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+title: The Programs of a Week in June
+message_id: <o8k8cs.3jd4vyll5w7l4@markwunsch.com>
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+
+This Week's Program: June 6 - June 10
+=====================================
+
+When AWS makes you feel like a wizard.<br />
+When you have forgotten that January blizzard.<br />
+When Hacker News has your career reconsidered.<br />
+That summer feeling is gonna
+[haunt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJvXo6RNu8) you
+one day in your life.
+
+Thanks to everyone who sent in well-wishes last week! This week was
+slow in code but dense in learning.
+
+## [87bfceb6abe89160a318d69288d2ae1fb3b8eac8][ami-tag]
+
+I added a
+[tag](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html)
+to my sonic-sketches API. This is just a bit of metadata that will
+come into play later.
+
+## [0e2ffd0aae3f9888976cea1504a84bb325b07583][codedeploy]
+
+I add the default
+[appspec.yml](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/writing-app-spec.html)
+template for AWS CodeDeploy. This little YAML file will eventually be
+used to deploy the latest sonic-sketches revision onto the EC2
+instance built by Packer. I'm still acting at the very edge of my
+knowledge so I'm not entirely sure how all of this will string
+together, but what's another YAML file amongst friends?
+
+## [8c5b5b1dbadc96f2ccb21fd0d71e2540c8caf3a0][yaml-mode]
+
+I add `yaml-mode` to my Emacs configuration. Why isn't everything just
+Lisp?
+
+## [f9422620e35d11871a47a6b65151da475bc1f4c3][formation]
+
+I turned my attention then to
+[AWS CloudFormation](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/), which
+can use that metadata tag to bring up a whole "cloud" of its own. So
+far, the `sonic-sketches` cloud requires EC2, S3, potentially
+CloudDeploy, potentially Lambda, and potentially other things. I can
+group all of these resources together in a
+[formation](http://www.beyonce.com/formation/) (🍋). As I'm learning, I
+stub out a CloudFormation
+[template](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/),
+similar to how I did with CloudDeploy.
+
+## [8243f74224354f06ee6091d4dd39ef8834524397][baskerville]
+
+GitHub
+[recently announced](https://github.com/blog/2186-https-for-github-pages)
+that its hosted pages will now be served over https. That's cool. I'm
+not immediately affected by that but I use this opportunity to remove
+Typekit from <http://markwunsch.com>. I think Typekit is super great,
+but I want my site to be as fast as can be, and I wasn't using the
+serif it was pulling in as much as I thought I would have. This is a
+subtle change but I really like it.
+
+## [63516b12cd21c927d4847d2d826bf0ffd09f4f12][break-word]
+
+I also change the font-size a bit on mobile breakpoints, mostly to
+make sure that the site looks good on an iPad split screen view, which
+I utilize a lot.
+
+See you next week. Enjoy that summer feeling!
+
+🐝 Mark
+
+[ami-tag]: https://github.com/mwunsch/sonic-sketches/commit/87bfceb6abe89160a318d69288d2ae1fb3b8eac8
+
+[codedeploy]: https://github.com/mwunsch/sonic-sketches/commit/0e2ffd0aae3f9888976cea1504a84bb325b07583
+
+[yaml-mode]: https://github.com/mwunsch/emacs.d/commit/8c5b5b1dbadc96f2ccb21fd0d71e2540c8caf3a0
+
+[formation]: https://github.com/mwunsch/sonic-sketches/commit/f9422620e35d11871a47a6b65151da475bc1f4c3
+
+[baskerville]: https://github.com/mwunsch/mwunsch.github.io/commit/8243f74224354f06ee6091d4dd39ef8834524397
+
+[break-word]: https://github.com/mwunsch/mwunsch.github.io/commit/63516b12cd21c927d4847d2d826bf0ffd09f4f12
+