Tim Furlong's Tech Blog
A blog about Technology, AI, AWS, Managing Tech Teams, Company Culture, and other musings
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Who Owns This?
Sentasity blogThe costliest part of a forgotten cloud resource isn't the bill. It's the hunt for who owns it.
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Why Your Cost Optimization Recommendations Are Gathering Dust
Sentasity blogFinding AWS waste is the easy part. Acting on what you found is where teams get stuck.
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Your AWS Dashboard Has All the Answers (Except the One That Matters)
Sentasity blogMore cloud data doesn't help without guidance, which is why opinionated recommendations beat dashboards.
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Building a Voice AI for Restaurants with Nova Sonic + Pipecat
Built a low-latency voice agent using Pipecat and AWS Nova Sonic. Great voice quality, painful observability. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and what’s next.
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Automating Git Workflows with AI (Without Breaking the Bank)
I built Git AI to automate commit messages and PR descriptions using AI — no subscriptions, no bloat. It’s an open-source tool that saves time and keeps your Git workflow efficient and affordable.
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Chatting with Odoo: A Simple Way to Get Answers with AI
I built an AI chatbot using FastMCP, odoo-rpc-client, and Claude 4 to easily chat with my Odoo ERP data. This is how I did it.
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Building cal2ts: How I Automated Timesheet Hell for My Engineering Team
Timesheet management sucks. I built cal2ts to fix it. This AI-powered web app turns calendar events into timesheet entries with one click, letting our Cloud303 engineers focus on building great software instead of fighting with Odoo.
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Why I Chose AWS Amplify, Contentful, and Next.js to Build My Blog
I looked at a few different ways to build my blog, but ended up going with AWS Amplify, Contentful, and Next.js. Here’s why this setup made the most sense for what I needed.
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