James Thomas

current: software consultant previous: serverless devrel lead & open-source dev @IBMCloud. @openwhisk committer. @serverlessldn organiser.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

Finally wrote up how I built an AI-powered virtual speed camera: https://t.co/E2auFpDOt9 I did this about 12 months ago now - it was actually successful in helping persuade the council to install traffic calming measures on the road.

[Walk Ride GM @WalkRideGM]

The Safer Streets trial is well under way in Withington 🚸 🚶🚴

@crispeater @beenetwork @becky_cham

[James Thomas @thomasj]

Why shouldn't I use @awscloud Cognito UserPool Group Roles to provide Lambda access to backend services via AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity using the JWT? I know Cognito Identity Pools is the "proper" solution - but seems like overkill for simple use-cases.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

I've got loads of small content like this I want to share from recent serverless projects I've been working on. First of many blog posts hopefully...

[James Thomas @thomasj]

Adding HTTP Auth to @awscloud S3 Bucket Websites with CloudFront Functions: https://t.co/IFeYjt2W1k

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@quiline Let's have a chat - [email protected]

[James Thomas @thomasj]

Finally wrote up how I built an AI-powered virtual speed camera: https://t.co/E2auFpDOt9 I did this about 12 months ago now - it was actually successful in helping persuade the council to install traffic calming measures on the road.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

Still buzzing off yesterday. Ended up sat about 10 foot from the 🐐. Almost close enough to touch 😂. UTFR 🔴🔴🔴.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@matthieunapoli Yes it would - will have a look. Thank you.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

AWS Client VPN seemed like a nice way to access VPC services locally without having to run a proxy EC2 instance. Works fine until my billing alerts started coming through... *hmm* didn't read the pricing well enough....

[James Thomas @thomasj]

More details here: https://t.co/vlTE4B8q4A tldr; always read pricing fine-print and always have billing alerts set up.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

Turns out you're charged an hourly fee for each client endpoint (regardless of usage) = $73 dollars a month. No thanks - back to ssh -i /key-pair.pem username@instance-id -L localport:targethost:destport for me.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@HarryHamishGray @Sacha_Lord Mass cycle trespass mk II? "How many bikes can we fit on a tram...."

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@edspencer Glad it helped - it's such a frustrating error.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@twoowls73 Hello. Feel free to ask - probably best open a Github issue with help you need on the project repo? I'm happy to help a bit but probably can't be a long-term mentor I'm afraid.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@sarahurmson Let me know if you get stuck.... Happy to help

[APPG for Cycling & Walking @APPGCW]

A resident of Manchester built an artificial intelligent powered speed camera, and used the evidence to persuade his local council to install traffic calming

https://t.co/lEoouhAQDQ

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@sarahurmson There's a similar app called https://t.co/5KhN5LmQB8 - does that help? You can run it yourself for free but I know that needs familiarity with tech stuff. How long would the footage be?

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@timgummer Yes it'll work fine I think. Just need to change the label it looks for in the API results from car to bike.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@johnpmulvey You'd need someone with development skills and familiarity with machine learning models. It's not rocket science but does need good software engineering skills.

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@matnewts @RoSPA @roadsafety @dharford79 @BedfordTweets @NationalHways @H_S_E Thanks Mat - hope you have a nice bank holiday too!

[James Thomas @thomasj]

@AndHab Good question - I'm not sure. I did try it with really poor quality video due to heavy Manchester rain and it did fine so could be okay?