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dustin.nz

Semi competent Principal Engineer based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Formerly a Microsoft SQL Server MVP but still a big fan of Azure. Primarily working with AWS these day.

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Sunday night. Family has been fed. Chores are done. I'm sitting on the back deck of my house listening to Dire Straits in the dark. It's going to get too cold later on but I'll stick it out. I'm in my happy place.

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Latin abbreviations -> 2025 English e.g. -> like i.e. -> you know etc. -> or whatever et al. -> or whoever cf. -> check out viz. -> you know

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Me watching my wife and her best friend entering the craft store, shopping for yarn, getting a trolley instead of a basket...

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a completely typical cat claw trimming event as countless cat owners can attest to

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Literally 3 times this week.

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I hadn’t realised that Leo XIV was even eligible to play for England

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Happy 15th birthday, Lost finale

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Sharing my table on the train tonight with folk from Azure, AWS, and GCP. I've met the three of them individually on past trips but tonight we're all together.

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NEW: Nature's Cathedral tee and I'm actually so stoked, I have a new partnership with an NZ-owned apparel co-op, with fitted/femme tees, sizes thru 5XL! Also, $3 from each of these tees will go to Forest & Bird to support conservation. <3 Pre order here: pepperraccoon.com/products/nat...

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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssss!!!!! Amazing new bandana from @pepperraccoon.com

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Quote post with a really foolish injury. Where to begin? - shot self in hand with nail gun - accidentally made chlorine gas trying to clean swimming pool filter - tripped through plate glass door because I was so excited to go to school - bitten by monkey - etc ...

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Pfft, I've been on the internet long enough to survive all the but the most extreme burns

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Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable. The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found': www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

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Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

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8:30(ish) on Sunday night. Feels like a very good time to call it a week and head for bed. See y'all later.

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I've given it nearly a month, but I'm giving up on my Linux on the garage PC. Too many little things. The final straw was trying to find a Bluetooth adaptor that a> was recognized b> actually worked with all the devices I want Paired but non functional Bluetooth speakers pushed me over the edge.

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It's not every day you get to pop a device's cherry

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New cat trap has been deployed.

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Wife has decided we're in the market for buying her a new laptop. Her old one (4 cores @ 1.30GHz) just doesn't cut it these days.

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