https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/Andrew DeFilippis — Software engineer, tech enthusiast, and blogger sharing perspectives on cloud computing, career, and life. 2026-03-07T00:58:17+00:00 Andrew DeFilippis https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Andrew DeFilippis /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-03-07T00:55:00+00:00 2026-03-07T00:55:00+00:00 https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/posts/appreciation-for-amazon/ Andrew DeFilippis

Working at Amazon Web Services accelerated my career, and allowed me to grow from a Systems Administrator into a Systems Development Engineer. I became a leader within AWS Support. Pivoted into Systems Engineering, internal deployments, and internal tooling. Worked my way up to infrastructure and region deployment expert. And became a designer and builder of internal systems and infrastruct...

2026-02-10T17:10:00+00:00 2026-02-11T09:08:12+00:00 https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/posts/knowledge-and-history-gone-by/ Andrew DeFilippis

I came across I Started Programming When I Was 7. I’m 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed today via Hacker News, and it resonates with me. I am not 50, but I have enough years under my belt to understand what James has written, and how it feels to watch the world of computing lurch forward into a new era. Signing into AOL and hearing “You’ve Got Mail!” Configuring an IRC client for the ...

2026-01-30T06:54:00+00:00 2026-01-30T11:02:56+00:00 https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/posts/leaving-amazon-web-services/ Andrew DeFilippis

It was Wednesday the 28th of January at 02:48. I was checking my phone for the last time, right after getting into bed after a long day and late night from being over-caffeinated. And there it was. A notification. The one you don’t want to see. Important Information About Your Role at Amazon My heart sank. I knew exactly what that email meant, and it was 100% a surprise to see. “Wha...

2023-03-03T09:30:00+00:00 2023-03-06T04:14:23+00:00 https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/posts/one-liner-persistent-rick-roll-on-mac/ Andrew DeFilippis

That feeling that you get when Rickrolling someone, is bliss. But what if you could Rickroll someone repeatedly, obscurely, and above all, absolutely annoyingly? I am not responsible for what you do with the information on this page and website. Executing one-liners, scripts, or code that you did not write or do not understand is risky. Executing code on another person’s computer without...

2023-02-27T00:30:00+00:00 2023-03-06T04:14:23+00:00 https://www.andrewdefilippis.com/posts/updates-to-my-website/ Andrew DeFilippis

Spent some time this weekend updating and modifying my website. The homepage now displays the image attached to the post, my About page has been updated with a little more detail, and the site has been updated to a newer version of the Chirpy theme. Next round of updates will hopefully be more posts.