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This is the tool I use to generate and prepare for sending the PDF invoices for my freelance work. It takes a bunch of JSON files that define info about my clients, as well as my o…

Sorry about this, I hadn't noticed. Unfortunately Beehiv added their tracking query strings which will break the site because of the way we host it from a static content bucket. It…

Thank you for reporting this, I'll have a look ASAP.

Frustrated by the official way to resolve secretmanager secrets in Lambda functions using the official Lambda extension ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/usergui…

This is besides the point, the AutoSpotting and EBS Optimizer tools are not even in the scope of this release, I just mentioned them for a bit of extra context about myself and wha…

I'm a solopreneur doing AWS cost optimization tools and services, much like a Pieter Levels in the niche of Corey Quinn. For many years I've been building self-hosted serverless he…

After the recent layoffs at Google that impacted open source maintainers of some prominent projects, I was curious to see what's the state of other projects where the community had…

Sharing my rollercoarter ride of monetizing a formerly quite popular AWS cost optimization OSS project I started 8 years ago and venting about my latest MRR drop. Ask me anything!

For sure, I use the AWS APIs to gather the data but there's no single API for all this, I aggregate it from different services and across regions. AWS also has some dashboard in th…

Just released a new Open Source tool for estimating the future IPv4 costs that AWS will introduce from February. It's a CLI application that shows you the projected costs for each …

And also why we had to deploy NAT Gateways in our public subnets.

I started writing a plugin for ChatGPT that would allow us to query and alter AWS resources (other cloud providers could be done similarly but probably would bloat it too much). It…

Thanks for the comment! You're right, it's amazing at that, I've had a similar experience. At small scale you can also do much of that pretty well also with ECS, we use GitHub Acti…

The OP here, thanks for the comment! It was definitely not about being contrarian but about offering first and foremost a more cost effective but still relatively simple, scalable …