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Oct 4, 2026 Field Notes leadership

Field Notes from the Stack: Remembering Your Roots

Protecting a team’s focus sometimes means picking up the work yourself. This week, I stepped back into engineering to keep competing priorities off my team’s plate.

Sep 13, 2026 Field Notes leadership

Field Notes from the Stack: The Cost of On-Call

On-call can mean messy break-fixes, delayed feature work, interrupted sleep, and the stress of never quite knowing when the next page will arrive. Join me as I share my take on handling on-call.

May 31, 2026

Building Detection Scripts in Hours with Kiro

How I used Kiro's CLI to build a weighted detection script for sensitive data in hours instead of weeks, going from 80% done to production-ready.

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Dec 21, 2025 aws

Carlo's Top AWS Announcements of 2025

As 2025 wraps up, I’m looking back at AWS’s biggest releases. From multi-account console sign-in to org-level S3 block public access and full SCP language support. It’s been a year of long-awaited upgrades that make AWS more secure, flexible, and finally a bit easier to live with.

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Nov 30, 2025 aws self-improvement

Enabling Myself by Automating Bureaucracy

Faced with the realization that I wasn't good at ticket grooming and kanban management, I built a helper prompt and script that looks at GitLab issues, provides suggestions, and gives me a brief summary. Here I spend a few minutes reflecting on the what, how, and why it matters to you.