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My Mac’s battery🔋 on Google Cloud Monitoring — send SMS if low 🪫

📅 Nov 9, 2022 · ☕ 8 min read

This article shows how you can easily inject a generic key/value into Google Cloud Monitoring and set up alerts on it. I use it to alert on disk space, and now also low battery!

This morning I was in London, and I forgot my charger at home. With plenty of time but 🪫 little battery, I thought: hey! I need to have a way to predict when my battery is low! And I need to do it in a totally overkill way!

Setting a ⬣ Cloud Build trigger with 🧹 Pulumi in 🐍 Python

📅 Sep 22, 2022 · ☕ 2 min read

The Original article on Medium: https://medium.com/google-cloud/setting-cloudbuild-with-pulumi-in-python-330e8b54b2cf watch video A couple of weeks ago, I fell in love with Pulumi. it has everything I wanted from Terraform: easy to set up, easy config management, a nice UI for free, and most importantly… language Support! Pulumi is the best invention after Buffalo Pizza and has only a problem.. no Ruby support :/ Anyway, I’m so in love with ⬣ GCP (which happens to pay my salary, I got to admit), Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and in general CI/CD pipelines on Google Cloud that I wanted to give it a try.

Alessandro learns a few languages

📅 Apr 14, 2022 · ☕ 4 min read

Alessandro is learning his fourth language this year! Reading and pronouncing all those sounds, dictongues , and all those vowels together can be off putting. Hence, I’ve asked Gemini to create a reading help, by language. ## Gemini answer Okay, this is a great way to help your son! Learning

Spaghetti Bolognese don't exist!

📅 Dec 16, 2019 · ☕ 3 min read · 🇮🇹 Riccardo

Spaghetti bolognese: Everyone knows them… except Italians. Right, read it again if you don’t believe me… in Italy we don’t prepare that kind of pasta. What the hell, you may be wondering… Italy is famous for spaghetti and bolognese sauce (that we call “ragout alla bolognese” or simply ragü, but