Gonzalo's thoughts

Some tips for Windows EKS node startup time As I’ve mentioned before, we use Windows nodes (and Linux as well) in our build cluster.

PowerShell issues in Containerd v2 This is not a great post with a great solution.

I’m optimistic A few days ago I read this eerie fiction story about the risks of AI personal assistants, automation and self-improving loops.

Discovering agents This week I followed an interesting course on AI agents.

LLM-scaffolding A couple of weeks ago, I went to an event about AI and trading.

Email Whispery After Xowit and Kids Xowit, the third experiment of the year is up.

Kids-Xowit A couple of months ago I mentioned that I wanted to keep experimenting.

ASL-3 You might have read that the most recent model from Anthropic, Claude Opus 4 might resort to blackmail if told it will be removed.

I’m always full of ideas.

[Really dull post about virtualization in Windows] For the last couple of months, I’ve been (on and off) working with others in a project to migrate development environments so that we developers can use both virtual machines with Vagrant+Hyper-V AND WSL.

Deeplens, is it dead?

A really small post to document a fix to an issue.

A few months ago I heard for the first time the term low-background steel.

A few days ago, while working on my post about how y=x3 might be a good activation function, I discovered an issue with tensorflow-metal, the python package to use your GPU in Tensorflow on a Mac.

UPDATE: It turns out it was not crazy at all.

A happy user I joined Monzo in 2016.

Improving Windows build times in EKS I cannot believe a year has passed since my last annotation (which was also EKS and Windows related).

Windows 2022 in EKS Update: This article is no longer relevant.

Debugging windows nodes in EKS After a couple of days dealing with windows nodes in Kubernetes AWS EKS, I thought I would provide a quick write-up of what I’ve seen.

Single instance with persistent EBS Sometimes you only want a single instance in AWS.

NAT Gateway A quick intro in AWS networking In AWS, it is very common to create your own isolated network, in what is called a VPC (from virtual private cloud).

New trend My daughters call me a senior and boomer.

This post is a basic copy of this AWS page on how to create an AWS account.

I’ve decided I’m going to start writing again, even small things.

[This is mostly a translation of this other article in Spanish that I wrote for people in Spain.

Yes.

Introduction A few weeks ago there was an attack on Capital One’s AWS infrastructure that lead to the compromise of personal information on around 100M people.

I’ve been doing some research on credentials compromise and abuse in AWS.

These days I’m reading a fascinating book on Roman History called SPQR.

UPDATE: A few days after publication, the documentation now includes some examples.

For many people not living in the UK, it will come as a surprise that the railway system in London is quite expensive and provides a really bad service.

I enjoy buying books.

I’ll start sharing a secret.

Dear recruiter, Thank you for contacting.

You’ve probably seen the video presentation about Google Duplex, the new assistant created by Google that can make phone calls that sound totally human interactions to the human on the other side (and to anyone listening).

One of the things less obvious for anyone trying to setup Cloudwatch alarms is the treatment of missing points.

This is a story for my friend C.

If you don’t know who is Jack Ma, he’s the founder and CEO of Alibaba, the marketplace and reportedly the richest person in Asia.

TLDR; VR on macOS means beta, crashes, unusable WebVR, and no games.

I have a two year old mid-level Android phone (Moto G 2015) not capable of using Google Cardboard.

For the last month or so I’ve been running a small experiment in my Linkedin profile.

In the late 90s there was some craziness in the air.

For many people, disruption in Financial Services are new banks that are building the platform from the ground up.

I like Netflix.

Tech startup founded by non-tech founders.

There is a new report that associates Let’s Encrypt with phishing.

It’s in the news.

Imagine you are interviewing some guy for an IT role and she says that he doesn’t get that of “going to the cloud because everybody knows there are no datacenters in the sky”.

Werner’s keynote — https://youtu.be/65unhiJNaok?

Why One of the issues in a container-based architecture is how painful it is going from code to deployed containers.