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  • Farewell AWS

    Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn...

  • The Grand Hyatt Gets an AI Agent

    I have just returned home from a two week work trip. As part of that trip I spent two nights at the Grand Hyatt in Se...

  • Amazon Web Services - Four Years and Out

    Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday. I have to say being fired from AWS is actually...

  • Revisiting Trademarks

    Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially...

  • GrafanaCon 2026

    I recently attended my first GrafanaCon, held in Barcelona, Spain, from 20-22 April. I hated it. TL;DR; There was a l...

  • Revisiting Email

    NOTE: As usual, this blog expresses my opinions and not those of my employer As an “old” I really love email. It was ...

  • Killing Open Source

    NOTE: As usual, this blog expresses my opinions and not those of my employer I first got exposed to modern open sourc...

  • 2026 All Thiings AI

    Directly after attending this year’s Monki Gras conference, I was home for exactly one evening before driving to Durh...

  • 2026 Monki Gras

    Hazel Weakly starts off her presentations with the words “I have thoughts, lots of thoughts”. That pretty much sums u...

  • Is MySQL Due for a Renaissance?

    Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Intern...

  • New Laptop

    It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one ...

  • Happy Anniversary: Revisiting the AGPL and CLAs

    The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...

  • Home Assistant and DNS

    One of my New Year’s initiatives is to move even more of my services from third-party providers back under my control...

  • Billie the Platypus

    As I mentioned in my re:Invent post I got to meet Corey Quinn back in December and I follow his “Last Week in AWS” bl...

  • 2025 re:Invent - How AWS Stole Christmas

    First off, apologies for the click-baity title, but as this year marked the fourth re:Invent since I joined AWS I wan...

  • Zürich and Vaduz

    I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who h...

  • NixCon 2025

    Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by eve...

  • It's Always a Physical Layer Problem

    When I moved a few years ago I needed to re-think my networking architecture. At the old place I ran a lot of Cat6 ca...

  • Introducing hugo-planet

    Months after migrating from Wordpress to Hugo, I’m still pretty happy about the switch. Whenever I read about a new W...

  • Open Source, GenAI and the Post-Truth Society

    One of my favorite TV shows of all time is The Big Bang Theory. It is somewhat divisive among my circle of friends, b...