Here we go again! This time it’s the #AWSSummit in London. A bit of coffee through the system is definitely needed this morning 😅

Even though I left the VFX industry over a year ago, this story over the weekend still hits home. MPC gave me the opportunity to lead one of the best teams I could have asked for on several feature films.

Good luck to everyone affected today.

Nicely done, is this with Cycles or Eevee? Directly from Blender or from a scene description file? (Inner VFX Pipeline nerd coming out 🤓)

Aha! Sounds like my time roaming the streets of Vancouver and Toronto

It’s at the Lowry so quite some distance away

😂 im scared now, but also intrigued what the mystery of Piccadilly gardens is

Zak is patiently waiting for his train into London from his home town, West Drayton

Time to start my overnight journey up to Manchester for #ServerlessDays I’m looking forward to meet fellow peers in the field and to learn!

I went with Vault (using sidecars) as my first option, but I’m still in the “finding the best one for me” phase

A brutal but pretty accurate assessment of the state of R&D / Tech industry within the EU, and quite an ambitious plan to tackle it.

Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end

dwight schrute and michael scott from the office are standing next to each other in an office . ALT: dwight schrute and michael scott from the office are standing next to each other in an office .

😂 looks like you’re having a whale of a time over there, these articles are getting wilder and wilder

I’ve heard a lot about OVHCloud and used Exoscale. The EU is behind in offering managed services & serverless architectures, but kind of makes up for it offering managed Kubernetes.

Luckily the EU is actively funding competition from European soil so we should see some companies prosper soon 🤞

GitHub - koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - koekeishiya/yabai

I do something similar but with Yabai, to organize my window layout with Sublime + iTerm, launch apps on specific screens etc.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

Deploying AWS Site-to-Site on OpenWRT I connected OpenWRT to AWS using IPSec, BGP, Ansible and Terraform.

#OpenWRT unlocks a lot of potential from consumer grade routers.

I took some time to extend my personal network into #AWS through #IPSec and #BGP, allowing me to stream gaming workloads and take advantage of high-resource databases securely.

Very interesting, thanks for the explanations! I just went in researching the different bands and their intentions.

Good thing there’s a license behind transmitting as that sounds like a rabbit hole for me 😅

I have many questions (I’m a curious boy)

Did you notice it while casually browsing frequencies?
Is your receiver far from these countries that these frequencies seem odd?

I was fascinated by how world-war time communication was achieved with a form of encryption so this tickles my interest 😬

Aha, of course! Homemade recipes trumps all.

My next one is Advanced Networking

I use good ol' Pluralsight for foundations, then make errors on my projects. Debugging why something isn't working is my best approach 😅

I've worked 8 years in VFX as a Python Dev & I.T. so I had already been exposed to a range of applications for cloud & tooling

Best of luck!
What’s the most important “sugar-less” thing you’ll think you’ll miss?

I have quite a few “P” projects of my own I’d like to take off the ground, keep going on my certification journey and find my next big city in Europe 🇪🇺

Exoscale Exporter for Prometheus I'd built a Prometheus exporter for Exoscale, allowing me to visualize cloud spending and resource usage from a central location... Read more

Last summer, I developed a #Prometheus exporter to get a grasp on #Golang development and for centralizing metrics from various cloud providers within a single dashboard. Hopefully I get round to implementing a response cache 😬

😂 Hopefully that'll also be me in a few months time. Good luck! :)

I used sipgate when I was based in the UK (~5 years ago). I can still see their PAYG rates so hopefully it’s still a thing?

I liked them because they didn’t charge extra for using a SIP client so I could integrate it into Asterisk & Android

iPad Mini 5 running an app with Flow, a node graph editing library.

After years of procrastination, I finally tackled writing with #Swift *and* building for #iOS.

AudioKit’s Flow library is a dangerous precedent for me to get unhealthy. The possibilities from the sofa would become endless..

Everyone's moving back to this side of the pond 🇪🇺 😎

It's sad to see the downfall of the VFX industry out there, but it's time to move on 😬

It's like I've travelled back to Montréal! Nice to see you lurking in the skies sir 😉

Get your tickets from December 20th!

I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.

⬇️ Check out the trailer ⬇️

I haven't dived into Busuu, but that does sound like an interesting approach (similar to immersion). I'll definitely give it a chance at some point!

I’d definitely agree with you on LingQ there 😅, especially if they use a different lettering system.

Glossika is great for when “flashcard-based” doesn’t work, which is my case. I’d struggled to engage with Rosetta Stone, Anki, Duolingo, Drops & Memrise

I bounce between AWS and DigitalOcean

AWS is great (and addictive) for R&D and complex ideas whereas for a simple Kubernetes cluster, DigitalOcean does a decent job for the price.

I switch between Arch & Ubuntu and use Ansible and PXE to bootstrap machines with them. Ubuntu is my fallback when I need security patches and stability (e.g: my NAS)

CoreOS for building a k3s cluster was prettty lightweight, but I haven’t been able to adopt it.

Pretty cool, I’ve not tried CS2 but I remember CS:GO being pretty addictive back in the day. The only one I’ve managed to maintain over the years is Rocket League 🚀