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<li>tweet</li>
<li>gitter cdk</li>
<li>post on hacker news</li>
<li>post on reddit aws</li>
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<p>been working with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for the past couple of months and just published a blog documenting the experience. tldr: using the CDK is like having cake and eating it too - cannot go back to the old ways of doing infrastructure as code</p>
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<p>been working with AWS Cloud Development Kit for a few months and published a blog post documenting the experience. tldr: CDK is like having cake and eating it too and i'm afraid i can never go back.</p>
<p>if you used the cdk, curious to hear about your experience in the comments :)</p>
<p><a href="https://kevinslin.com/aws/cdk_all_the_things/">https://kevinslin.com/aws/cdk_all_the_things/</a></p>
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Announce

kevin-public


## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

If you are feeling more adventurous, you can read about how this blog is structured below and go down your own trail!

![[dendron://kevin-public/home.schema#^begin]]

## Contact

You can find and contact me in the following places (sorted by frequency of use):

- Email: kevin(at)dendron.so
- Twitter: [`@kevins8`](https://twitter.com/kevins8)
- Github: [`@kevins8`](https://github.com/kevinslin)
- LinkedIn: [`@kevinslin-thence`](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinslin-thence)

## Working in the Open

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Code for this blog is available on [github](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-garden).

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