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Apocalypse accelerates …

🔗 Global Climate Highlights

Fun and informative!

🔗 Music theory for nerds

After the untimely death of Apollo app, thanks to draconian API policies of Reddit, Sink It for Reddit safari extension has made reddit browsing tolerable.

🔗 Sink It

#reddit

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#cloud #aws

While traveling around in France countryside in December, I noticed a several village name boards were upside down.

My initial thought, which I’m ashamed to say, was that some idiot messed up. But as I drove around more villages, I found more and more, which lead to me think maybe it’s a local custom.

In the end, as a good internet citizen, I looked up on the internet – it turns out it was on purpose and done as a protest by farmers.

🔗 Rural France turned upside-down by farmers

Curio became my daily goto app on dog walks, it’s an audio service that provides professionally curated and narrated news articles. The quality of narration is top notch and most of the publications I want to read are there already. Certainly recommended if you’re into listening to news on-the-go.

#AppsIUse

As more and more developers become “Cloud Native” it seems they think, computing capacity, memory, and storage is limitless. And they keep forgetting that infinite cloud scale comes with the cloud providers having infinite and uncontrolled access to the wallets of the companies paying for the services.

The hockey stick growth in cloud bill never matches nor results in any growth in company’s revenue let alone profits.

Given the incredible lack of visibility or monitoring capabilities of “managed cloud services” there’s not much to do except opening a support ticket and hoping for the best whenever something goes wrong.

And rest of the time all cloud ops engineers can do is keep refreshing the billing page and see how they can save money.

#cloud #rants

I stumbled upon lectures by Dr. Michael Sugrue some time ago and I started binging on them ever since. In explaining difficult to understand concepts (at least for me) he demonstrates exceptional proficiency.

First signed up to write.as service, but I didn’t want to use yet another hosting service. So, spent a couple of hours today to setup write freely with docker and caddy. I like the simple interface and the editor so far.

After a long hiatus from blogging, it feels like as good time as any to start publishing.

Let me introduce myself. I'm vijaykiran – working in software development for over 2 decades. I write code in different languages (Clojure, Python, Rust, and Go), work with infrastructure (AWS and that sort of things), co-host a podcast about Clojure called defn.

I'm currently studying literary and cultural analysis, and I love spending time with my Border Collie.

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