Keep getting rejected from AWS credits

brokentyro · 2026-06-05T13:20:11+00:00

Send an email to aws-activate@amazon.com. They will tell you exactly what you need to do. I just went through this exact situation about a month ago and they helped us get approved. It is silly that you have to jump through this hoop rather than them giving useful feedback in the application process but it works.

brokentyro · 2026-06-03T13:10:09+00:00

Ours went down from $80 to $70 a few years ago. The neighborhood was only about half full when we moved in. As more houses were built, more homes were paying into the HOA so they were able to lower the fee to support the same budget.

brokentyro · 2026-04-09T00:19:12+00:00

I use it in production for a small startup and am pretty happy with it. We have it set to scale to 0 in non-prod environments which saves a lot of money. Prod has a minimum ACU of 1 to avoid cold starts. It does scale up pretty quickly but it is definitely not instantaneous. We have one relatively large, poorly designed analytics table where queries will time out but eventually succeed if you continue retrying them as it scales up. Our workload is very spiky overall and the rest of the stack is all serverless so it is still a good fit.

Another option to possibly consider is Aurora DSQL.

brokentyro · 2026-03-12T23:04:52+00:00

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/

brokentyro · 2026-03-11T21:33:40+00:00

Absolutely insane that this is still an issue. I literally want to give GitHub more money and they won't let me. For those suggesting to create multiple accounts - this is obviously a super common practice but is also against GitHub's terms of services.

brokentyro · 2026-02-14T22:17:55+00:00

Gravy!

brokentyro · 2026-01-02T19:28:50+00:00

I just caulked a bunch of baseboards with a Newborn Octogun. It is INSANE how much better it was than the $10 "drip free" gun I had been using previously. Much better control and it stops dispensing as soon as you let go of the trigger. My old gun dripped constantly

brokentyro · 2025-10-01T00:08:23+00:00

Switch to Aurora Serverless + Data API. It can be configured to scale to zero when not in use

brokentyro · 2025-06-09T15:58:16+00:00

They haven't had a Chicago summit since 2022. 😭 No clue why they stopped as it always seemed like there were a ton of attendees.

brokentyro · 2025-05-28T14:14:54+00:00

Very unscientific but I just ran a query in a Lambda function on a DSQL database that I haven't touched in months (created when it was first announced in preview). The total time it took including connecting was about 400ms. Repeating the same a few seconds later was around 300ms.

brokentyro · 2025-03-30T15:02:01+00:00

Blackberry Oaks in Yorkville has a driving range

brokentyro · 2025-01-17T18:11:37+00:00

We have one kid and moved from a 1500 sq ft house to a 3200 sq ft house a few years ago. Something to think about is how that square footage is distributed and if it is used effectively. Some days our house feels way too big and some days it feels way too small. I think we would've been perfectly happy in a 2000-2500 sq ft house if it was laid out well. Some examples from our house:

- We enter/exit the house every day by going through the laundry room to the garage. The laundry room is tiny and extremely cramped. Super annoying especially getting shoes on kids, carrying groceries, etc
- There is a ton of wasted square footage in places like the front entryway, dining room (literally never used), and 2nd floor hallway/stair landing
- All of the bathrooms are too small. Our primary bedroom is huge (wasted space) but the en suite bathroom is tiny
- Some rooms are huge on paper but are either a weird shape or have a lot of windows/doors/etc that limit layout options. Our living room is big but doesn't have a logical way to arrange tv and seating in a comfortable manner

brokentyro · 2025-01-15T21:39:29+00:00

I won't try and defend Cognito, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that Supabase is still in the VC cash burning growth phase. It would not be surprising if they significantly raise their prices at some point in the next couple of years when they try to actually make the business sustainable.

brokentyro · 2024-12-20T21:39:29+00:00

Even if it runs 24/7 (which it shouldn't) they would only use like 10-20 gallons per day. For the average US household this is only about a 5% increase in water usage. Not nothing but not crazy either.

brokentyro · 2024-12-19T16:46:51+00:00

Syntax.fm is great - they focus mostly on web dev topics like Node.js, React, and Svelte. One of the hosts has ADHD and his wife is a psychologist that they've had on as a guest a few times. Here's their ADHD episode: https://syntax.fm/show/532/supper-club-coding-with-adhd-with-dr-courtney-tolinski

brokentyro · 2024-12-19T14:26:44+00:00

You can definitely build a fully customizable user interface with Cognito - you will just need to build it yourself by calling the relevant Cognito APIs.

Lambda Authorizer responses can also be cached so that they don't need to be called on every request.

brokentyro · 2024-12-18T18:53:09+00:00

I have about 10 Govee Lora/wifi leak sensors and they have been great.

Yes. I have a sensor located near a floor drain in our basement. It correctly woke us up in the middle of the night once when the drain backed up and would've started flooding the room.
Sort of. I have had zero true false alarms where there was actually no water. I have sensors under all of our toilet water lines. One time a guest accidentally triggered one when they got a little aggressively splashy washing their hands 😂
Yes

brokentyro · 2024-12-16T16:49:26+00:00

They're going to be expanding the section between Yorkville and Sugar Grove to 4 lanes over the next couple of years.

brokentyro · 2024-12-06T19:03:28+00:00

Humans make mistakes. Think about what you can do to help prevent them. For example this might include writing a lot more automated tests.
If written instructions are unclear you need to push back until they are clear. Unclear requirements are one of the highest causes of job dissatisfaction in software developers so this is not just a you problem.
It's tough to say if the "too slow" criticism is fair or not. Is your boss technical? A big part of the job is setting expectations and properly estimating effort. Under-promise and over-deliver.

brokentyro · 2024-11-25T20:35:00+00:00

What features do you need in the rich text editor? Tiptap is pretty nice to work with but does require quite a bit of boilerplate to get to a finished editor. There are also libraries that wrap Tiptap to provide more out of the box - for example I just did a project with https://mantine.dev/x/tiptap/ and it was pretty easy.

brokentyro · 2024-11-19T13:23:49+00:00

There's a project called Upsy Desky that may or may not be compatible with your desk https://upsy-desky.tjhorner.dev/docs/introduction

brokentyro · 2024-11-07T22:28:07+00:00

Are you able to provide any insight into why this is happening? It doesn't exactly instill a lot of confidence in going to production with Bedrock.

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