I was on a SIG contributor experience call for the APEC region, like I usually am every time it happens. Attendance was low that day so instead of sticking to the usual agenda, a few of us just started talking about random things related to upstream work. Somewhere in that loose conversation, we landed on a phrase: “vanilla flavour.” Just to be clear, we were not talking about ice cream. We were talking about “vanilla flavour of Kubernetes.” ...
I started playing badminton again about 6 months ago. Before that, I hadn’t touched a racket in 6 years (well, “hadn’t touched” would be an exaggeration but you know what I intend to say). That was a long time and if you ask me, long enough that when people asked if I played any sport, badminton wasn’t even the answer I gave anymore. There was a knee injury somewhere in that gap, I am not going to get into the details of it here, it’s not really the point of this post but it’s the reason for the gap and it’s part of why picking it up again wasn’t as simple as just showing up one day and playing. ...