What’s making me happy 30-04-2017

New #happy post, even if a bit late :-P

Humane Development
“… sitting a butt in a chair does not magically produce work …” A good article combining some common-sense idioms about software work. I don’t agree with all points wholeheartedly but the main point is solid.

Interesting post in Wealth Simple about Anthony Bourdain, showing a bit of an insight to making money in publishing business (spoiler: it’s hard).

BirdCheese is an absolutely adorable art blog focusing mostly on birds.

Picked up BioShock Remastered as I’ve failed to play it earlier but the style looked fascinating so I decided to give it another go. Did not disappoint.

Picked up Max Frei again, this is about the 5th time I’m re-reading the entire series of books and it somehow continues to be equally entertaining.

Finally visited Taronga Zoo. First time seeing a Kangaroo live, I have to admit, even though I’ve lived in Australia since September.

 
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Retrieving GCE metadata map

GCE metadata can be a useful tool for getting the information about the running instance. One needs to know exactly where to look for a particular key however. For that, the metadata actually supports a ?recursive=true parameter,... Continue →