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My favourite tools and services in 2018

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Rafael on January 13th, 2019

In no particular order, here's a list of the tools and services that made my life better this past year: Cushion - 2018 was the first year I spent contracting for a living; the uncertainty of future income was made much smaller by this amazing...

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My 2018 in travel

Posted by

Rafael on January 4th, 2019

This was, so far, my best year in travel. After having such a proving year in 2017, it was nice to go to new and interesting places with good family and friends.

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Cloud-Init doesn't execute commands in runcmd section? There's a fix for that...

Posted by

Rafael on October 8th, 2018

Recently I've been working with cloud-config templates and custom Amazon Linux instances on AWS, when I ran into a very weird issue: the commands I put under the runcmd section were not executed at the end of the Cloud-Init run. Weirder still was the fact...

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UniFi security gateways, cloud controllers and VLAN-tagged WANs, oh my!

Posted by

Rafael on September 6th, 2017

If you choose to install it outside of your local network, you'll find that it makes adopting devices a little trickier (at least for the initial connection) because you can't make use of Layer 2 adopting (what I like to call "magical wavey adoption funtimes").

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Tread lightly, a love letter to a bag

Posted by

Rafael on July 31st, 2016

Since returning from a 6-week international trip at the end of June, I've been meaning to write this unsponsored love letter to a piece of gear that completely changed the way I travel. But let's start with a story... A wild idea appears... The year...