Fron a while ago but still relevant [Wayback/Archive] Is it Pokémon or Big Data?.
It is a cool experiment to test your own knowledge or for fun to assess recruiters or candidates (;
And it is open source too:
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Is it Pokémon or Big Data?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03
Posted in Cloud, Cloud Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Fun, Infrastructure, LifeHacker, PokemonGo, Power User, Software Development | Tagged: bigdata | Leave a Comment »
2014 memory: TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08
10 years ago, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and attend the [Wayback/Archive] GDG DevFest Netherlands 2014.
Until then, on the mobile front, I only had deep experience with the .NET Compact Framework, on the cloud framework I had no real experience: my experience were (sometimes huge) systems running in private data centers communicating with various protocols over SNA and TCP/IP (and way before that: UUCP and dial-up) and on the programming front my strengths were .NET and Delphi (with truckloads of scripting) and no experience in Go or Dart (Rust was invented a year later).
So I was really happy with the [Wayback/Archive] TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands
I think this comment by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on a G+ post is one of the best complements we’ve got:“Thanks for organizing this. It was a great conference! A great mix of things outside my comfort zone and things I could relate to from a very different perspective: wonderful and inspiring.”
G+ plus is gone, but this memory will last forever as this was a start widening my horizon learning about GDG like I knew about SDN*, Borland/Inprise/Codegear/Embarcadero DevRel and Microsoft DevRel.
Related links (they repeated the DevFest in 2015 as well):
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scaling != high availability (you more often need the latter than the former); microservices != modularisation (you hardly need the former; you *need* the latter)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/18
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I’m not the only one storing tech gadgets in flight cases (:
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05
It was about 2 years ago that Jilles reminded me I had a flight case with gadgets too.
Back when I assembled it in 2018, I had big plans for showing private “cloud” container experimentation and gadget stuff at conferences. Then 2019 kicked in with rectum cancer.
So it was good that he helped me motivating to get it working again, especially as the time around assembling it so much fun and working on it brought back those days.
Here are the pictures:
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s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.
Via/related:
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Some pCloud links
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/27
For my link archive (Swiss pCloud is GDPR conformant, has European servers in Luxembourg, supports Windows/MacOS/Linux/Android/iOS and various browser extensions).
Before the lists of links: note that cloud storage is not a back-up (despite many of them trying to lure you into thinking they are), so note two things:
- Backup stuff in multiple places.
- A backup is only a backup if you can prove that a restore from backup functions well.
The links:
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Nuking resources from (sandbox) AWS accounts
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/02
I will need this one day as keeping resources up for sandbox or test accounts can cost a lot when things do not happen according to plan:
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke: A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it
- [Wayback/Archive] rebuy-de/aws-nuke: Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.
Both have been written in golang.
Warning: these can be abused, wreak havoc when accidentally used in production, or not even delete all (it’s software; there might be bugs).
Via:
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GitLab pages issues today again? (and report on 2023-10-30: Gitlab.com is down (#17054) · Issues · GitLab.com / GitLab Infrastructure Team / production · GitLab)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
Still working on handling open Chrome tabs after having moved in the period that GitLab had quite a few issues causing my PagerDuty alerts to go wild.
Today PagerDuty gave me 7 calls in 4 hours again (see [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@gitlab Since 20240312T1727Z I get PagerDuty alerts from HetrixTools for some pages hosted on GitLab. It would be nice if someone could have a look at gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/17717“).
In adddition I need to check if anything made it to the GitLab issue list from the 20230827 connectivity issues I mentioned at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Is it @gitlab hosting having transcontinental issues, or are other continental connections affected as well? These are from two different *.gitlab.io pages as measured via @HetrixTools . No issues are listed at status.gitlab.com“.
Back then, this was the most important one: [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status: GitLab.com availability issues – October 30, 2023 15:39 UTC
Likely because of this, wiert.me.gitlab.io had been down for a while as well on 20231031 (see [Wayback/Archive] wiert.me.gitlab.io (Recent History) – HetrixTools down from 2023-10-30T15:24Z until 2023-10-30T16:14Z for 3 + 3 + 11 + 27 = 44 minutes.)
Back then, the hardest part was to quickly find out if there was indeed an issue being investigated at all.
The GitLab status multi-media account on Twitter just points to the status page, which makes it hard to find the underlying issue.
I didn’t archive that one in time, but when I got the alerts it didn’t show anything and when it was resolved it was already beyond the cut-off timestamp to mark it as “same day” and the graph didn’t show much down-time [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status graph didn’t show much down-time:
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b0rk does fun things with DNS: CNAME records at the root of the domain; technically not allowed, definitely not recommended, but somehow work for web browsing
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/21
[Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “I’ve always heard that you can’t create CNAME records at the root of the domain. But apparently you can? It seems to work fine as far as I can tell but I’m curious about the possible consequences. (yes, I registered cnameroot.com just to make this tweet) “
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Looking for maintainer(s) for fritzcap (Python project that captures calls from a Fritz!Box)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/12
Given my health uncertainty, I am looking for maintainers for the fritzcap project (it captures calls from a Fritz!Box modem/router and is written in Python).
History
The fritzcap project was originally started in2007 by [Wayback/Archive] spongebob | IP Phone Forum, first as a binary fritzcap.exe Windows executable (see his first post at [Wayback/Archive] FritzBox: Tool für Etherreal Trace und Audiodaten-Extraktion | IP Phone Forum). In 2010 it became an open source Python project at [Wayback/Archive] Google Code Archive – Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 