Create your own Twitter bot in 10 minutes

Update November 2017: Since November 2017, I’ve updated my GitHub repository with a manual to use this bot with a Lambda function (Serverless). It’s more efficient and cost-effective than running a full-time EC2 instance. This dead simple Node.js Twitter bot will retweet statuses based on your current search criteria, follow users based on the same criteria, and favorite tweets too. I’m using this to learn the Node.js language and Git. Actual Features: ...

June 12, 2017 · 2 min · 258 words · zoph

awless a powerful alternative to AWS CLI

Yesterday, I was attending a meetup from the great French AWS Users Group, and Henri showed us a great new project he is working on, called: awless. awless is a great alternative to the official AWS CLI. It’s written in Go, and available under the Apache license on GitHub. awless will enhance your experience with the CLI with key features like: autocompletion, offline mode (--local), template support, revert capabilities, etc. Using a well-known syntax: subject, verb, complement, it drastically simplifies daily operations with the CLI, for example: ...

May 17, 2017 · 3 min · 564 words · zoph

Direnv with multiple AWS Accounts

If you are working closely with AWS, with multiple customers and multiple accounts, you will love this app: Direnv. Direnv will let you switch environment variables depending on the current folder you are browsing. It will be especially useful when you are juggling multiple AWS CLI ACCESS_KEY variables across customers. Then you don’t need to run aws configure each time you need to switch credentials. When you leave the path, direnv will unload variables, then you avoid any mistakes. ...

January 10, 2017 · 1 min · 205 words · zoph

AWS Starter Kit

This post was updated on 2020-07-11. You will find in this post a few links and videos to help you on your journey to AWS Cloud. My best Amazon Web Services, a practical guide All Things Distributed from Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon.com) Intro from AWS Intro Series E-Learning A Cloud Guru Courses Case Studies Case Studies - France VPC Getting Started with AWS VPC What Startups Should Know about Amazon VPC - part 1 What Startups Should Know about Amazon VPC - part 2 France Events Awsomeday AWS France Events French AWS User Group (Meetup) Useful Twitter accounts @aws_actus @mza My list Videos from re:Invent https://reinventvideos.com/ ...

December 13, 2016 · 1 min · 138 words · zoph