Here’s my 2022 reading list, updated as I read more in 2022! February The Lobotomist’s Wife - Samantha Greene Woodruff Anyone - Charles Soule April Dexter’s Final Cut - Jeff Lindsay June Death Note Short Stories - Tsugumi Ohba (Author) , Takeshi Obata (Illustrator) October Old Man’s War - John Scalzi

Amazon broke the shortlink URL convention I was using for my reading lists. I like using the shorter/cleaner URL to keep my markdown easier to read. Old short URL… https://amzon.com/ Now I have to use… https://www.amazon.com/dp/ I wonder if they know they broke it, or repurposed for something else, forwards to https://arcus-www.amazon.com and the product codes in the URL don’t take you to valid product pages. The new way is still better than using the full product URL.

Here’s my 2021 reading list, updated as I read more in 2021! June Turtles All the Way Down - John Green (only a few more books of his left to read) July How to Stop Time - Matt Haig September Never Split the Difference - Chirs Voss The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

I’ve been working on a lambda service that will place users into groups based on their IdP (identity provider). I’ve recently had a feature request to place users into specific groups within the UP (user pool) based on a list of groups within an attribute received from the IdP. We utilize a UP for our testing/dev environments and to test this new feature I wanted to remove all the current users within the UP.

While there are a lot of life stressors, worrying about car repair is near the top, for me anyway. My family has never been very good at taking care of automobiles. My dad would tend to drive his cars until the wheels fell off and laxed on many routine maintenance items. He wasn’t very handy when it came to things around the house and especially with vehicles. Inherently, so am I.

Happy Valentine’s Day My mother-in-law gifted me the Mindful Life Journal for Valentine’s Day. Very thoughtful and I’m pretty excited to have it. A couple years ago I started a Google doc to write in every day. It looks something like this… screenshot I forget now where I got my “rules” from, but they are fairly generic and probably pulled them together from a few different YouTube videos about bettering yourself as well as a couple books.