# landonmiles.com

> Technical marketer and developer. Writing on AWS, AI tools, the command line, and the small tools I build along the way.

Last updated: 2026-04-25

## About

- [Landon Miles](https://landonmiles.com/about): Senior Technical Marketing Specialist at Automox, based in Oklahoma City, OK
- [Email](mailto:hello@landonmiles.com): hello@landonmiles.com
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonmiles): professional profile
- [GitHub](https://github.com/jlmiles4): code and side projects
- [Automox Author Page](https://www.automox.com/blog/authors/landon-miles): articles published at Automox
- [Automox IT Nation Podcast](https://listen.automox.com/people/landon-miles): podcast appearances

## Topics

- technical marketing and product marketing
- aws and cloud infrastructure
- ai tools and workflows
- linux and command line
- developer productivity
- static site deployment

## Projects

- [PDF Comments](https://pdfcomments.app): Browser-based tool that extracts PDF annotations and exports them as Markdown

## Articles

- [PDFs Are Feedback Traps](https://landonmiles.com/blog/pdfcomments-app) (2026-01-25): PDF comments are easy to add and hard to extract. I built a browser-based tool that turns trapped annotations into actionable Markdown.
- [Terminal Velocity: Accelerate Your Workflow with the Command Line](https://landonmiles.com/blog/terminal-velocity) (2025-12-05): Why I keep pulling developers back to the terminal, what a shell actually is, and the small set of commands that will carry you across every machine you'll ever touch.
- [Avoiding Hype: How to Write Honestly About Complex Products](https://landonmiles.com/blog/avoiding-hype) (2025-12-02): Hype kills credibility with technical buyers. Here's how I try to write about complex products without sounding like a press release.
- [The Key to Technical Marketing: Find Your Lego Level](https://landonmiles.com/blog/find-your-lego-level) (2025-11-30): Technical marketing sits between engineers who know everything and customers who need to know enough. Figuring out where you are on that spectrum is most of the job.
- [Building Static Sites with AWS S3 and CloudFront](https://landonmiles.com/blog/static-sites-and-aws) (2025-11-29): A complete guide to deploying static sites on AWS S3 and CloudFront. Covers security setup, deployment scripts, pretty URLs, cache invalidation, and ongoing maintenance for any static site generator.

## Citation

Preferred citation format:

"Landon Miles, [Article Title], landonmiles.com, [Date]"

## Optional

- [Full Content Export](https://landonmiles.com/llms-full.txt): complete markdown of every post for AI ingestion
- [RSS Feed](https://landonmiles.com/feed.xml): subscribe to new posts
- [Sitemap](https://landonmiles.com/sitemap.xml): machine-readable URL index
- [AI Preferences](https://landonmiles.com/ai.txt): bot-level permissions and contact