After 7 years, 8 months, and 13 days, I had my last day at Amazon Web Services on August 11, 2023.
Over that time, I managed to have 5 different job titles (2 as an individual contributor, 3 as a manager) and 5 different managers, working on 2 distinct AWS products.
So today I graduated from Amazon's internal training program and became a Bar Raiser. This is something that I've thought about doing on and off for something silly like 2 years, but at the end of November last year I decided to sign up.
One of the things that I've started to use more and more lately is the Shortcuts app on iOS. This was a 3rd party app called "Workflow" a few years ago, but in 2018 Apple bought it out and introduced "Shortcuts" as part of iOS 12. The idea is that it introduces a bunch of different automations to iPad/iPhone, including integration with third-party apps that support it.
Since I just spent the morning playing around with various shortcuts and creating a few new ones to streamline my blogging workflow on the iPad, I thought I'd write up a few words on how I use it.