John Tipper

SRE/software eng, building with AWS in hedge fund. Former mil helicopter pilot. Brit/Aus/US.

[It’s Never You I Parents Deserve Better @ItsNeverYou22]

The days and nights in hospital. The smiles, the tears, the holidays, the laughter, the Lego, the cuddles and the love all summed up in one picture, when I crossed the line in London.

Because the love a dad has for his child doesn’t end. It doesn’t fade. It doesn’t get easier. It just finds new ways to show itself.

I took on something that was completely beyond me: two marathons in two weeks, carrying Hugh’s shoes. It drained me so much that I collapsed in a restaurant afterwards. But I did it. We did it.

Together, we have raised over £26,000, and the story has now had more than 5 million views worldwide. The impact of these marathons, and the meaning behind them, has gone far beyond me.

Thank you to everyone who has supported, shared, donated, messaged and carried us through.

Now, in 48 hours, we go to Downing Street. ❤️🦋

Last chance to donate 👉🏻 https://t.co/2GKNPKmUri

[It’s Never You I Parents Deserve Better @ItsNeverYou22]

Let’s go Hugh, one last time around London. He never got to cheer me on, today he’s with me . 🦋💔

please donate if you can 👉🏻 https://t.co/taC9aClibG—_donation_received_—_nth_donation

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's something broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a filesystem—no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. @andywarfield tells the full story, including the "filerectories" that almost made the cut. https://t.co/zrkLOZS5Qe

[Elizabeth Fuentes @ElizabethFue12]

AWS S3 Files: Object storage meets file system flexibility. Simplify data workflows across your infrastructure! 🚀 #AWS #CloudComputing

https://t.co/cMnWed2j5q

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@mjackson @ibuildthecloud When you do, I for one would be very interested in hearing about how you found them both (please).

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@pierskarsenbarg @AdamRackis Thereby revealing a lot about both the London electorate and the other candidates.

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@TotherAlistair Yes, thank you very much, will take a look

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@TotherAlistair I think this could be a very cool blog post! Would love to see a practical example showing this.

[Tony Kulesa @kulesatony]

Start a company in AI for Science.

The Encode: AI for Science fellowship offers a year of freedom to build what matters -- salary, 100k GBP of compute, and partnership with the top scientists in the UK.

No equity or fees, it's a fully funded fellowship!

Apply by March 28

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@AndrewSabisky https://t.co/u4ti2yJ0GG

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@Keir_Starmer I rang 999 yesterday for a child with head injuries and broken knee from a bike accident=2 hour wait lying on the road.
6 weeks ago, I + armed police rang for another cyclist outside Buckingham Palace with broken elbow & shoulder and was told that it didn’t warrant an ambulance.

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@adamhjk How does a CLI solve for input parameters that are structured? MCP gives strong typing, CLI is only going to cause the LLM to guess at the shape of an input based on a weakly typed example from the —help flag or error message, no?

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

Chipotle's support bot is free:

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@AdamRackis You should look at the writings of @swardley here: IIRC he called out the direction of travel a year or more ago. Access to big, powerful, expensive AI is going to be a social marker, in the way that an inside bathroom vs shared outhouse did in late Victorian era.

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@mikenelson586 Where is David Hasselhoff when you need him?

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@AdamRackis I’m finding Rust Rover hangs and needs restarting. Also each Jetbrains IDE I use (Python, Rust, Go, Webstorm) wants up to 4 GB each. Bit flaky, really. I think this might be the year I finally move to VSCode and cancel my pro subscription and save disk space and cash.

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@paulg Same

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@adamdrwatts @defencewithac [Russian pilots enter the chat]

[John Tipper @john_tipper]

@adamdrwatts @defencewithac Here he is some years later as my wingman in another sandy paradise admiring the results of his textbook dust landing. No, its undercarriage is not supposed to bend like that and it’s not supposed to need packing crates to not fall over. “Don’t worry, it’ll buff out”.