diff --git a/content/links.md b/content/links.md index f13dd15..d9c80d2 100644 --- a/content/links.md +++ b/content/links.md @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ A list of links of things I've found interesting. Think of this as me sharing my * [How digital agents will redefine work itself](https://venturebeat.com/ai/onboarding-the-ai-workforce-how-digital-agents-will-redefine-work-itself/) * [Boardwalk Robotics - Alex](https://spectrum.ieee.org/boardwalk-robotics-alex-humanoid) * [Hume.ai](https://www.hume.ai) -* #### 2024-10-06 * [What's Left for Me? - Forrest Brazeal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrfEUZ0UvRo) diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-08-24-weeknote-21.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-08-24-weeknote-21.md index 1bc3f05..f7a6ac3 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-08-24-weeknote-21.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-08-24-weeknote-21.md @@ -10,4 +10,9 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Start of Rubix + lots of sales +* Severance - S01 +* Thinking about CloudOps for private cloud +* L&G incident + report \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-08-31-weeknote-22.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-08-31-weeknote-22.md index a7077bd..3391d11 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-08-31-weeknote-22.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-08-31-weeknote-22.md @@ -10,4 +10,6 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Rubix + Intangibles \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-07-weeknote-23.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-07-weeknote-23.md index 36d239c..016f9e8 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-07-weeknote-23.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-07-weeknote-23.md @@ -10,4 +10,10 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* 2 days in London - Cloud Optimisation bookcamp + Rubix +* Tim Minchin london in the evening +* Star Trek Discovery - S04 +* Sharepoint consolidation +* More Rubix \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-14-weeknote-24.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-14-weeknote-24.md index 1eddd4b..65a2e02 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-14-weeknote-24.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-14-weeknote-24.md @@ -10,4 +10,6 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Internal workshop on AWS (Barnwood) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-21-weeknote-25.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-21-weeknote-25.md index b93d2da..979d64b 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-21-weeknote-25.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-21-weeknote-25.md @@ -10,4 +10,8 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* More Rubix +* Digital Apps portfolio +* Handling customer novation diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-28-weeknote-26.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-28-weeknote-26.md index a08922b..4950e4a 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-09-28-weeknote-26.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-09-28-weeknote-26.md @@ -10,4 +10,8 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Lots of 30m calls +* Killed sharepoint site - 5000 limit issue +* Finishing aws-reporting scripts to hand over to team while on leave \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-05-weeknote-27.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-05-weeknote-27.md index 471f0d8..3846dbb 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-05-weeknote-27.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-05-weeknote-27.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ author: "liamjbennett" title: "Week Note 27" date: "2024-10-05" -description: "31-Sep-2024 - 04-Oct-2024" +description: "30-Sep-2024 - 04-Oct-2024" series: ["weeknotes"] ShowToc: false ShowBreadCrumbs: false @@ -10,4 +10,14 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +This week was the first of two weeks of well earned rest. You'll see from the past few weeknotes that I've been spending a lot of time working with one particularly large new potential customer. I love doing this, it stretches me personally, makes me re-validate assumptions and think from a customer's point of view. Despite my excitement for this time of work, it can take it's toll mentally, so I'm glad to have the time off. + +I spend this first week with the family in Centre Parcs - this year at Longleat. Meredith loved Eleven last year and this year was no different (the consistency helps). While there is the usual busy fan fair of swimming, bike riding and other adventurous activities I also really value to down time and the quiet woodland setting. + +This year I've been much better at the work detox - only permitting myself 5 mins a day to read emails (but not respond to any!). I've also been using that old GTD method of just writing down my thoughts and ideas on a page as a virtual inbox (in this case in Obsidian) which gets it out of my head and allows me to focus more on the activities in the moment. + +Anyway, it's been a great week, feeling a lot more relaxed now and I'm off home tomorrow for another week off, focused on home activities. + +Bonus: a couple of interesting links: +* [They Built This Robot For Your Home](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ccPTpDq05A) +* [I Lived With a Humanoid Robot for 48 Hours](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sb6LMPXRdVc) diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-12-weeknote-28.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-12-weeknote-28.md index 0145a06..6d2f0a6 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-12-weeknote-28.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-12-weeknote-28.md @@ -10,4 +10,22 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +I was on leave again this week and I had planned to spend it doing all the domestic activities that required action but despite a few odd jobs, mostly got distracted by other family activities. + +We're spending some time focusing on the house because we're thinking about moving next year. We've lived where we are for almost 10 years now, a lot has happened here and we both feel it's time for a change. Our house currently just sits outside of the town (5 mins drive) and we're looking to move back into the country and get the horses living on our own land. A big ambition and probably typical for the stage of our lives we're in. + +I suppose the only activity done this week that's relevant to the usual content I write about on here is that had my first attempt at decluttering my office. That means going through those boxes old cables, old gadgets, empty boxes and draw with books I value. + +Things I learnt re-discovered as a result of this activity: +1) I have too many old hard drives with content I don't need or use any more. Time for some review and backups. +2) No one needs that many USB cables - seriously, you don't! +3) I think my experience with using a mechanical keyboard was a bit of a failure. I used it for about 18-months, it was mostly hated in the house because of it's noise and I really didn't like it as much as my old usb Apple Magic Keyboard. I'll be selling this one off soon. Like all geeks who fall down this rabbit hole, I'll likely re-try this experiment in a couple of years time. +4) I have lots of ebooks that I don't read and only a handful of physical books that I have read cover-to-cover (some several times) these are: +* [The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33369254-the-manager-s-path) +* [Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44135420-team-topologies) +* [Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35747076-accelerate) +* [Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58330567-atlas-of-the-heart) + +Some interesting links from this week: +* [Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XzK9bx3CSPE) +* [Hume.ai](https://www.hume.ai) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-19-weeknote-29.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-19-weeknote-29.md index f501e8e..61c76a2 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-19-weeknote-29.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-19-weeknote-29.md @@ -10,4 +10,9 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Slow Horses +* Project Nimbus +* SLAs, OLAs and tagging +* Designing Offboarding workflow (and closing a few AWS accounts) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-26-weeknote-30.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-26-weeknote-30.md index 1dbdf46..f4900ba 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-10-26-weeknote-30.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-10-26-weeknote-30.md @@ -10,4 +10,9 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Project Nimbus - contracts, scripts and reviews +* Very fragmented week +* Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - S01 +* ControlMonkey \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/weeknotes/2024-11-02-weeknote-31.md b/content/weeknotes/2024-11-02-weeknote-31.md index c4aea1e..bfc95f4 100644 --- a/content/weeknotes/2024-11-02-weeknote-31.md +++ b/content/weeknotes/2024-11-02-weeknote-31.md @@ -10,4 +10,10 @@ thumbnail: "/img/main/profile.jpg" draft: true --- -XXX \ No newline at end of file +XXX + +* Writing code for azure-reporting +* Reviewing OpenShift, Anodot and Flexera - lots of vendor stuff this week +* More sales meetings and exploring/sharing the value of DNSDumpster +* Strange New Worlds - S02 +* Rivals - S01 diff --git a/layouts/section/rss.xml b/layouts/section/rss.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..203ca1b --- /dev/null +++ b/layouts/section/rss.xml @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +{{- /* Deprecate site.Author.email in favor of site.Params.author.email */}} +{{- $authorEmail := "" }} +{{- with site.Params.author }} + {{- if reflect.IsMap . }} + {{- with .email }} + {{- $authorEmail = . }} + {{- end }} + {{- end }} +{{- else }} + {{- with site.Author.email }} + {{- $authorEmail = . }} + {{- warnf "The author key in site configuration is deprecated. 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