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Linguists have a word for the ums, uhs, ers, and elongated versions (ummmm, uhhhhh) that pad spoken English: disfluencies.

Journaling 🔗 Coding agents forget what they just did.

Five Years Later 🔗 Back in 2021 I wrote about using Route53 Private Hosted Zone TXT records as a key-value store for GitHub Actions .

2026 update: a modernized version of this post is here — uses OIDC instead of static AWS keys and fixes the deprecated ::set-output syntax that broke the Get action on current runners.

Basics 🔗 When developing new automations it’s best to make each component as modular and reusable as possible.