Chris Rants at Clouds

A few new blogs for my reader and the blogroll Jon Seager (feed) Kevin Gimbel – DevOps, Photography, Games (feed) And big site changes to the blog On Friday, I ripped out over-engineered Comentario as it’s roundly not compatible with any site them that can

Loving this timely post from @Westenberg today!

I’ve been quite interested lately about how one would standardise git commit messages throughout a devops / platform engineering team to follow best practice, and to use them for automated release notes and automatic semantic versioning.

I originally wrote this just before I turned 50 in 2023.

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Proton Email vs Self-Hosted Email For nearly a decade I self-hosted my own mail server on an Ubuntu AWS Instance, but a few years back, it all got to be too problematic - for the same sorts of reason Jerry Bell, Admin of my Mastodon server, talks about he…

Readers, I’ve been on the internet also since it started existing.

My Blogroll My interests, like the things I talk about in this blog - are varied.

7 Days on a 2-Point Story So, with just a bit of rough estimation, I have about a decade’s worth of experience with developing infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Happy Holidays For my American audience, happy Independence Day!

After watching it be developed, I’ve given in and bought Techworld With Nana’s DevSecOps Bootcamp.

A “Working” Holiday On the 22nd of May, me and the missus, plus my eldest and her partner jetted off to Texas with the plan to stay 1 day in Fort Worth to visit the stockyards, then to drive across Texas, visit my grandparents graves, and head onto Odessa…

It’s Been 40 Days Since My Last Contract Finished Yeah, getting worried now.

Work and Looking for A New Role It’s been a month now “between contracts”.

I went in for 1 can of Cider Popped into town for lunch and went into the craft beer place for a nice can of cider.

Last Day in the Office On Tuesday, I made my way into office one last time to give back my company laptop, give back my locker key, and most importantly to get my Ergodox EZ mechanical keyboard and sexy Logitech MX Master 3S back.

Where Were We?

Over at Ashley’s As Ashley was away over the weekend, I had to pop over a few times to feed the cat.

It sort of just came out of the blue One moment you’re worrying about whether they’re gonna renew you.

Excellent Friday Both Thursday and Friday were bloody excellent days at work.

Beyond Journey’s End Today I subscribed to Crunchyroll via Amazon Prime as I wanted to watch “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End”.

Friday @ Work Expecting the usual post full of complaint about how shite work is?

Triggered The day started pleasantly enough.

Yet another mostly-quiet day.

Work Last Friday was better at work for reasons I can’t put my fingers on.

I am apparently, what you might call, an agent of chaos.

Food Had the most lush smoothie for brunch.

All in all, a better day.

A mixed bag over the last few days.

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Out Again Seems we need go somewhere, every. single. weekend.