Microsoft's New Outlook Took Two Years to Get Colour Categories Back
A small missing calendar rule in new Outlook shows the hidden cost of migrating users before the new client can carry their workflows.
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Writing about AWS, infrastructure, Linux, Kubernetes, and the work of getting sharper over time.
The Ladder Didn't Break When AI Arrived
AI is eating some junior work, but the route into architecture had already been narrowed by cloud, specialisation, and the loss of accidental breadth.
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AWS Summit London 2026 — Post-Summit
The AI Builders Breakfast ended up being the most useful part of the day, and it sharpened the same question I arrived with: where the application layer fits in the AWS Summit conversation.
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AWS Summit London 2026 — Pre-Summit
I've never been to an AWS Summit before. On Wednesday I'm heading to ExCeL London, and I've already had to make some hard choices about how the day runs.
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Why I Couldn't Containerise My Home Server
A 2013-era i5 meets Docker, WSL, and the reality that hardware ceilings only show up when you try something new.
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Watching AI Learn to Play Red Light, Green Light
Trying AI Warehouse's Red Light, Green Light simulator and watching reinforcement learning agents shift from chaos to strategy.
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Pilot to Production: The Gap Nobody Plans For
Pilots get support, rollouts get a prayer. Why OS migrations and AI tool rollouts fail in the same human ways.
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AI for AWS Certs
I built two custom GPTs to help study for the AWS AI Practitioner exam. The note-creation one ate more time than it saved. The coaching one was worth keeping.
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The Architecture Unbuilt
There are a lot of ways to build a personal site. I went with the simplest one. Here's what I considered, what I'm planning to build later, and some stuff about AI agents that I didn't expect to care about.
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Building This Site
How I built kashifnazir.com in two weeks using Hugo, two AI agents, and zero web development experience.
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