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Disclaimer This post contains affiliate links. Introduction As you know, in Information Technology, things are evolving fast. Too fast to stay up to date without losing your mind to information overload/fatigue. To remediate that, I will give you my daily/weekly routine and tips to stay focused on your tasks/objectives without missing anything interesting, and to assimilate it at your own pace. Daily Routine Sign In In the morning, I’m reading my Brew. Mailbrew gives you the ability to craft your own newsletter based on your most interesting content, like tweets with the most engagement from your favorite Twitter accounts, Newsletters, most upvoted Sub-reddit posts, daily calendar schedule, most interesting Hacker News posts and so on. Crafted just by you and for you. ...

TL;DR HighCharts -> APIGW -> DynamoDB + Lambda function 🎉 cockpit.zoph.io Introduction Lately, I was working on a new version, API based, for my Twitter Cockpit. In the previous version, Highcharts was loading data from some flat csv files. The goal of this cockpit is to retrieve and store unlimited history for specific Twitter accounts based on a Twitter list. It means that you can control from Twitter which accounts you want to graph for follower/following history. When you are using Twitter Analytics, the history only compares followers (not following) to the previous 28-day period, and the graph is in fact a non-clickable thumbnail image, a very poor experience for free users. ...

TL;DR: I search “@awscloud” in their Twitter Bio and add their profiles to a public Twitter list. One opportunity to get fresh news from the AWS ecosystem is to follow relevant current or former Amazon (Web Services) employees called Amazonians on Twitter, but it can be difficult to stalk their profiles across the myriad of user profiles talking about #AWS subjects… Lately, I was working on a quick Python Proof of Concept (another excuse to ramp up my Python 🐍 skills) to query the Twitter API to find profiles with a specific Twitter description/bio, and I asked myself if I could use this to find more and more AWS employees :roll_eyes: ...

qTweet is a dead simple AWS SQS to Twitter serverless speaker :speaker:. Publish message :love_letter: to SQS (FIFO), Lambda function will handle publishing it to Twitter. Automagically. :tada: To be honest, my plan is to automate the tweet of certain information using this queue in multiple side projects. As usual, I’m sharing this with you folks as I was not able to find an equivalent in GitHub / Open source projects. I hope it could be useful to someone else. ...

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: ...