
My notes on Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 341
My notes on AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 340
My notes on Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 339
My notes on Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can’t Keep Its Mouth Shut.
Dispatch
Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 337
My notes on AWS Discovers Prices Can Go Both Ways, Raises GPU Costs 15 Percent.
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Cloud Host Dispatches: Episode 336
My notes on We Were Right (Mostly), 2026: The New Prophecies.
podcast
Guest on Security Voices
I joined David Cole and Jack Daniel mid-Re:Invent to talk podcasting, tech conferences, and cloud security.
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Check out The Cloud Pod
I started a podcast about AWS, Google and Azure — what's new, what's interesting, and what affects your day-to-day cloud use.
On the podcast site
Longer pieces I've written for The Cloud Pod — show retrospectives and re:Invent coverage, mostly. They live there rather than here, so these link out.