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May 2025

19 notes published in May 2025.

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Cloud engineering · 31 May 2025

A small lesson about keeping cloud diagrams boring

A short field note on the value of boring cloud diagrams, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Community notes · 30 May 2025

What changed my mind about helping without making people feel small

A short field note on helping people learn, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Personal discipline · 29 May 2025

What changed my mind about keeping a routine without making it dramatic

A short field note on keeping routines, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Career craft · 28 May 2025

What changed my mind about becoming dependable one small habit at a time

A short field note on becoming dependable, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Delivery notes · 27 May 2025

Learning to notice making a runbook useful when someone is tired

A short field note on useful runbooks, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Security practice · 26 May 2025

Learning to notice checking public exposure

A short field note on public exposure checks, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Cloud engineering · 25 May 2025

Learning to notice resource groups telling a story

A short field note on what resource groups reveal, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Community notes · 24 May 2025

A field note on why examples beat big definitions

A short field note on examples beat definitions, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Personal discipline · 23 May 2025

A field note on what a hilly run teaches me about patience

A short field note on hills and patience, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Career craft · 22 May 2025

A field note on learning in public without pretending to know everything

A short field note on learning in public honestly, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Delivery notes · 21 May 2025

Why I kept thinking about building defaults teams can trust

A short field note on good defaults in platform work, written as part of an older learning archive.

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Career craft · 20 May 2025

How I thought about career progress then

An older reflection on skill, evidence and growing without pretending to be finished.

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Delivery notes · 19 May 2025

Why backups need more than a green tick

A field note on checking recovery, not just backup configuration.

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Community notes · 18 May 2025

Learning to explain technical work simply

A note on why clear explanations matter in cloud, security and team work.

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Security practice · 17 May 2025

What security taught me about assumptions

A short note on why cloud security work starts by checking what people think is already true.

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Career craft · 16 May 2025

The kind of engineer I wanted to become

A reflective note on becoming dependable, clear and useful in technical work.

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Career craft · 15 May 2025

Why I started writing cloud notes

A personal note on keeping simple technical notes while learning and working.

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Cloud engineering · 14 May 2025

Azure notes from a year of small checks

A practical reflection on the small Azure checks that often matter more than they first appear.

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Cloud engineering · 13 May 2025

What I was learning about cloud ownership

An older field note on why every cloud resource needs someone who understands why it exists.

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