HELLOWEEN - Forever And One (Neverland) (Official Live Video) Taken off the album "United Alive"▶ FOLLOW @REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC🛒 EU: https://shopeu.reigningphoenixmusic.com🛒 US: https://shopus.reigningphoenixmusic.co...

someday, I hope to see Helloween live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ceqdP9Hbk

#music

Avenged Sevenfold - This Means War [Official Music Video] Pre-order our new album, Life Is But A Dream… Out June 2, 2023: https://a7x.lnk.to/libadNew single "Nobody" is streaming everywhere now: https://a7x.lnk.to/n...

to have the crowd sing out your guitar riffs.. fab song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgk3u44W2i4

#AvengedSevenfold #Music #Metal

Weekly Notes 16/2026 ### What's been happening The cold days continue and we've switched to winter mode. We've switched to the winter sheets and duvet so it retains the heat a bit more. I'm also wearing jeans while going to work, and carrying a hoodie around. It's only going to get colder. Speaking of cold - the swimming center where I go to learn swimming has heated interiors and pools, so that's been nice. The swimming lesson went well, and I'm slowly focussing on using my arms to propel forward. I've also got hang of floating on my back - it's still not quite 100% but better than ever before. With us hitting our 1RM on squat last week - this week was a bit lower on intensity. On Tuesday, we did a dumbbell shoulder press with the metcon of three sets of bodyweight squat, dumbbell snatch, and jack knife sit ups. These metcons have been great to improve my aerobic endurance and this was clear after I had a follow-up with my GP on the bloodwork results. On Wednesday, we did the incline dumbbell bench press, with single leg glute bridges which, for some reason, I struggled a lot. Something to improve on over the next few weeks. Work's been going on pretty ok. This week I continued on the work of moving Tableau Bridge away from Windows server to Linux, running on Kubernetes. The Tableau Bridge is a piece of software that is clearly not built for running as ephemeral workloads and it shows, with some really bizarre restrictions such as being forced to use a dedicated service account token per client, and this really kills reasonable ways of getting autoscaling to work without hacks. The other piece of work - visibility into prefix-level metrics for S3 buckets is almost ready with my team mate picking up my design and working on implementing it. We should see the benefits of that soon. * * * It's been about 10 days since we have had the batteries installed, and apart from the trickle handshake, we've not bought electricity from the grid at all. 1. Electricity usage prior to battery install which coincided with our billing cycle. 2. Usage after battery install (see blue bars almost nil 3,4: Solar generation and battery usage dashboard from the foxess-exporter. The batteries kick in just before sunset and has been powering all our appliances pretty well. I'm yet to use the aircon for heating for extended times - for the couple of times that I ran it, the dishwasher and the washing machine was running in parallel and the consumption wasn't too high. I also built an exporter that gets the metrics from FoxESS's API and publishes the data to an InfluxDB. The weekend was pretty quiet. Jo went about thrifting on Saturday and got these two cute frames. Thrifted frames Meanwhile, I went on my driving class and did a mock test - which I failed. The fails were a result of not doing blind spot checks and a few decision errors. Early on into the test, I signalled way too early. This guy in front of me thought I was going into the lane he was coming out of so he just barreled out. That was a bit of a jolt, and sort of set an early negative mindset. This is one of the areas that I should be careful, which is not to signal too early and get into the lane before that. I have one more class so hopefully for that and for the actual test, I will do better. On Sunday, we went to Bunnings to pick up some potting mix, compost, picture hanging nails and I picked up a garden hose trigger - the garden hose trigger at the front yard wasn't working and needed a replacement. I need to replace the entire hose set in the backyard as that is leaking more water than it is spraying. I also got this nice snake plant for my office and happy to have that. ### What I've been playing Path of Exile - Continued refining the reap-ignite build. This week, I used a LLM to find avenues to improve my build. A few weeks ago, I built a tool that looks at a Path of Building build code and spits it out in text format the required gear for the build. Path of Ninja lets you import your character build and get a Path of Building build code, so using that I was able to feed my character's details into Gemini and say, this is my problem, this is my build, point out where I'm doing wrong. And amazingly, it was able to provide some suggestions that have made it easier to survive. That's pretty cool. I managed to improve the survivability and damage output with the provided suggestions. ### What we ate Kokoro Mazesoba, Sydney CBD - Mazesoba is a brothless ramen that replaces soup with an umami soy-based sauce. It generally comes with wheat noodles, meat, raw egg and some other sauces that you mix up and eat. This place was Jo's recommendation so we went there for lunch. The Mazesoba was better than what I thought it would be. My order, Mala Mazesoba had good amount of heat so enjoyed it. Well worth a visit again! ### Music of the Week Tash Sultana's Jungle is her breakout song, and this bedroom recording is even more amazing to watch. ### Link of the week Listen to PyPI is a cool project by fellow AWS Hero, Mike Fielder > Listen to PyPI turns the Python Package Index into a live ambient soundscape. Every time a package is published or updated, you hear it as a tone and see it as a glowing circle While on the same _note (heh, see what I did there),_ Train Jazz is also amazing > Every dot is a real subway train. Eight hundred of them, give or take, form a small jazz combo (walking bass, piano, sax, vibes, brushes) that has been playing without pause for over a hundred years. Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data > My first troubling discovery was in 2025, when I made several errors then did a `push -f` to GitHub and blew away the git history for a half decade old repo. No data was lost, but the log of changes was. No problem I thought, I’ll just restore this from Backblaze. Sadly it was not to be. At some point Backblaze had started to ignore `.git` folders. [...] A user was surprised to find their Dropbox folder no longer being backed up. Alarmed I logged into Backblaze, and lo and behold, my OneDrive folder was missing. I don't use Backblaze but if a _**backup** _service silently ignores my backup folders, that is bonkers. ### Thanks for reading. Thanks for reading and have a great week ahead.

Week 16 summary - winter is here.

For those who use backblaze

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

> I came across this thread on reddit: “Doesn’t back up Dropbox folder?”. A user was surprised to find their Dropbox folder no longer being backed up. Alarmed I logged into Backblaze, and lo behold, my OneDrive folder was missing.

Sathya Bhat's check in at Bunnings Warehouse Homeowners second most visited place

Homeowners second most visited place

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(Bunnings Warehouse Old Windsor Road (@ Foundary Rd)

Listen to PyPI - Hear the Python Package Index in real-time Every PyPI package release becomes a sound and a glowing circle. An ambient soundscape driven by real-time Python community activity, by miketheman.

I made a thing, a soundscape based on #PyPI package data feed updates 🎶🐍📦🎶

Maybe you'll enjoy it too?
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How does the Oxide Cloud Computer's power shelf work? FAQ Friday #42

GitHub - smol-machines/smolvm: Tool to build & run portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machines. Tool to build & run portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machines. - smol-machines/smolvm

SmolVM looks interesting - github.com/smol-machine...

“Each workload gets its own kernel on Hypervisor.framework (macOS) or KVM (Linux). libkrun VMM with custom kernel: libkrunfw. Pack it into a .smolmachine and it runs anywhere the host architecture matches, with zero dependencies.”

Gorgeous sunset views from the backyard #Sydney #sunset

Truer words haven’t been spoken 😆

“90s NRIs” https://youtu.be/e6_bP_KjX3M

“ Following the school holiday period, services will increase again from Monday 20 April, with peak trains running every three minutes and 30 seconds.”

www.sydneymetro.info/article/major-boost-m1-m...

#sydney #metro #publictransport

the more I watch NRL, the more I'm loving it (and Rugby in general).

exciting day for tomorrow as the battery installers are set to add batteries to my solar setup + upgrade the inverter from the existing 5 kW one to 10 kW

not even 5pm and my post-sunset auto lights are on... depresso season is here.

about a 8 degree drop for today's temp as compared to yesterday, no wonder the socks are out.

#sydney #weather

Weekly Notes 12/2026 ### What's been happening It's my birthday week - I took a couple of days off and chilled at home. But before that, last Sunday was one of the most anticipated days as Linkin Park was playing live in Sydney. As with a lot more folks of my age, I grew up listening to a lot of Linkin Park. Today's youth have probably forgotten the days of music channels which actually played _music_ - Channel V/MTV would play a lot of Linkin Park's hits from Hybrid Theory and Meteora. Apart from that, one of my schoolmates had a CD of Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory album, and he would get it and play it in the gym we used to go to. So to kick off workout listening to Points of Authority was quite the start for a workout. With that background, yeah was really looking forward to listen to them live, and they didn't disappoint. Linkin Park was supported by Polaris, a Sydney-based metalcore band. The crowd appreciated them - but to be honest, metalcore and growling isn't something that gets me going so I don't have any opinions on them. Linkin Park, however, were great. The performance was fabulous. The performance was split into four acts, each act kicking off with a small sample of their songs with a sample of Castle of Glass. They had some spectacular lasers and light shows. Emily was still struggling with her voice (Linkin Park had to cancel their Adelaide gig because of illness) but she delivered when it mattered. One of the most unique songs was when they asked a fan to yell out a number which corresponded to different ways to play a song.. and this ended up being a disco version of... Numb. It was a disco start to Numb, one that was done well. All in all, really good evening, one that we enjoyed. We also ended up buying a tshirt each and this fantastic vinyl of the latest album, From Zero From Zero Vinyl Come next couple of days, we had two different plumber visits - one to inspect the major toilet leak and the other was a scheduled visit from Sydney Water to do water audit. The two visits were because we were kinda worried the toilet leak would have major issues, given we were having troubles with both the toilets. Anyway, with both plumbers coming on different days, they checked out all of our taps, shower heads, toilets and I ended up replacing two taps, four shower mixers (they all had cross-thread issues and were pretty old). The new ones are all quarter-turners, so they do only a quarter of a circle rotation and that eliminates the cross-threading issues. We knew this was to be done, just was hoping to take it up much later as we were budgeting for the battery install. My swimming class went well. For this class, I finally bought the swimming goggles and what a difference those have been. I still can't swim for shit but being able to see underwater meant that it was easier to keep calm and try to reorient myself. I am finding incremental improvements week-by-week so for now, practice continues. The gym sessions were good too. Squats and bench presses continue, with now doing sets of 3 reps of 80kg on the back squat and hitting another new PB of 65kg on the bench press for 1RM. I did try to do 68kg, but that was a fail. That was about it for the week, I took the Thursday and Friday off for my birthday. For my birthday gift, I got the wonderful news of yet another rate increase, which means our mortgage goes up again, twice in less time than we've paid our first two installments. Such is life, I am very grateful to be in the privileged position to write that. I'm not big for birthday celebrations, so for my birthday I just chilled at home doing some chores. On the Friday, Jo took the day off as well and we went out for a breakfast followed by catching Project Hail Mary at IMAX. Here's a small write up on how the day went. Happy birthday to me! On the Saturday, we decided to do a day trip to Blue Mountains. I wrote up separately on that as well. Our video on the day trip to Katoomba Sunday was mostly chores day - we got the clothes dried out, Jo cleared some of the weeds in the garden and I finally got to cataloguing some of the vinyls Jo had thrifted over the past few weeks Some of the thrifted vinyls ### What I've been playing Path of Exile - I finally got to finish off Path of Exile campaign with my minion build and now just starting off with the maps. I'm not enjoying the maps and I might just stop playing the build. The Steam Spring Sale is on as well and I bought some games that have been on my waitlist for long and now discounted * Gravel * CarX Drift Racing Online * Megabonk ### What we watched Project Hail Mary - After I listened to the ebook and found out there was a movie coming, I'd been waiting quite eagerly for this. And happy to report the movie was pretty good. Project Hail Mary is a faithful adaptation of the book. I found that the movie focuses more on the mid-part of the book. The start and especially the end feels pretty rushed. That said, looking back at my initial thoughts of the book, I mentioned I found the start a bit of a drag. Getting the balance of too much vs too little is hard, so I can understand why the decision was done. It didn't affect me much, Jo thought it was a bit weird to see Grace's character stand up and climb ladders a few minutes into the movie when he's just out from coma while the book goes through a few chapters before he is mobile. I also noticed there aren't as many flashbacks compared to what the book had so it can be a bit confusing or unclear on what's happening. About the negatives - I thought Grace's character has more humour injected than the book where he is pretty serious. Ryan Gosling does do a great adaptation as a goofball, seeing the stark contrast as compared to the book is jarring. I think I finally get why book lovers don't like adaptations of their favorite novels. For me, I think the biggest flaw is Stratt and how little time she gets. When I told Jo "Stratt is barely visible" - her reaction she's like who's Stratt. That sums up how little she is shown/introduced. All said, the movie is worthy of a watch and you won't feel the runtime of 2.5 hours is a drag. Just be prepared to turn off your brain when the movie goes from _this is plausible now_ to _yeah no way_.\ ### What we ate Haven, Darling Quarter - For my birthday, prior to watching the movie, we were looking for a place near IMAX. After a quick glance at different options available, we chose Haven Coffee in Darling Quarter to grab breakfast. Haven are known for their coffee and bagels, so no surprise we ordered them. Their Blueberry bagel was sold out, we ordered an Avo & Cucumber bagel (with chimichurri sauce) and Chicken Yuzu Bagel, with Jo getting her traditional almond flat white and me my cappuccino. We split the bagels and went for the avo & cucumber bagel first, assuming the chicken bagel to be the more palatable of the two. Surprise, surprise, the avo & cucumber bagel was the better of the two. The coffees were fabulous and some of the best we had - no wonder it has such a high rating. The Dingo Cafe, Katoomba - After reaching Katoomba, we stopped by The Dingo Cafe to grab something to eat. We ordered the Chicken Pesto for Jo and the Reuben sandwich for me, and cappuccinos to drink. The food was pretty good - the sandwiches came on Turkish bread which were absolutely fluffy. No complaints on the coffee - not the best that we've had but nothing terrible. The place is pretty open and has a lot of tables so it's a good place to come and sit down. ### Music of the Week John Butler's The Way Back is one of my favourites from his PRISM album and now there's a music video of the same. Absolutely smashing lyrics and fabulous instrumental work. ### Link of the week Trucking with CJ has two nice vlogs on driving a road train from Gold Coast to Bathurst as well as a POV on race week of the Bathurst 12 hour race. Good watch! ### Thanks for reading. Thanks for reading and have a great week ahead.

Week 12 summary - a quiet birthday week, a day trip and a movie screening.

v4.1 upgrade commencing.

Taking an early weekend break.

Hail Mary tix booked for Friday morning at IMAX.

Tomorrow we shall chill

Ben Gibbard - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxU3...

what a performance. Also I had no idea Death Cab for Cutie has been performing for close to 30 years.. jeez. I found out about them "only" 20 years ago

#music #deathcabforcuite #indierock

Weekly Notes 09/2026 It’s been a weird week, weather-wise. We’re slowly transitioning away from summer. This means that sunrise times been getting more and more delayed. Back when we were in the apartment, it didn’t matter so much - we’d be sleeping in till like 07:30 in the morning. Now that we’re out here, we’re up by 06:15 so that we can be out and take the 07:15 bus. Both Jo & I noticed it was a bit darker when we woke up than the past couple of weeks. And that our motion-sensing auto nightlights lit up when I walk out to the hall certainly makes it even more obvious. The week started with swimming classes - I'm getting more and more comfortable being in water. My instructor got me to get a launch myself into the water by pushing myself away from the pool wall. I also managed (with support) to swim end-to-end, which I was pretty happy with. She also got me to try to float on my back. Again, with the float support I was able to do it - and it was supremely relaxing to just kick back! It's been a fun ride so far and I hope to get getter at it over the next few weeks. The rest of the week went by pretty fast with no drama. I had my "final exam results" - it's performance review season at work and got me a chance to sit down, look back at all the things I've done in the past year and things that I can improve upon. The biggest change has been assuming scrum master responsibilities. We're an infra team, so our problem hasn't been a never-ending backlog - rather, a relatively empty backlog as we try to figure out our team identity and come up with the work we'd like to take on. As we've been focusing on cost efficiency the past year, the backlog has been pretty fluid, and makes my life as a scrum master a bit harder as lot of work are been speculative investigations. That said, it's been a good run and it's good to have a team and manager that supports and appreciates your work. It's always hard to get people to keep their tickets up-to-date, without annoying them too much, but at the end of the day - that's my job. Our gym sessions have been going well. Despite our initial hesitations on whether we'd be able to stick to the schedule, it's been ok. We've settled into a routine - Tuesday/Wednesday evenings are gym evenings. With my weightloss having stalled at around 95kg, it's been kinda frustrating. But my trainer re-did my body fat measurements - first time since I signed up. My lean weight has remained at 74kg, but my body fat has reduced from 113 kg to 95 kg, with a body fat around 25%. My trainer congratulated me on my work and gave a reminder that body weight may have remained stagnant but that's a phase and as long as it doesn't go back up it should be fine. I'll try to get some steps in over the weekends, and with the swimming classes, hopefully it will get me down to my desired weight. On Friday, Jo had a minor procedure. She's doing okay and hasn't stopped her from going to Ikea to pick up some curtain rods, or to op-shops thrifting some nice picture frames and an artwork. We also went to the nursery in Parklea markets and got a stake as support for the the rose plant (a branch of which has been falling on the floor) and a terracotta pot along with curry leaves plant. Left to right: Irises (reprint from Van Gogh museum), thrifted artwork (unknown), curry tree in terracotta pot, stake for roses * * * ### What I've been playing I've been taking a break from the ARPGs for the past week. Civilization VII is due for some big changes as well, but felt like getting a game in so I'm playing a game with Himiko as my leader, starting with the Khmer empire in the Antiquity age, then to Mahapahit in the Expansion age to the Siamese empire in the Modern age. Playing through Civ VII ### Music of the Week Polar Inc's mixes have been part of my "relax" mix since the past few months and I have been very happy to play this whenever I need to turn my brain off. Here's Pastel from Polar Inc. Pastel from Polar Inc ### Links of the week > An interview from 2036 with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman. After the stock market crash of 2026 the economy faltered, 80% of people lost their job and the US tech elite had to find a new way to keep the world moving: Energym. This mockumentary fragment depicts a dystopian world 10 years from now The Matrix, all over again. Energym | aicandytech moguls interview from 2036https://www.aicandy.be/giorgio-1 * * * Veritasium covers the xz backdoor saga including the full history of GNU & ssh and a nice explanation of how various compression algorithms work. Bit of a long watch but worth it. ### Thanks for reading. Thanks for reading and have a great week ahead.

Week 09 summary - thrifting and swimming.

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Just 12g?

Merry Christmas from downunder and greetings from Brisbane

We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal

Fun video from WSJ on their results of running a vending machine powered by Anthropic's Claude and its effects www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...

#ai #agenticai #llm

Werner featured the AWS Heroes Map in his keynote!!

heroes.dayjournal.dev

#reInvent #AWSreInvent

Weekly notes 47/2025 Week 47 summary - a visit to the emergency room, Christmas vacation plans and more.

New weekly notes is out - Week 47 summary - a visit to the emergency room, Christmas vacation plans and more.
#weeklynotes #blogpost #blog

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Steam Hardware Announcement YouTube video by Valve

Valve's new hardware looks really good. Powered by SteamOS (Arch + KDE) + great formfactor + steam library is quite unbeatable. Pricing remains to be seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKr...

#gaming #steam

Weekly notes 45/2025 Week 45 summary - Spring weather, house hunting continues, workouts and good food

New weekly notes is out - Week 45 summary - Spring weather, house hunting continues, workouts and good food
#weeklynotes #blogpost #blog

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yeah I'm exploring some of the suburbs here in Sydney (~30kms away from the CBD) and it's still mindblowing how many properties don't have Fiber end to end.

Weekly notes 43/2025 Week 43 summary - house auction experience, one year of weight training, and more.

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Week 43 summary - house auction experience, one year of weight training, and more.

#weeklynotes #blogpost #blog

Weekly notes 41/2025 Week 41 summary - a relaxed week and a concert.

New weekly notes is out - Week 41 summary - a relaxed week and a concert.

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