Alex Bissessur

AlexB@moris.social

Hi I'm Alex, a Kubernetes-focused gremlin from the tropical island of Mauritius. I do Cloud Native stuff for work, and for my not-yet-overengineered homelab. I'm also an advocate for FOSS over here, and you'll find me active in the local tech communities. Other than that, I like Linux and SBCs, and writing Rust. I just like building things :P Oh and, shitposts inside, follower onlyPlease have something in your account before sending a follow-req, thank you :)

Posts

Post #1313364
@jae eyy, thank you, I&#39;m happy to hear it was somewhat inspirational :D
Post #1313363
I have been home for 4 days, I understand already why so many of those who go abroad for university stay there QwQ
Post #1313362
new headphones, time to replay celeste &gt;:3
Post #1313361
Yet another functional laptop recovered from waste!! It&#39;s a T410, missing its hard disk and with a battery that holds no charge, but it&#39;s still a pretty cool find :3
Post #1313360
oooh i hate the people who come to the IT department for tech support and start talking (loudly) about nonsense like football with my colleagues hate them with a burning passion &gt;:/
Post #1041401
#breakfast #protein #keto #gains #carnivore #highprotein #fitness #egg #lowcarblife #helpme @steph
Post #1041400
watch me &quot;im fine&quot; my way outa this one /ref
Post #1041399
warning to all #eh23 hackers, police presence spotted, beware when hacking bridge or bus panels ^^ /j
Post #1041398
I&#39;m finally ending my trip to Europe in Gatwick. I&#39;ll be boarding in a couple minutes, and will fly 12 hours direct back to Mauritius. It&#39;s been an insane 24+ hours, I&#39;m looking forward to being back in my bed. Not gonna make this an appreciation post (waaay too many people), but thank you to everyone who made this trip as cool as it was; all things considered, I&#39;m actually pretty sad to be leaving.
Post #1041397
come onnnnnn, the conference was two weeks agoooo i want to see my own recording already &gt;:/
Post #1041396
awww man, I just realised I forgot to bring back blue/pink hair dye from Europe.. How can I call myself a Rust dev 😭
Post #1041395
My KubeCon talk is finally up!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgc5fBmlIFg
Post #1041394
I just weighed myself and I&#39;m 43 kilos now?? The fuck do you mean I lost 2 kilos in three weeks??
Post #805864
I&#39;m at KubeCon Day 0 with the project lightning talks and co-hosted events today. This morning I picked up my badge; look ma, im a speaker!!
Post #805863
KubeCon is happening, and, unsurprisingly, I have neither the time nor energy to live-toot. Soooo, have some pictures instead! Day 0, I saw the project lightning talks, as well as the colo track Cloud Sovereignty Day. After that, we had an afterparty at CiliumCon which was a lot of fun with the labs. Yesterday was day 1, and I spent most of my time going between sponsor booths. Did have a good talk about Go vs Rust though!
Post #805862
Advantage of the European cold is that it keeps your beers freezing :P
Post #805861
A little bit later, one could catch me and my friend running to the metro station through the hail and rain and wind... https://moris.social/@AlexB/116296238718642819
Post #805860
Another neat advantage of the European cold is that my phone can actually charge fast. Like what do you meaaaan I can d 0-100 in 30 minutes without turning my phone into the sun. It&#39;s like 3x as long back home :O
Post #805859
European weather can be intriguing - one time it&#39;s sunny (not to be confused with warm) and thirty minutes later, you&#39;re running through hail and wind and rain to get to the metro station. I can say I&#39;ve experienced everything there is to experience with Europe :)
Post #783162
I just gave a talk on the biggest stage of my life, in front of the biggest audience of my life. Words can&#39;t express just how insanely cool this was, I&#39;m incredibly happy and it went so well. I talked about KRaft, my project to make a cloud service provider run out of my homelab, and any infra anywhere in the world.
Post #711374
Oh, is there a problem with Cloudflare again? DDNS might be affected? The horror! oh wait nevermind i don&#39;t use CF anymore 😆
Post #711373
KubeCon trip this Wednesday, and I have questions and complaints already. - It is foolish to take two laptops which both lack USBC charging? I was thinking my SP4 and Thinkpad P51. - I am so sad I don&#39;t have a steam deck or similar to make the 12 hour flight tolerable. At least it&#39;s a night flight :/
Post #711372
I had fun taking lizard pictures in the garden earlier. Though these pictures came at the cost of no less than 10 mosquito bites
Post #711371
Leaving office now, to be gone for 3 weeks. The stress and excitement levels are both really high now &gt;:3
Post #711370
At the airport, discovering brand new ways of being miserable. It&#39;s cold and bright and I&#39;m tired already
Post #711369
Aaalright I&#39;m in London with like 9 hours till my next flight to Amsterdam. I have absolutely nothing to do and I&#39;m cold -_-
Post #711368
i haven&#39;t eaten since yesterday, i have drunk one small water bottle in as long. i had intermittent shallow sleep for 12 hours on the plane. reality is a foreign concept and time doesn&#39;t exist anymore. i am running on one greggs cookie. next flight to amsterdam is soon.
Post #711367
It is 5 pm in Amsterdam. I&#39;m waiting on my baggage - the plane unloading has been delayed. The baggage area is full of british people walking around, looking miffed (myself included tbf). It has been 24 hours of non-stop travelling for me; beds have been reduced to a far away concept.
Post #711366
Image dump from my fuji camera, from Heathrow. 1. Small British Airways A320 2. Plane talking off in background 3. A320&#39;s engine
Post #711364
I&#39;ve been at Rejekts all day today, and I don&#39;t really have conference pictures :P I have spent my day learning a ton about networking and Cilium, chaos engineering, Rust for K8s stuff, and so much stuff about in-depth memory management. Very cool day, I&#39;m very happy with it!