Monthly Summary: October 2019
Nov 1 · 2 min read

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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Books in Blinks
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Articles
Best Music Albums
- Gloryhammer — Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex (Deluxe Version)
- Laibach — The Sound of Music
- Welle:Erdball — Chaos Total
Best Music Tracks
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The theme for the upcoming month
Relative stabilization.
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