Patrick @patrick@cloudisland.nz

Testing Starlink (future use will be events and things that I go to)

Usually it is DNS.

Sometimes it is your NAT instances not having sufficient bandwidth.

Today it is that one. (This is the point I try not to think about how much all this data costs)

Surprise trip to re:Invent in November. First time heading to the US since 2019.

Until next time Ōtautahi

Little bit of fog in Christchurch today.

I can recommend #kiwipycon though. Fabulous crowd.

Seems #kiwipycon is done, and turns out the post in person conference low is just as bad as the post virtual conference low.

Unrelated, this image.

Some photos of Ōtautahi Christchurch.

🛬, hello 🇳🇿

Time to fly again! (This time to Christchurch for Kiwi PyCon)

Just your average Monday night.

Doing an ultrasound (fasting incl no water for 6 hours) and blood test that require fasting (overnight) so I only have to fast once sounded like a good idea yesterday.

Now as I wait for the blood test thirsty and hungry I feel differently 😂

Not a bad effort for the last few days.

Oh look it is time to answer another customer’s Vendor Questionnaire.

To be fair these don’t scare me as much now I know how few questions are actually fails (and not “oh, ok, I guess that’s not really a deal breaker after all”)

Visitor

If you wanted a DevOps role to be found by people in NZ where would you post it? (Asking for a friend who is in fact me)

I'm reading Amazon’s SOC 2 report and reviewing/signing off on our complementary user-entity controls and … I definitely deserve a lot of chocolate.

I do believe that it is cat photo o’clock

Tomorrow has two interviews - one where I interview a candidate, one where I’m being interviewed (internal position, doubt I’ll get it, not sure what I’ll do if I don’t, I think it might be time to talk to some people internally about some other options)