# landonmiles.com

> Technical marketer who translates complex products into clarity. Tutorials, experiments, and insights on AWS, AI, and building useful things.

Last updated: 2026-02-12

## About

- Name: Landon Miles
- Role: Senior Technical Marketing Specialist at Automox
- Location: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Email: hello@landonmiles.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonmiles

## Important Links

- [Home](https://landonmiles.com)
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- [Blog](https://landonmiles.com/blog)
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## Topics

- technical marketing
- aws and cloud infrastructure
- ai tools and workflows
- linux and command line
- developer productivity

## 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) - Command-line fluency separates users from builders. Why the terminal still matters, how shells actually work, and the commands that transfer across every platform 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. Precision beats superlatives. Here's how 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. Finding the right abstraction level – your Lego Level – is the whole game.
- [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

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