Je voudrais commencer en dissant que ce-ci est mon premier post en francais (j’ai utilise languagetool.org), alors aies-moi patience. Il fait déjà 1+ an que moi et ma famille, nous avons déménagé en Belgique. Je ne me sens pas étranger aux déménagements disruptifs comme ce qu’on a fait, mais de le faire avec un enfant de cinq mois, c’était énormément dur. Dès que je suis arrivé en Belgique, au travers du système d’immigration, j’étais obligé de m’enregistrer à la commune pour commencer mon processus pour vérifier mon statut et pouvoir recevoir ma carte de séjour.

I have just completed a 1000 days streak on Duolingo learning French (from English) and I wanted to make a blog post dedicating this achievement to Duolingo and all the language enthusiasts that are using it across the world. In my humble opinion, as a technologist and ethusiast myself, Duolingo is one of the best apps that have ever existed. I have to say that there wasn’t any time while using it where I didn’t notice the effort that went into building it.

Hey blog, long time no see. I’ve been incredibly busy these last couple months. Apologies to you for not updating your content as often as I’d like to. I intend to post this in HackerNews, so if you’re coming from there, hello 👋 ! Recently, someone approached to me in Reddit asking me if I had any general advice for an “first time | entry-level | junior DevOps Engineer”

It’s been recently noticeable that me and my team have had to halt development or progress due to a Github outage. This has been much more visible since Microsoft acquired Github As an SRE myself, I can’t help but wonder what is going on at Github/Microsoft… Is it because Github moved to Azure and the real cause of unrelaiblity is that Azure can’t cope? Is it because Github has a ton more features that are not well built?

I remember of coming up with a random joke prank, so when I stumbled upon this comment in the /r/bash subreddit, I absolutely had to try it. I modified it slightly and used a one-liner jokes list I found in Github too. It works in macOS monterey 12.2.1 Here’s what it does: Sets the volume at maximum Creates a temp dir in ~ ($HOME) Downloads a list of jokes from Github Select one randomly and say it out loud using the computer speakers Remove the list of jokes #!

Quick update after what I believe was my most popular post ever. I received an suggestion over an email message to enable IPv6 in this blog. Thing that I been meaning to do for a while now as I’ve been wanting to show my support to the cause So what did I do? Given that I’m hosting the whole thing in AWS (Cloudfront, S3, Route53), it really was trivial to do.

It has been a while since I’ve been working as SRE/Platform/Cloud Engineer, and lately and I realize I’ve been repeating some questions to developers that I rarely get an answer for straight away. These are not meant to make anyone’s life harder, au contraire, the whole pourpose of having a solid answer to this list of questions, is to make everyone less worried about the probabilty of some high stakes, overnight failure or a data handling missuse that could potentially cause big losses, and of course a lot of unnecessary stress.

I just found this precious little jewel on the internet. The HumanOps-mantra I’m re-posting here as I strongly believe in every single point made in it. HumanOps Mantra Humans build and fix systems. Humans get tired and stressed, they feel happy and sad. Systems don’t have feelings yet. They only have SLAs. Humans need to switch off and on again. The wellbeing of human operators impacts the reliability of systems.

Introducing whatip.info. A very very simple Go program behind an NGINX server to resolve and return the remote IPv4 (and soon IPv6) address. My motivation behind it is dead simple: I need that exact functionality from something I know I control. Prior to this, I was using several alternatives: ifconfig.me ifconfig.co icanhazip.com All work great but I wished to curl something of my own making. Thus whatip.info was born.

I had a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) or as people know it, Brain Stroke on August 9. After 2 months of recovery, I’m back to normal and I feel great :) It seems it had to do with an issue with my blood coagulation and my heart health… It disturbed my vision and motricity… but I’m ok now. Needless to say, it was a very scary experience. I got a bit depressed and sometimes anxious when I was recovering, but I stuck with a strict diet and exercise regime which helped enormously and helped with the mood changes.