My thoughts on cloud, coffee and awkward human behaviours.
I started thatbluecloud.com as a blog that would focus on Azure-related solution architecture use cases and technologies, to present real world examples that would be solved using real world tech components. It started with data, specifically Microsoft Fabric, then would move on to the application and security side of
After enthusiastically building my homelab to spread out over 3 machines via Docker Swarm with the data replicated via GlusterFS, I finally had enough and pulled the plug. My homelab is no longer a cluster, and now purrs happily as a single-node server. Why? Because it gave me hell. The
There are many people in online communities who are trying to find solutions to their chronic illnesses. But some of these people become so involved in their own illness and their own symptoms, they become chronically toxic. It becomes very difficult to separate their toxicity from their community.
It's been two years since I purchased the Sage Barista Pro coffee machine, and long story short, it sucks.
Being a newly minted British, Euro 2024 was the first tournament I tasted supporting England. It broke my heart, though. Is this a rite of passage?
A day trip to Leeds Castle with my family, taking in the beautiful gardens and the rare nice weather
I've stayed away from AI discussions as far as I can, but it has finally pulled me in. What I've seen confirmed my suspicions: It's a piece of tech with great potential but lacks the foundations to solve valid business requirements.
I’ve lived in Greenwich for over eight years, and we have never had this much aircraft noise until the last six months.
It has been a hectic few weeks at work. I thought I’d been handling it very well, but today, I felt like I was not. Another bout of burnout looks to be on the horizon.
My favourite quotes I encountered from the books I’ve read
I’m not a very big Star Wars fan, but I did watch my fair share of the SW universe. The show ‘The Acolyte’ is plain terrible.
I started a new blog last year called That Blue Cloud. Writing article after article has been fun, but it became exhausting and burned me out. So I parked it for six months. Now, I’m thinking of going back to it.
I’ve been a great Brandon Sanderson fan, and probably have read most of his books (and there are a lot of them!). I can’t wait to read his next book in The Stormlight Archive series, Wind and Truth.
This week's UK election and Labour's landslide victory was important to me. For the first time since I've been of voting age, the party I voted for won the general election. And that says something.