Zak Abdel-Illah
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Zak Abdel-Illah
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🕵️‍♂️ | Certified AWS Solutions Architect
🗣️ | Polyglot [ 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇸; Learning: 🇩🇪🇲🇦 ]
🇲🇦 | Half Moroccan in London
⚾️ | Yankees & NBA Fan
📸 | Canon T3i; GoPro HERO 10
Nicely done, is this with Cycles or Eevee? Directly from Blender or from a scene description file? (Inner VFX Pipeline nerd coming out 🤓)
February 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Aha! Sounds like my time roaming the streets of Vancouver and Toronto

It’s at the Lowry so quite some distance away
February 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
😂 im scared now, but also intrigued what the mystery of Piccadilly gardens is
February 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I went with Vault (using sidecars) as my first option, but I’m still in the “finding the best one for me” phase
February 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
😂 looks like you’re having a whale of a time over there, these articles are getting wilder and wilder
January 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I’ve heard a lot about OVHCloud and used Exoscale. The EU is behind in offering managed services & serverless architectures, but kind of makes up for it offering managed Kubernetes.

Luckily the EU is actively funding competition from European soil so we should see some companies prosper soon 🤞
January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I do something similar but with Yabai, to organize my window layout with Sublime + iTerm, launch apps on specific screens etc.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
GitHub - koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - koekeishiya/yabai
github.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Very interesting, thanks for the explanations! I just went in researching the different bands and their intentions.

Good thing there’s a license behind transmitting as that sounds like a rabbit hole for me 😅
January 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I have many questions (I’m a curious boy)

Did you notice it while casually browsing frequencies?
Is your receiver far from these countries that these frequencies seem odd?

I was fascinated by how world-war time communication was achieved with a form of encryption so this tickles my interest 😬
January 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Aha, of course! Homemade recipes trumps all.
January 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My next one is Advanced Networking

I use good ol' Pluralsight for foundations, then make errors on my projects. Debugging why something isn't working is my best approach 😅

I've worked 8 years in VFX as a Python Dev & I.T. so I had already been exposed to a range of applications for cloud & tooling
January 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Best of luck!
What’s the most important “sugar-less” thing you’ll think you’ll miss?

I have quite a few “P” projects of my own I’d like to take off the ground, keep going on my certification journey and find my next big city in Europe 🇪🇺
January 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
😂 Hopefully that'll also be me in a few months time. Good luck! :)
December 24, 2024 at 12:54 AM
I used sipgate when I was based in the UK (~5 years ago). I can still see their PAYG rates so hopefully it’s still a thing?

I liked them because they didn’t charge extra for using a SIP client so I could integrate it into Asterisk & Android
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Everyone's moving back to this side of the pond 🇪🇺 😎

It's sad to see the downfall of the VFX industry out there, but it's time to move on 😬
December 11, 2024 at 5:31 PM
It's like I've travelled back to Montréal! Nice to see you lurking in the skies sir 😉
December 11, 2024 at 5:07 PM