google
Recently, I had a hell of a time figuring out how to handle authentication for running Terraform against Google Cloud. Most of Google’s documentation is way more complicated and uses a lot more jargon than the corresponding AWS documentation. Additionally, most of the existing blog posts I could find by other users talked about creating a service account and then downloading its key, and Google recommends against that for security reasons.
(Technically, this is my second contribution, the first being to the Worldforge project. But since Google paid me to contribute to it, in my head it doesn’t count.)
I recently discovered that Calibre supports fetching news from different news sources and converting the fetched news to mobi/epub. In addition to this, one can schedule this to happen, say, everyday at 6 am, and also configure Calibre to transfer freshly-downloaded items to your kindle via Amazon’s Whispernet.
I’ve been having trouble with Google Search results being too smart for their own good for a long time now. I don’t know how recently this changed, but I started noticing that instead of showing me results based on exactly what I entered, Google had started showing results that had synonyms of the words I entered. Being a programmer who uses search mainly for looking up solutions to issues I’m facing with whatever I’m working on at the moment, I really didn’t (and don’t) appreciate Google showing me results for “apt-get upgrade” when I’ve searched for “apt-get update” just because update and upgrade have similar meanings (a stupid example, but the best I could come up with on the spur of the moment.