It’s been a while since I posted an update on the new house. We’re very nearly done! Here’s a quick sneak peek at our front door. (Don’t mind the dirt, it’s actually been power-washed since this picture was taken.)

Hello, AUS.

In this image, the cat is Terraform and the frog is my carefully-constructed set of modules. Alternately, the cat is Terraform and the frog is my hope that my configuration will actually work. The interpretation is up to you.

Finding and fixing all the hard-coded instances of "0.0.0.0/0" is the #IaC version of Whack-a-Mole.

Me RN trying to decipher this bespoke collection of Terraform modules held together with Bash scripts and undocumented AWS tag usage

Wish me luck, I'll be spending a good portion of the day with Terraform. Hello, it's been a while. .

Confirmed, we broke ground this morning. Our GC sent over some photos of them starting to grade the home site. Thrilled that we've taken the first step!.

Exciting news: looks like we will break ground for the new house on our property tomorrow! (It has taken a lot longer than I expected to finally get to this point.).

I published the latest Technology Short Take to my site on Friday, but forgot to post about it! Oops!. Anyway, here it is in case you're looking for some light reading!.

I'm pretty happy with Sublime Text as my editor, but I suffer from a bad case of tool curiosity. What are folks' thoughts on Zed? (Don't suggest VS Code, I've "been there, done that" and it's just too slow.).

For the first time in quite a few years, I am not submitting an application to the #vExpert program for the coming year. To those who are applying: best of luck to you!.

RT @ucs_dave: Hotel decorators - stop picking lamps that hide the switch in weird locations. Sincerely,.Everyone.

Using #Pulumi with the S3 state backend? Make sure your PULUMI_BACKEND_URL is configured correctly to support deploying resources into other #AWS regions than where your state bucket lives! More details are found in this new blog post on my site.

I still firmly insist that readability---in balance with DRY principles---must be a factor when writing & maintaining #IaC artifacts. This opinion was reinforced today in trying to decipher someone's very well-engineered but inscrutable #Terraform setup.

This year, take some time to be thankful for the people in your life—they may not be there next year.

A follow-up email was apparently sent out today regarding the VCDX program. The previous email was "sent in error", and the VCDX program continues "as usual.".

[New post] Technology Short Take 184, with a collection of links for your holiday tech reading pleasure!

I guess that’s that—Broadcom is discontinuing the VCDX program.

Headed to Durango, CO today. Taking some of the grandkids on the “Polar Express” train tonight; should be great fun.

What is the point of @SlackHQ providing preferences/settings for what's shown in the sidebar if they're just going to come along and show/enable things anyway?.