Add last 3d, change .drone.yml for new location of website

.drone.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ steps:
       port: 22
       args: '-6'
       source: public/
-      target: /var/www/sabbatical.ipng.nl/
+      target: /nginx/sites/sabbatical.ipng.nl/
       delete: true
       recursive: true
       secrets: [ drone_sshkey ]

content/blog/wk14day5.md

@@ -1,7 +1,52 @@
 ---
-title: "Week 14, Friday:"
+title: "Week 14, Friday: Got screens?"
 date: 2024-11-01T21:55:00+02:00
-draft: true
 ---
 
-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/eclipse-sound-syndicate.png" alt="Credit: Eclipse Sound Syndicate, YouTube" >}}
+
+In the morning I spent some time tidying up my basement. I really want to make sure it doesn't
+revert to the pigsty it was three months ago. I spent a almost week cleaning it up! Today marks the
+start of my last weekend before shipping back off to a dayjob. In the morning, I play with the newly
+created Microsoft flightsim and cruise around over the Zurich metropolitan area with my trusty
+Cessna. This is going to go down as one of the small wins of this sabbatical - I learned a new
+thing, and thanks to my buddy Tim invested in reclaiming an old project that had been on the wayside
+for north of 12 years!
+
+For lunch, Marina and I make delicious _Smos Gezond_ [healthy sandwich] with tomato, salad, ham,
+cheese on a ciabatta bread. It's absolutely delicious. But then after lunch, the doorbell rings and
+there's a guy with a truck. He doesn't speak English or German or Dutch or French or Swedish (heh),
+the languages in which perhaps we might converse. I think maybe he's polish but he is babbling and
+simply shows me a screenshot of an address in Frankfurt. Oh crap! It's the guy picking up IP-Max's
+ASR9010 which is still in my garage. The problem is however, that the company said that this router
+would _not_ be picked up today. Seeing as an ASR9010 is not the cheapest (or lightest of kit), I
+need to test this dude.
+
+We walk to the truck, which has Polish plates. But the guy turns out to be Russian, and I'm on the
+phone with Fred. Fred is having lunch with the crew there in Geneva, and that's my break. Anastasia
+is there also, so I put her on the phone with a simple mission: "Nastia, get this guy to confirm he
+is legit, and that you are OK with him taking your router to Frankfurt". Such a wonderful human
+thing happens next - I put my phone on speaker and she speaks to the guy, who is visibly relieved
+that he can now communicate. They babble in their weird cyrillic tongue, and after a while he hands
+me the phone with a smile. Anastasia confirmes: "we're all good!" so I let him take the pallet with
+the router. отличная работа!
+
+In the evening we watch a terrible movie called _The Substance_ (2024). The film stars Demi Moore as
+a TV host who is fired and given a "substance" that allows her to create a younger, more beautiful
+version of herself. However, she must take the serum regularly, and the older version of herself
+begins to rapidly deteriorate. The climax of the film involves the older version transforming into a
+grotesque, multi-headed creature. It's a body horror film that explores themes of aging, beauty
+standards, and the pressure on women in the entertainment industry.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2305.JPG" caption="The flightsim in its final configuration" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2306.JPG" caption="Got smos?" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2308.JPG" caption="IP-Max ASR9010 ready for shipping" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2309.JPG" caption="This ASR9010 is headed for NTT Frankfurt" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-01/IMG_2312.JPG" caption="Don't do drugs, mmkay" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}

content/blog/wk14day6.md

@@ -1,7 +1,24 @@
 ---
-title: "Week 14, Saturday:"
+title: "Week 14, Saturday: Bami Goreng"
 date: 2024-11-02T21:55:00+02:00
-draft: true
 ---
 
-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/9T9_DnB-03.png" alt="Credit: 9 To 9 DnB, YouTube" >}}
+
+
+Today I spent the whole day kind of just ... hanging out. I need to decompress from this wonderful
+experience, so I potter around a little bit in the sim, trying to practice soft landings.
+
+In the evening, I made Bami Goreng, but I don't feel like writing about my day today.
+
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-02/IMG_2313.JPG" caption="Landing at 0.92G but -211fpm is OK but not great" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-02/IMG_2314.JPG" caption="I make us a fresh batch of Bami Goreng" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}
+

content/blog/wk14day7.md

@@ -1,7 +1,64 @@
 ---
-title: "Week 14, Sunday:"
+title: "Week 14, Sunday: Archiving Sabbatical"
 date: 2024-11-03T21:55:00+02:00
-draft: true
 ---
 
-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/soulfulliquid-03.png" alt="Credit: Soulful Liquid, YouTube" >}}
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+Well, I guess that's it for this blog. I will spend one more day care-free and then tomorrow, I will
+start work again, in a different building, with a different manager and team, and with a
+significanly different mission.
+
+I will say that I really really needed this. I didn't know how much I needed it fourteen weeks ago
+when I started my break. I've been doing Site Reliability Engineering for 18+ years at this company,
+and very strongly identify with the discipline of reliability engineering. I've built some of the
+most high performing SRE teams at Google, possibly the planet, in my first 10 years of tenure as a
+manager. I'm looking at you, Geo SRE and Identity SRE. Then, I spent the next ~8 years as an
+individual contributor working on _Production 2020_, the re-imagination of the internal control and
+management plane of Google services, where I got to help teams in the areas of observability
+(Automon!), change management (Annealing!), capacity (Autocap!), and incident response (OMG!)
+through initiation, childhood and adolescence. I am incredibly proud of those teams, their ambition,
+drive, and most importantly their unique subject matter expertie. These are some of the most
+talented and dedicated software and systems engineers I have ever met.
+
+Next week, I'll fly to New York to properly integrate into a new (software engineering) team at
+Google: Core Developer. If I compare it to the P2020 stuff, it's a natural fit in a way. Google has
+a huge amount of infrastructure to facilitate the software development life cycle with thing that
+come _to the left of_ devops or SRE. It starts all the way to the left with editors and IDEs (like
+Cider with its upcoming AI functionality), but also think about the source versioning control
+(Piper), or the build system (Blaze and Forge), or Google's Continuous Integration systems (TAP,
+Guitar, ITS), and the release tool that hands over the fully tested and ready-to-rock binary
+artefacts to our P2020 Rollouts tool. 
+
+My move into Core Developer will be an exploration of the lefthand side of this SDLC, and a specific
+mission together with Brian and his leadership team to advance the state of the art in software
+development in two ways. Firstly, we have an existing private cloud at Google called Borg. It's
+hugely popular and hosts most all of Google's products inside of it. I've grown up in Borg, and
+designed and operated largs parts of the tooling ecosystem that manipulates it. But we have a
+second, more rapidly growing environment: Google Cloud. The look-and-feal of GCP is different, in
+many ways superior (and in some ways inferior) to Borg. Secondly, I think there's no stopping the AI
+revolution. I am seeing interesting trends in software engineering, the industry is starting to move
+more towards a set of tools that can generate the code from _other artefacts_, such as for example a
+_Product Requirements Document_. I don't know yet if we'll truly be successful, but I do see that
+if we are, that the SDLC will drastically change. 
+
+I celebrated my last day in the morning with Johnny at Milandia playing Padel. On the way back, I
+took a long bikeride to mentally prepare myself for this new part of my journey.  I will be
+dedicating the next few years of my life figuring out, together with Core Developer and SRE's
+Production 2020 teams, how to evolve our tools to be both _Cloud Native_ as well as _Agentic_.  And
+that's going to be a lot of fun.
+
+Melancholically, I will say that this is the last of ninety-eight short stories about my day.
+Knowing that I've done this before (for example on many roadtrips with my best friend WEiRD), I am
+confident that I will be re-reading this story from time to time. Wish me luck!
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-03/IMG_2315.JPG" caption="My Trusty Stromer at Milandia" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-03/IMG_2317.JPG" caption="Johnny and I are playing Padel" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-11-03/IMG_2318.JPG" caption="I bike home past the airplane museum at Dubendorf airport" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}
+