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Weekly notes 13/2024
March 31, 2024
Thumbnail image: Callala Beach is a small town on the South Coast with brilliant white sand and aqua-blue waters. What’s been happening # It’s a long weekend...
Weekly notes 12/2024
March 26, 2024
Thumbnail image: #ausgp - The 2024 Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park, Melbourne. Another delayed weekly note as we got back from a long weekend out in...
Weekly notes 11/2024
March 18, 2024
Thumbnail image: Mount Rainier, captured as I was departing Seattle for Los Angeles and then to Sydney. What’s been happening # It’s been a long week here at...
Weekly notes 10/2024
March 10, 2024
Thumbnail image: A view of the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge from McMahons Point Wharf. What’s been happening # I’m flying back to Bellevue, will...
Weekly notes 09/2024
March 3, 2024
Thumbnail image: St Thomas Anglican Church. What’s been happening # It’s nearly a month since we moved. The last pending bit of getting the electricity...
Weekly notes 08/2024
February 25, 2024
Thumbnail image: North Sydney War Memorial, St Leonard Park. What’s been happening # It’s been another quiet week. I had a couple of my colleagues come over...
Weekly notes 07/2024
February 18, 2024
Thumbnail image: Sydney Hospital is the oldest hospital in Australia, dating back to 1788, and has been at its current location since 1811. What’s been...
Weekly notes 06/2024
February 11, 2024
Thumbnail image: Red Hat seems to have this rather huge building for their office in North Sydney. What’s been happening # I’m back in Sydney from my Seattle...
Weekly notes 05/2024
February 6, 2024
Thumbnail image: The Seattle Space Needle. What’s been happening # This week’s weekly notes are delayed because of my flight back from Seattle.. which went...
Weekly notes 04/2024
January 27, 2024
Thumbnail image: The Enmore Theatre is a theatre and entertainment venue built in 1908, located in the Enmore suburb of Sydney. Enmore Theatre is the...
Weekly notes 03/2024
January 21, 2024
Thumbnail image: Walsh Bay is the docks zone where British colonists anchored their First Fleet. Picture courtesy Jo. What’s been happening # I had my driver...
Weekly notes 02/2024
January 14, 2024
Thumbnail image: Customs House, Sydney is a heritage-listed building located in the Circular Quay. The building served as a customs house and is the site of...
Weekly notes 01/2024
January 7, 2024
Thumbnail image: The W Hotel in Darling Harbour, Sydney has a funky design. Welcome to the first weekly notes of 2024! For those who read my weekly notes on...
Weekly notes 52/2023
December 31, 2023
Thumbnail image: The Sydney Observatory is a heritage-listed meteorological station and observatory located on Observatory Hill in the City of Sydney. It’s...
Weekly notes 51/2023
December 24, 2023
Thumbnail image: Christmas lighting at Pitt Street Mall. We’re coming in on the year-end. Unfortunately, at the Trade Desk, we don’t have a winter shutdown,...
Weekly notes 50/2023
December 17, 2023
Thumbnail image: Merivale Hotel CBD - when we moved to Sydney, the Merivale Hotel CBD was one of the few venues that were open after we checked into our...
Weekly notes 49/2023
December 10, 2023
Thumbnail image: The Foo Fighters concert at the Accor Stadium, Sydney. What’s been happening # I was most excited about this week. However it didn’t start...
Weekly notes 48/2023
December 4, 2023
Thumbnail image: At AWS re:Invent with Cosmin, my former team mate. What’s been happening # Well, writing this post just a few hours after landing in Sydney....
Weekly notes 47/2023
November 24, 2023
Thumbnail image: December is here and I see Christmas tree installations all over Sydney. Here’s one from my office building. What’s been happening # An...
Weekly notes 46/2023
November 19, 2023
Thumbnail image: The Art Gallery of NSW. What’s been happening # Jo has been bitten by the Lightroom bug. She’s been taking a lot of photos and editing them...
Weekly notes 45/2023
November 12, 2023
Thumbnail image: Dior boutique is wrapped up for Christmas. What’s been happening # My second dry run happened earlier this week. It went pretty well - I...
Weekly notes 44/2023
November 5, 2023
Thumbnail image: The Strand Arcade is a heritage-listed Victorian-style retail arcade located at 195–197 Pitt Street in Sydney, New South Wales. What’s been...
Weekly notes 43/2023
October 30, 2023
Thumbnail image: Harmony Park. What’s been happening # Another delayed post, this time because I was flying back to Sydney. My vacation is over, and I’m back...
Weekly notes 42/2023
October 22, 2023
Thumbnail image: A cup of South Indian filter coffee. This week’s post is massively delayed because I’m on my vacation and I missed my usual writing time....
Weekly notes 41/2023
October 15, 2023
Thumbnail image: Driveway to my home in Mangalore. It’s been a week of several firsts. What’s been happening # The first re:Invent dry run went well. Sean...
Weekly notes 40/2023
October 8, 2023
Thumbnail image: Martin Place is a pedestrian mall in the Sydney central business district. Martin Place has been described as the “civic heart” of Sydney....
Weekly notes 39/2023
October 1, 2023
Thumbnail image: Pat Morton Lookout offers seats and a grassy area with idyllic views over the village and up Seven Mile Beach. What’s been happening # It’s...
Weekly notes 38/2023
September 24, 2023
Thumbnail image: Crown Sydney is a skyscraper in Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia. It is the tallest building in Sydney and 4th tallest building in...
Weekly notes 37/2023
September 17, 2023
Thumbnail image: The Downing Center is a major heritage-listed former department store and now courthouse complex in Sydney CBD. The building was originally...
Weekly notes 36/2023
September 10, 2023
Thumbnail image: View of the Barangaroo Wharf from The Trade Desk office. Barangaroo was used for fishing and hunting by Indigenous Australians prior to...
Weekly notes 35/2023
September 3, 2023
Thumbnail image: Million Life on Dixon Street is a brightly lit arcade featuring many “UFO Catcher” or “claw game” machines. It is said many of these...
Weekly notes 34/2023
August 27, 2023
Thumbnail image: 343 George Street, Sydney is a heritage-listed former bank building built from 1921 to 1925, and until 2008 housed the Commercial Banking...
Weekly notes 33/2023
August 19, 2023
Thumbnail image: Wartime Mural on Wyndham Club: A 14-storey black-and-white mural based on inspiration from 1940s World War II newsreels and Hollywood...
Weekly notes 32/2023
August 12, 2023
Thumbnail image: Dobell Memorial Sculpture: A shiny, reflective diamond shaped (or pyramids-like, to be more specific) tower at the intersection of Spring...
Weekly notes 31/2023
August 6, 2023
What’s been happening # In my last week’s milestone post, I missed mentioning a milestone - Thej’s been writing the Weekly notes for a year now. Thej’s...
Weekly notes 30/2023
July 30, 2023
What’s been happening # The past week has been a milestone week - it’s year of us moving to Sydney, Australia and as well as joining at The Trade Desk. I...
Weekly notes 29/2023
July 23, 2023
What’s been happening # It’s been a busy week. I wrote a blog post about how I tried to use hostname spoofing on a HTTPS request with curl and the Host...
Weekly notes 28/2023
July 16, 2023
What’s been happening # Having completed Diablo IV campaign last week, I completed the Altars of Lilith and the Strongholds. Finding the Altars were a bit of...
Weekly notes 27/2023
July 9, 2023
What’s been happening # After a three week visit to Boulder, CO and San Francisco, CA, I’m back in Sydney. It’s nice to be back after being away for so long....
Weekly notes 26/2023
July 1, 2023
What’s been happening # Ah, it’s been a busy week! I missed writing last week’s update, so here’s a combined update. I spent my last week in Boulder. I...
Weekly notes 24/2023
June 19, 2023
What’s been happening # It’s been a bad week for my gadgets. Let’s dive in. I flew into the USA this week. Before boarding, I spent a couple of hours at the...
Weekly notes 23/2023
June 10, 2023
What’s been happening # I’ll be spending my next three weeks in the US, with the first two in Boulder, Colorado, and the last week in San Francisco. I hope...
Weekly notes 22/2023
June 4, 2023
What’s been happening # We started the week with a concert - something that I booked just two days before! It all began with me sending a message to my...
Weekly notes 21/2023
May 28, 2023
What’s been happening # I wrote up about my current gaming setup - check out the full post. I also added aliases to /setup and /hellforge that points to that...
Weekly notes 20/2023
May 22, 2023
Thumbnail photo: Everglades House gardens. What’s been happening # This week’s notes post is delayed since Jo & I just returned from a weekend visit to Blue...
Weekly notes 19/2023
May 14, 2023
What’s been happening # I wrote a travelogue about our Blue Mountains road trip. If you haven’t read it yet, give it a read 😊. I had no idea Google I/O was...
Weekly notes 18/2023
May 7, 2023
What’s been happening # I’ve been meaning to try out a bunch of things that I have been procrastinating upon: Metabase llama.cpp InvokeAI Writing it here so...
Weekly notes 17/2023
April 29, 2023
What’s been happening # It’s been another busy week! It’s oncall week. At the Trade Desk, at the moment SRE’s role in oncall is primarily on a escalation...
Weekly notes 16/2023
April 23, 2023
Thumbnail image: Clock tower at General Post Office, Sydney. Check it out on my Pixelfed. What’s been happening # It’s been a busy week at work. We’ve been...
Weekly notes 15/2023
April 16, 2023
What’s been happening # Ooh it’s been chilly for the past week and the temperatures have been consistently low enough that we had to get the winterwear out....
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