https://dale.engineer Last 10 notes on 🪴 Dale Nash Quartz -- quartz.jzhao.xyz https://dale.engineer/Projects/status-page https://dale.engineer/Projects/status-page My First Attempt at Building with AI Agents Atlassian Statuspage costs too much for what I actually need. I’ve explored alternatives like Instatus, but they came packed with features I’d never use… automatic monitoring integrations, complex workflows, and enterprise bells and whistles. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:24 GMT https://dale.engineer/Quartz/customisations https://dale.engineer/Quartz/customisations I haven’t made any customisations yet. Maybe soon!. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:24 GMT https://dale.engineer/Thoughts/crowdstrike-outage https://dale.engineer/Thoughts/crowdstrike-outage Today, the world woke up to find that it’s computing power was largely broken. Airports, ATMs, banks, warehouses, healthcare providers, 911 dispatchers, retailers, and many more industries were taken offline by a defective patch deployed by Crowdstrike to its customers overnight. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:24 GMT https://dale.engineer/Thoughts/olympics https://dale.engineer/Thoughts/olympics Yesterday, I was off sick from work. Among napping and shielding my eyes from light sensitivity, I’ve been snatching glimpses of the BBC Olympics coverage where I can. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:24 GMT https://dale.engineer/ https://dale.engineer/ Hi! I’m Dale, a DevOps Engineer based in Plymouth, United Kingdom. In a previous life I was a web developer, and before that a software tester. I’m currently working somewhere cool, an AI startup, using AWS & GCP. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:24 GMT https://dale.engineer/jokes https://dale.engineer/jokes Whoever invented knock-knock jokes should get a Nobel prize. I tested a frog’s DNA yesterday. He was part Irish, part British, and a tad Pole. Got home from work the other day and my kids had been on eBay all day. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:24 GMT