Intro

This story started when I wanted to apply external terraform module to multiple AWS accounts.
Note: module, variable names and AWS account names are changed to protect innocents.

Review

Recently I read an interesting article:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-prioritize-iam-access-analyzer-findings/

Well, I don’t expect it to be interesting for most of people.

But for people that are in charge of security reviews of company AWS accounts and review AWS Access Analyser - it makes life much simpler.

Basically it shows a way to mute repeated false postitives. For example when you use SSO all new SSO users will be shown in AWS Access Analyser - that probably not a good thing. Especially if you have a lot of those.

Then you can just go to Archive rules - and auto archive SSO users :)

More details are in the article.

Review

Recently I read an interesting article on fake ransomware:

Fake ransomware gang targets U.S. orgs with empty data leak threats: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ransomware-gang-targets-us-orgs-with-empty-data-leak-threats/

That was quite fascinating insight in social engineering in cyber crime world: that fake ransomware is quite widespread and popular.

Why work hard on hacking somebody servers if you can just claim that you stole the data and demand the ransom? :)

Surprisingly effective tactic. So to say - lean approach in the world of ransomware gangs.

Review

Recently I listened to an interesting TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/the_ted_interview_design_your_life_for_happiness_with_elizabeth_dunn

That was quite interesting insight in happiness causes. It seems that we are wired to be happy when we share, when we give, when we help each other.

Other insights:

• people that buy time with money are usually happier
• people who don’t use their smartphone during together meal are happier

One more brick to the happiness in life :)

Review

Recently I listened to an interesting TED talk suggested by our CEO:

https://www.ted.com/talks/yejin_choi_why_ai_is_incredibly_smart_and_shockingly_stupid

That was quite interesting insight in strength and weaknesses of AI LLM like ChatGPT.

• Large Language Models(LLM) training date is huge but reasoning is still quite weak.
• LLM sustainability is an open question
• LLM think what next word to say, not what to say.
  • And that’s why they hallucinate.
• Even before watching this talk I got impression of LLM as super/very hardworking and at the same time very low intelligence system.
• AI Scientist in a talk tells that we should work on more intelligent models, idea is replace quantity with quality have a lot of downsides.
• So LLM is not something to fear, it’s something to stay and be useful. But we can do much better AI systems in future :)

How to display commands that you type in Normal mode in statusbar

As a novice in vim I would like to visually see which command I’m typing when I use VIM.
It appears not so straightforward in SpaceVIM as it already have pretty much magic around configuration.
When I wrote this documentation I used spacevim version 2.1.0 and neovim version 0.9.

Watched an Interesting udemy course about useful mental models:
Make Better Decisions: 13 Mental Models for Team Managers
And my thoughts about it.

Great article about developers productivity:
The SPACE of Developer Productivity
And my thoughts about it.

Summary of important things that I did in 2022 year

• One health issue solved.
• We travelled a lot in Thailand by car.
• I travelled to Singapore, first time out of Thailand since covid-19 started
• I organized several Bangkok’s DevOps Fridays and visited bunch of other developers meet-ups.
• I’m reading books again :)
• I made a nice work setup at home office.

Summary of important things that I did in 2020-2021 years

Due to piling up routine I got to writing 2020 year sum-up only in the end of 2021.
So it will be both 2020 and 2021 years sum-up.

• One health issue solved.
• We travelled a lot in Thailand by car.
• I organized bunch of Bangkok’s DevOps Fridays, created an interesting community of great engineers.
• We moved to a much better apartment (better for us and for kids) near a park :)
• covid-19 wasn’t that bad in Thailand, but still there was a lot of sitting at home due to lockdown, curfews and restrictions.