Zak Abdel-Illah
@zai.dev
π΅οΈββοΈ | Certified AWS Solutions Architect
π£οΈ | Polyglot [ π¬π§π«π·πͺπΈ; Learning: π©πͺπ²π¦ ]
π²π¦ | Half Moroccan in London
βΎοΈ | Yankees & NBA Fan
πΈ | Canon T3i; GoPro HERO 10
π£οΈ | Polyglot [ π¬π§π«π·πͺπΈ; Learning: π©πͺπ²π¦ ]
π²π¦ | Half Moroccan in London
βΎοΈ | Yankees & NBA Fan
πΈ | Canon T3i; GoPro HERO 10
Here we go again! This time itβs the #AWSSummit in London. A bit of coffee through the system is definitely needed this morning π
April 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Here we go again! This time itβs the #AWSSummit in London. A bit of coffee through the system is definitely needed this morning π
Even though I left the VFX industry over a year ago, this story over the weekend still hits home. MPC gave me the opportunity to lead one of the best teams I could have asked for on several feature films.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
BREAKING: We're beginning live coverage of this major story. Technicolor, owner MPC, Mikros Animation, and The Mill, is on the verge of total collapse. Over 10,000 animation and VFX workers in the US, Canada, UK and India could become unemployed this week.
Live Updates: VFX Industry On Edge As Technicolor, Owner Of Mikros Animation, MPC, And The Mill, On Verge Of Total Collapse
Over 10,000 vfx and animation workers around the globe could become unemployed as early as this week.
www.cartoonbrew.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Even though I left the VFX industry over a year ago, this story over the weekend still hits home. MPC gave me the opportunity to lead one of the best teams I could have asked for on several feature films.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
Good luck to everyone affected today.
Nicely done, is this with Cycles or Eevee? Directly from Blender or from a scene description file? (Inner VFX Pipeline nerd coming out π€)
February 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Nicely done, is this with Cycles or Eevee? Directly from Blender or from a scene description file? (Inner VFX Pipeline nerd coming out π€)
Aha! Sounds like my time roaming the streets of Vancouver and Toronto
Itβs at the Lowry so quite some distance away
Itβs at the Lowry so quite some distance away
February 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Aha! Sounds like my time roaming the streets of Vancouver and Toronto
Itβs at the Lowry so quite some distance away
Itβs at the Lowry so quite some distance away
π im scared now, but also intrigued what the mystery of Piccadilly gardens is
February 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
π im scared now, but also intrigued what the mystery of Piccadilly gardens is
Time to start my overnight journey up to Manchester for #ServerlessDays Iβm looking forward to meet fellow peers in the field and to learn!
February 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Time to start my overnight journey up to Manchester for #ServerlessDays Iβm looking forward to meet fellow peers in the field and to learn!
I went with Vault (using sidecars) as my first option, but Iβm still in the βfinding the best one for meβ phase
February 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I went with Vault (using sidecars) as my first option, but Iβm still in the βfinding the best one for meβ phase
A brutal but pretty accurate assessment of the state of R&D / Tech industry within the EU, and quite an ambitious plan to tackle it.
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
We want technologies and products to be created, manufactured and marketed in Europe.
And we must act now.
Our new Competitiveness Compass is the plan for Europeβs productivity and growth. βπ§΅
#madeinEurope
And we must act now.
Our new Competitiveness Compass is the plan for Europeβs productivity and growth. βπ§΅
#madeinEurope
January 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A brutal but pretty accurate assessment of the state of R&D / Tech industry within the EU, and quite an ambitious plan to tackle it.
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
Now that I'm back in this side of the world, I'm excited to see all the publications for innovation, tech sovereignty & start-up strategies planned by the years' end
π looks like youβre having a whale of a time over there, these articles are getting wilder and wilder
January 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
π looks like youβre having a whale of a time over there, these articles are getting wilder and wilder
Iβve 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 π€
Luckily the EU is actively funding competition from European soil so we should see some companies prosper soon π€
January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Iβve 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 π€
Luckily the EU is actively funding competition from European soil so we should see some companies prosper soon π€
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
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
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
https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
#OpenWRT unlocks a lot of potential from consumer grade routers.
I took some time to extend my personal network into #AWS through #IPSec and #BGP, allowing me to stream gaming workloads and take advantage of high-resource databases securely.
I took some time to extend my personal network into #AWS through #IPSec and #BGP, allowing me to stream gaming workloads and take advantage of high-resource databases securely.
Deploying AWS Site-to-Site on OpenWRT
I connected OpenWRT to AWS using IPSec, BGP, Ansible and Terraform.
zai.dev
January 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Very interesting, thanks for the explanations! I just went in researching the different bands and their intentions.
Good thing thereβs a license behind transmitting as that sounds like a rabbit hole for me π
Good thing thereβs a license behind transmitting as that sounds like a rabbit hole for me π
January 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Very interesting, thanks for the explanations! I just went in researching the different bands and their intentions.
Good thing thereβs a license behind transmitting as that sounds like a rabbit hole for me π
Good thing thereβs a license behind transmitting as that sounds like a rabbit hole for me π
I have many questions (Iβm 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 π¬
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 π¬
January 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have many questions (Iβm 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 π¬
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 π¬
Aha, of course! Homemade recipes trumps all.
January 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Aha, of course! Homemade recipes trumps all.
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 π
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
I use good ol' Pluralsight for foundations, then make errors on my projects. Debugging why something isn't working is my best approach π
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
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 π
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
I use good ol' Pluralsight for foundations, then make errors on my projects. Debugging why something isn't working is my best approach π
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
Best of luck!
Whatβs the most important βsugar-lessβ thing youβll think youβll miss?
I have quite a few βPβ projects of my own Iβd like to take off the ground, keep going on my certification journey and find my next big city in Europe πͺπΊ
Whatβs the most important βsugar-lessβ thing youβll think youβll miss?
I have quite a few βPβ projects of my own Iβd like to take off the ground, keep going on my certification journey and find my next big city in Europe πͺπΊ
January 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Best of luck!
Whatβs the most important βsugar-lessβ thing youβll think youβll miss?
I have quite a few βPβ projects of my own Iβd like to take off the ground, keep going on my certification journey and find my next big city in Europe πͺπΊ
Whatβs the most important βsugar-lessβ thing youβll think youβll miss?
I have quite a few βPβ projects of my own Iβd like to take off the ground, keep going on my certification journey and find my next big city in Europe πͺπΊ
Last summer, I developed a #Prometheus exporter to get a grasp on #Golang development and for centralizing metrics from various cloud providers within a single dashboard. Hopefully I get round to implementing a response cache π¬
Exoscale Exporter for Prometheus
I'd built a Prometheus exporter for Exoscale, allowing me to visualize cloud spending and resource usage from a central location... Read more
zai.dev
December 30, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Last summer, I developed a #Prometheus exporter to get a grasp on #Golang development and for centralizing metrics from various cloud providers within a single dashboard. Hopefully I get round to implementing a response cache π¬
π Hopefully that'll also be me in a few months time. Good luck! :)
December 24, 2024 at 12:54 AM
π Hopefully that'll also be me in a few months time. Good luck! :)
I used sipgate when I was based in the UK (~5 years ago). I can still see their PAYG rates so hopefully itβs still a thing?
I liked them because they didnβt charge extra for using a SIP client so I could integrate it into Asterisk & Android
I liked them because they didnβt charge extra for using a SIP client so I could integrate it into Asterisk & Android
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
I used sipgate when I was based in the UK (~5 years ago). I can still see their PAYG rates so hopefully itβs still a thing?
I liked them because they didnβt charge extra for using a SIP client so I could integrate it into Asterisk & Android
I liked them because they didnβt charge extra for using a SIP client so I could integrate it into Asterisk & Android
Everyone's moving back to this side of the pond πͺπΊ π
It's sad to see the downfall of the VFX industry out there, but it's time to move on π¬
It's sad to see the downfall of the VFX industry out there, but it's time to move on π¬
December 11, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Everyone's moving back to this side of the pond πͺπΊ π
It's sad to see the downfall of the VFX industry out there, but it's time to move on π¬
It's sad to see the downfall of the VFX industry out there, but it's time to move on π¬
It's like I've travelled back to MontrΓ©al! Nice to see you lurking in the skies sir π
December 11, 2024 at 5:07 PM
It's like I've travelled back to MontrΓ©al! Nice to see you lurking in the skies sir π
Get your tickets from December 20th!
I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.
β¬οΈ Check out the trailer β¬οΈ
I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.
β¬οΈ Check out the trailer β¬οΈ
Mufasa: The Lion King | Final Trailer
YouTube video by Disney
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Get your tickets from December 20th!
I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.
β¬οΈ Check out the trailer β¬οΈ
I had the honour of leading the technical directors on Disney's #Mufasa, tackling challenges across simulations, environments, virtual production, compositing and rendering optimizations through #Houdini, #Katana, #Nuke and #Python.
β¬οΈ Check out the trailer β¬οΈ