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  "description": "Week 20 summary - an event-full weekend.",
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    "We test drove four small/mid-size EV SUVs.We spent a day test driving four electric vehicles - the GAC Aion V, BYD Atto 3, Geely EX5, and MG S5. Here are my thoughts on each, and which one we ultimately chose.Sathyajith BhatSathyajith Bhat",
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  "textContent": "### What's been happening\n\nIt's been a busy week. As usual, the week started with my swimming class on Monday. I've been getting better at swimming but still finding it hard to have a consistent swim. I can start fine, but after a couple of strokes I'm out tired, I stop kicking and then that's that. On the bright side, I managed to float on my back pretty well - so happy about that progress. On the flip side, after I returned home, my Apple Watch started acting up. It was detecting that the crown was fully pressed in all the time, invoking Siri or taking screenshots of the watch, depending on what I was trying to do. After a few restarts did not help, I let it sit aside and drain the battery completely. After it charged up, I turned it on and the behaviour continued. A quick search indicated this is pretty common if there's some debris in the crown, with most people saying a repair is the way to go. I scheduled a repair with Apple Sydney. Later on at night, I was about to pack away the Watch into my bad and I saw that it was working like nothing happened before.. 😒anyway the Watch needed a battery replacement so I decided to keep the appointment and thus I've been watch-free the past week.\n\nIt was also AWS Summit Week time in Sydney. I didn't go to the main Summit event, I did get an invite to a private AWS Community Leaders meet with Dr Werner Vogels being the guest. With Werner at the event, I wasn't going to miss it, and it was good to meet the various other AWS Heroes and User Group leaders.\n\nThis meet meant that I missed my Tuesday PT session. I did go to Wednesday where we had a new metcon programmed by Daniel, our instructor. The metcon was 3 sets of\n\n  * 20 reps of kettlebell swings\n  * 10 reps of jump onto plates\n  * 10 reps of dumbbell push press.\n\n\n\nThe goal was to finish these 3 sets of these without any breaks but the push press got to me and I had to stop for a bit to get some breath in.\n\nThe rest of the week went by pretty ok. On the work front, we finally managed to tear down all the Windows nodes that were serving as the Tableau Bridge and it's now 100% Linux containers running on Kubernetes. It's also one of my first (and major) projects which involved migrating an existing service across different hosting styles and Operating Systems, adding Kubernetes specific features, custom exporters for metrics and dashboards entirely driven by AI (Claude Code with Opus). I think that deserves a separate post on it its own, someday when I get some time, I'll publish it - if it doesn't get outdated by the current pace of coding agents. I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it came to, and also annoyed by how many papercuts I discovered which required lot of steering.\n\nI also finished writing my post on our EV test drive from last week and what we bought as our new car - check it out below.\n\nWe test drove four small/mid-size EV SUVs.We spent a day test driving four electric vehicles - the GAC Aion V, BYD Atto 3, Geely EX5, and MG S5. Here are my thoughts on each, and which one we ultimately chose.Sathyajith BhatSathyajith Bhat\n\n* * *\n\nMy colleague told me that Sydney Metro had an open community day today where you could walk into the service tunnels. It wasn't opportunity to be missed, so we went over to Rosehill to check it out. It wasn't too long of a walk - about couple of kilometers of walk into the tunnel and back. And there was free gelato too! All in all a good day.\n\nSydney Metro West Tunnel Walk\n\nI also made a short clip from my Insta360 video captures\n\n* * *\n\nI've always been interested in attending a medieval fair, but never had a chance to. A few weeks back, I saw that Blacktown City Medieval Fayre was coming soon and told Jo about it. She reminded me this Sunday morning that the fair was today. The tickets were still on sale, so we bought a couple of tickets and attended the fair.\n\nThe fair was located in Nurragingy Reserve which looks like a really good place to visit. We made a mental note to revisit here after we've got our car. The fair itself was pretty interesting. There were a lot of people, many of them in costumes. I believe there was a best dressed costume contest as well. There were a few different acts going on. The one that caught our eye was jousting - so yes there was actual jousting between a group of four knights or dames. There was also a re-enactment of the Vikings versus the Saxons fight so that was pretty interesting. All the play acting, their weapons were fairly real and you could see some of the shields had actually broken off. I'm sure there were prop shields. We also had some food and we came back signing off for a really good Sunday afternoon.\n\nAs with the Tunnel Walk, I collected a few clips on my Insta 360 and made a small video out of it\n\n### What I read\n\nFor reasons.. unknown, I was suddenly reminded of Questionable Content and started reading it from the first comic.. which was going well till the website got hacked and all the comics were deleted :/ The author mentions he's got backups and is working on restoring it. If you have recommendations for web comics, let me know.\n\n### Music of the Week\n\nThe Foo Fighters do a NPR Tiny Desk concert. Pretty awesome\n\n### Thanks for reading.\n\nThanks for reading and have a great week ahead.",
  "title": "Weekly Notes 20/2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-17T10:06:07.873Z"
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