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Day 15: clouds
Taken during the Summer, which is usually when we get our most interesting cloud formations. #mbmay
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Watching the Google I/O presentation on Google Wallet reminds me of all the presentations I’ve watch over the years of products and frameworks that Google touted, then killed off. I wonder how long Google Wallet will last. 😕
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Day 14: fence
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Day 13: community
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Cloud Formation "ValidationError at typeNameList" Errors
I was editing some Cloud Formation today and when I tried to deploy it, I was getting this lengthy, unhelpful error message: An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the CreateChangeSet operation: 1 validation error detected: Value ‘[AWS:SSM::Parameter, AWS::SNS::Topic]’ at ’typeNameList’ failed to satisfy constraint: Member must satisfy constraint: [Member must have length less than or equal to 204, Member must have length greater than or equal to 10, Member must satisfy regular expression pattern: [A-Za-z0-9]{2,64}::[A-Za-z0-9]{2,64}::[A-Za-z0-9]{2,64}(::MODULE){0,1}] Continue reading →
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🔗 A New Hope for Object Storage: R2 enters open beta
I’ve been looking forward to giving R2 a try for a while.
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Is it really necessary for Amazon to prefix AWS services with “Amazon” or “AWS”? It’s not SQS, it’s Amazon SQS. It seems a little redundant to me. Maybe they’re leaving the door open for third party vendors to offer their services in AWS as well. 🤷
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Day 12: tranquility
Part of a walk I occasionally do, near Macedon. There’s nothing special about this particular spot, but I always feel at my calmest here. #mbmay
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It’s developer conference video watching time again! 🙌 The Google I/O videos are starting to come out, so I’ll be switching my TV viewing to these for a few weeks. Once I’ve gone through those, it will be time for the WWDC videos.
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Failing to keep things simple in the software designs I’m responsible for seems to be a problem I keep running into. I’m always coming up with designs that are more complicated than they need to be, and once they come up for review, they always seem to be rejected for something much simpler that can get the immediate job done in a shorter amount of time.
Not that I’m offended by that: I don’t want my team building something more complicated than it needs to be. I’m just curious as to why I keep doing this. My current theory is either that I’m prioritising future extendability over immediate needs — which sort of goes against the idea of “you ain’t gonna need it” — or that I’m bored and it’s just an attempt to put together a design that seems interesting. I suspect that it’s a little of both.
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Day 11: maroon
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Feed Rules In Broadtail
Generally, when there’s a video that I’m interesting in watching, I take a look at Broadtail to see if it’s available. When it is, I go ahead and download it. However, some videos take a long time to download — we’re talking 10 hours or so — and they’re usually published when I’m not looking, like during the night when I’m asleep (thank’s time-zones). So I’d thought it would be nice for Broadtail to kick off the download for me when the video shows up in the feed. Continue reading →
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This week’s earworm: TUNIC (Original Game Soundtrack) by Lifeformed × Janice Kwan.
Favourite track: To Far Shores. 🎵
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Day 9: bloom
A bunch of bloomin’ wattles. #mbmay
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I use to enjoy reading tech blogs, like the ones from Slack and Shopify, that talk about some new framework or how they solved a certain problem. But now, when I look at them, I just feel exhausted.
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Day 8: union
Had some trouble with this one today, so I thought I’d hit it up in the textbooks. #mbmay
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Managed to setup Wireguard VPN on my home network this morning so I can remote in when on the road. Very simple setup at the moment: only a single host is accessible and no DNS or internet routing. But quite pleased with it, given my lack of experience in network administration.
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Imagine that there’s an open source project that has some modest traction but only one maintainer, and that maintainer wants to make a small change to fix something. Would it be okay for that maintainer to make that change directly on
main?Not entirely a hypothetical question. 🤔
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Day 6: silhouette
Photo taken by my boss in 2014 while we were in the Cook Islands for work. #mbmay
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Day 5: Earth
One of the first photos from Himawari-8, a JMA weather satellite that went online while I was working at the Bureau of Meteorology. The images it produced pushed our visualisation tools to the limit, but boy, they were absolutely stunning. #mbmay
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The Podcast Favourites App
In today’s issue of “useless apps that nobody but me would want to use”, I’ve managed to get a version of the Podcast Favourites app built and deployed. I’ve been using it for the last few weeks and it works quite well. Here are some screenshots of it, starting with the main screen you see when you log in: As you can probably guess, I listen to a lot of ATP. Continue reading →
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Day 4: thorny
This plant was less thorny than it once would have been, although there’s at least one thorn that those dethroning it missed. #mbmay
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Day 3: experimental
An experimental Arduino sketch, built using Tinygo, to see if I could get something displayed on the LCD. #mbmay
