Monthly Summary: October 2019

Piotr Gaczkowski
Nov 1 · 2 min read
A chipmunk, Kreuzberg, Wojtek the Bear, castles, cathedrals, and a beach

Personal Highlights

  • Helped to promote a local Hacktoberfest event
  • Opened the Bit Better Book Club Forum
  • Taught a course on Docker and Kubernetes
  • Visited Truffle Pig, a speakeasy cocktail bar in Berlin
  • Submitted a draft of another chapter of my book
  • Had a talk with my editor at Pluralsight
  • Visited a Festival of Lights in Berlin
  • Visited Velvet, a cocktail bar in Berlin which changes menu each week
  • Got a proposition to edit a newsletter on LinkedIn
  • Tried currywurst with champagne under the Brandenburg Gate
  • Recorded a production sample for the course and sent it to the editor
  • Gave a talk at DevOpsDays Edinburgh
  • Met a lot of interesting people at DevOpsDays Edinburgh
  • Tried the World Famous Deep Fried Mars Bar
  • Went on a week-long vacation
  • Fed the chipmunks living in a wall
  • Got the proposition to give a talk at the Open Source Summit
  • Ordered room service with flowers
  • Went whale watching and recorded some dolphins
  • Bathed in a foam-filled hot tub during a (very mild) storm
  • Gave a talk at the Open Source Summit
  • Learned a lot about preparing and recording video courses

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Creator. Efficiency Hacker. Human Jukebox. Loves convenient tools and sharing knowledge. Resides at https://doomhammer.info/

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