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This is the timeline of my journey towards obtaining Swiss citizenship. I will update this document as I progress through the various phases of the application process. The process is different per Kanton, and changed a couple of years ago, so I document it here so people can see what the normal timeline is line. I'm a UK citizen right now, but the process is relatively similar for other nationalities, with some differences in the required documents for the Zivilstandsregister (Civil Registry). The official process and website is here for Zurich: Ordentliche Einbürgerung.

My Timeline So Far ​

| Phase | German name of Phrase | Date / Period | Notes | |

Creating Worklog Assistant - the background of creating a new tool as a replacement for an existing but now unavailable tool.

We have an interesting challenge in some of our microservices - we run lots and lots of microservices, all using a relatively small amount of memory, but the usage patterns may be unusual. All these microservices talk MassTransit - some also have external triggers, API endpoints or scheduled jobs.

For the last few years at my workplace we've been using Kerberos authentication to connect to the on-prem SQL Server databases. On Windows this just worked like magic, as the services ran as a Windows domain user and so could connect to the database without any additional configuration. However, when moving to Kubernetes and Linux systems, this didn't work out of the box.

If you're an Init7 TV customer and you want to use the Unify Dream Machine as your IPTV receiver, I figured it out for you! Here's a step-by-step guide to help you get started.

How to setup a github build action that uses the dockerless build in .Net 7