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The human characteristic I admire the most is our ability to rewrite ourselves. Few things are scarier than facing ourselves. And spiders. And squeaky noises at home in the middle of the dark night. On todays edition of “What’s He Even On About ?”, me and my crayons draw a line between the above, Portugal’s geography and my dysfunctional relationship with sports.
How long down this next article will I able to resist the urge to queue in Ted Lasso references, a show I recently finished watching ? What mind-blowing observations crossed the mind of this young middle-aged adult writer while fighting the elements and the Dutch Metro transportation system ? This next piece is a train of thoughts on personal health, societal intrigue and taking metaphorical plunges without a safety net.
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I had one job today. One. Head out to a bookstore and buy classic literature books. Things did not all exactly go that way. Follow me on an intriguing discourse on productivity, self-fulfillment and cross-disciplinary learning while having the short attention span of a cat.
......Earlier tonight, after stuffing myself with enough Sushi to feed a family of five, I sat in sofa digesting over my latest self-induced first world problem.
What happened next was an incredible journey through the worlds of AI, Content Creation and tackling Writer’s Block.
Ernest Hemingway is coined to have stated that “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”. What were his thoughts, I wonder, regarding sitting at a typewriter when those red rivers have all but run dry. Does the typewriter consume ourselves, much like when our body consumes fat and muscle when out of food ? A story about the written word, the theory of everything and also nothing.
While getting my mind off more serious things, small but important updates happened during this last week. Read on for news.
Tags: #games #life #patreon #magicalcircuits #unrealengine4 #gamedevelopment #books
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I’ve been fending off the world pandemic 🙅♂️ in the “natural isolation” of a small Dutch down, where the most exciting thing that happened to me the whole week was befriending the neighbors cat. I have also been putting some work in advancing my Serious Side Project: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Unreal Engine. It’s been a big week and there are announcements to be made!
Spam tags: #games #kubernetes #containers #terraform #googlecloudplatform #docker #unrealengine4 #gamedevelopment #work-in-progress
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I have been following the Twelve-Factor App methodology for a considerable amount of years. I mean, just like the Pirate Code, I see them more as guidelines than rules. There is a factor I’d like to challenge. Can tell you how and why in this blog post I have written just for you ;)
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A few years ago, while working as an Infrastructure Engineer for a startup team, I wanted to be able to do something really simple, but powerful. To share a browser bookmarks folder of all our service endpoints with my team, preferably with two-way synchronization. I googled for existing solutions in the Firefox/Google Chrome Extension stores but found squat. So I took it upon myself to design and implement a solution, and this is what I came up with!
......Six months ago, I relocated to Germany and joined ThoughtWorks as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. It was an intense, but rewarding, experience. I got a lot out of it! Let me tell you of the days of high adventure …
