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Are You Happy, or Not, or Not Sure?

It’s not just about making sure the tech works, it’s actually about designing the experience in a way that highlights the people on the phone in a way that replaces something they would ordinarily experience in person.

Micah Walter

Jun 1, 2022 — 7 min read

A recent in-person meeting experience with the team.

Here I am again. Typing! Yesterday’s heat felt ok to me, but I didn’t have to leave the house too much, and certainly didn’t have to walk all over the subway and brave the city streets. Instead I was mostly at home, sitting in my air conditioned workspace, sometimes with a window open, sometimes not. Today it’s cooler out—windows open.

Virtual Onboarding

My first three or four months at Amazon were entirely virtual. I attended meeting after meeting online and went through my entire onboarding process virtually. I interviewed virtually as well, forgetting to ask my recruiter where the office even was. It just never occurred to me!

6 Weeks of Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement

I've been "going live" every Friday for the past six weeks. It's been pretty fun! Each week I spend an hour and a half talking through how I would build something on AWS. It's been heavily focused on building with Go and

Turning my voice into blog posts with Amazon Transcribe and Bedrock

A blog post, written by AI, inspired by my words is still a blog post. Right?

S1 E2 - Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement - API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Bedrock

This week, we will go over deploying our generative service to AWS, adding the ability to pass unique identifiers as parameters.

S1 E1 - Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement

For my next show, coming up this Friday at 3pm ET, you can expect to hang out with me as I wind my way through building a simple generative service using Go and AWS Lambda.