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Do you have some spare time? Can you figure out an easier way to do something? Then, why not build some software?! \nToday, we\u2019re talking to Ian Mckay of Kablamo, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) consultancy. He is the author of Console Recorder, which is a browser extension that records your actions in the Management Console to convert them into SDK code and infrastructure as code templates.\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\n\nTimeline to build Console Recorder\nInfrastructure as Code: How to code repeatedly without starting over and take ownership of what you built by hand\nAWS vs. Individual Achievements: People asked AWS for years to create something to record console click-throughs that Ian did in his spare time\nConsole Recorder support for any browser that exports Web extensions\nSharp edges of what\u2019s expected of Console Recorder to speed up development\nManagement Console\u2019s unreadable responses require reverse engineering\nConsole Recorder: Recommended use cases and areas \nHow to alleviate security concerns with Console Recorder\nChanges to Management Console that may break things \nIan\u2019s past, present, and future projects and products\nWords of Wisdom: If you don\u2019t like something, just fix it yourself\n\nLinks:\n\nIan Mckay on Twitter\nAWS Console Recorder\nKablamo\nAWS\nCloudFormation\nTerraform\nMediaLive\nJeff Barr\nre:Invent\nCDK\nGoogle Cloud Platform\nAWS Management Console\nAWS RDS\nAWS Lambda\nDigitalOcean