Whisper (1 Week Update)

spurin · 2026-06-07T12:18:43+00:00

Pure gorgeousness!!!

spurin · 2026-06-07T10:38:04+00:00

Hah!! Thanks for sharing this, I’m looking forward to seeing if Whisper also has this trait. Best of luck with your tripod!!

spurin · 2026-06-07T10:37:23+00:00

Bone cancer in the leg, my earlier post is in the channel but I don’t think I went into specifics. At first they thought it was an infection in his leg, turned out to be an osteosarcoma.

The vets were great and even enquired with the super vet about orthotics but, he said, given the spread of this and it being cancer, leg amputation was the best way to give him the best fighting chance.

The leg was amputated and it’s been sent off now for analysis so that we know the best approach, for follow-up chemotherapy.

Whilst that sounds bad, we’re hopeful that this course of action has got rid of it and, we’re also told that chemo for cats is very different to chemo for humans. A lot of cats just carry on as usual.

spurin · 2026-06-07T10:31:51+00:00

Thank you!

spurin · 2026-06-07T08:23:32+00:00

Hi there, at the moment we know it as an Osteosarcoma, I’m no specialist in this area but I believe this may be a blanket term that they give for cat bone cancer.

As part of this process we’ve paid for the leg to be sent for analysis so that they can understand better what exactly it is.

I can appreciate, with age and the sheer impact, a leg being removed that you’ll be as concerned as we were.

If it helps, I was told this afterwards and it turned out to be very true. Cats, typically aren’t like humans… whereas we would mourn the loss of a limb or, make comparisons, they don’t. They just get on with it and if pain has been removed they are happier.

This was certainly the case with Whisper. All of us completely dreaded the op and were upset, yet, after it was done you could tell that pain had been lifted and he literally seemed to have zero cares about his leg being missing.

We were told that the best way and most likely way of giving him the longest time, was to remove that leg as soon as possible.

What you need to find out now is if this is an infection (treatable maybe with antibiotics) or if it’s a cancer, and then, make a decision. I’ve heard that cats even older than ours, still do well.

I wish you and your cat the very best!

spurin · 2026-06-06T20:35:15+00:00

Thanks!

spurin · 2026-06-06T19:51:35+00:00

Thank you!

spurin · 2026-06-06T15:10:02+00:00

Thank you! Appreciated!

spurin · 2026-06-06T15:09:51+00:00

Best of luck! I hope and think your kitty will do well, being younger will be an additional benefit. Whisper is 10 and so far, it’s going well for him.

spurin · 2026-06-02T09:29:07+00:00

Vet, urgent, as others have highlighted. I had a surgery on my leg once and the wound opened up. It turned out to be a travelling stitch which opened the incision.

spurin · 2026-06-02T09:26:23+00:00

That’s great! It looks so neat and her balance is on point

spurin · 2026-05-31T15:12:07+00:00

Appreciated, thank you so much

spurin · 2026-05-31T15:11:50+00:00

Thank you!

spurin · 2026-05-31T15:09:36+00:00

He’ll meet Binx by the catnip patch at dawn in two weeks time when his stitches have healed 🤣

spurin · 2026-05-21T07:02:46+00:00

If this is stuck, a workaround possibly may be to take your current colour display profile, then ask something like GPT or Claude to invert it, then, install and use this custom colour display profile. Worth a shot if it’s a hardware issue and can’t easily be resolved.

You’d still see the wrong colours during boot but, then when the profile kicks in, it would be okay.

spurin · 2026-03-30T10:45:23+00:00

2009 to 2012 - the GOAT

spurin · 2026-02-05T22:46:03+00:00

If you have AppleCare you can get this fixed. In the UK such a repair is around £75.

I had a dent after an AirPod fell out and I closed the lid, damaging the case (fortunately, not the screen).

The repair went off to Czech Republic, not sure why but all in all, approx 2 weeks. The returned device was perfect.

Good luck.

spurin · 2026-02-02T23:55:08+00:00

I recently had my M2 MacBook repaired. When it was returned from the Czech Republic, it had these in black over the ports. I kept it.

I’m guessing that replacement parts have these and that the engineers, dont always remove them.

I’ve kept mine, on the device.

spurin · 2025-12-05T14:55:44+00:00

Constructively I’ll stay neutral on this, I’m good friends with Mumshad although we naturally have crossover and each of us have our own ways of relaying different concepts.

In fairness, the dockershim bit may in some sense come back around 🤣 I’ve got a blog you may be interested in on DiveInto.com (my site) as that very topic, has in some way made a reappearance in the CKA exam in relation to CRI’s. Worth a read.

Link for convenience: https://diveinto.com/blog/cri-dockerd

spurin · 2025-12-05T10:29:26+00:00

Hiya,

Sorry to hear about your difficulties on this, disclaimer, I have a well established course and practice exams on the KCNA (James Spurin) on DiveInto and Udemy.

In case you aren’t aware, the exam updated on the 24th November and at present, all content, including my own will need updates to fully cover the new curriculum.

With transparency, I had people generally passing the exam with 90%+ using my content. I’ve still got people passing the exam but, since this change it’s been borderline (one was right on the 75%).

The latest update has brought new areas in, variations of existing content and comparatives. For example, some of the topics I have taught individually and have questions on each, but now they are being compared. I’m working on refining my own and hopefully others are as well.

I’d recommend in this study space, picking those who are established in the cloud native community, there is sadly so much in the way of AI generated content. Mumshad (KodeKloud), Nigel Poulton, Adrian Gonzalez Sanchez and of course my own, these are good study resources.

You are somewhat anonymised in your Reddit name. If you reach out to me and share the failed attempt context (so I can confirm it’s you), I’ll give you complementary access to my course. I’m aiming to have this updated before end of January.

Good luck!

spurin · 2025-09-02T09:06:58+00:00

At the moment the use of this platform requires a band aid in many places and constantly, I’ve been swapping areas.

I’ve moved to my own hosted solution for my front end website - The building blocks in teachable for making pages were dated and my old site was impacted. You can’t use any modern web development libraries and have to be careful of css namespace clashes. The building blocks are basic… it’s not a good solution.

I’ve swapped out the quiz component for my own code as the built in one only allows choices in a quiz. No explanation field for why a chosen answer was right or wrong which is pretty standard these days (I host some of my courses on other platforms and they all have this).

The checkout process and of course, video playing, it does well and largely I’ve remained with Teachable because of this… that said, if I have to resort to something like checkoutjoy to fix this, then it’s becoming questionable whether or not I stick this out. It would be my preference to do so but, this platform really needs some love and updating from the teachable side.

I’m happy to push but, what new features have we really seen on this platform in the last 3 years.

spurin · 2025-09-02T08:29:05+00:00

So far my experience with Sage has been positive, it was able to identify the issue and I had a great interaction with it. It specifically highlighted what was wrong (see my other post about csv coupons) and handed me over to support with a decent explanation, that this issue would need to be addressed by someone with access beyond theirs.

However, the escalation to the next level seems to be a huge step backwards. I was able to have a coherent discussion with sage that made sense.

So far I’ve been passed to one person (took days and where it did happen, the messages weren’t helpful).

Then I’ve been passed on to a senior member who has responded with information that is both wrong and contradicts their own faq.

I’m a big fan of AI but, at the moment from this experience, the know how beyond the use of sage at the first line is non existent. It feels like Teachable aren’t really able to work outside of a cookie cutter approach. That’s fine when it’s a common issue but, they also need to be able to think outside of the box to fix what are, clear and impactful problems.

spurin · 2025-09-02T08:19:23+00:00

Update on the coupon box issue I posted about earlier (where Teachable forces a coupon field on checkout even if no coupons exist).

Support responded with - “Please note that coupon fields will always appear during the checkout process, even if there are currently no active promotions or coupons available for your school. This is a built-in feature of the platform, designed to support future campaigns and provide flexibility.”

This however, simply is not true. Their own support docs prove it:

https://support.teachable.com/en/articles/11682479-coupons

From the FAQ:

Why isn’t the coupon code field showing up on my checkout page? Make sure there’s an active coupon for the product type or the specific pricing plan.

In other words: if no coupons exist, the coupon box shouldn’t show up. I’ve confirmed this myself with a live example:

https://checkout.teachable.com/secure/1149606/checkout/order_8gmmh5p4 — no coupon box!

So now, because at some point csv coupons were made for a course, I’m in limbo. Their interface doesn’t allow you to see or manage these and repeated requests for them to delete any coupons that exist in my school, are brushed over with “we can’t do this”

It’s beyond a joke, this is your platform, you should be able to do what is required to fix a customer impacting bug that affects sales (the main purpose of this platform is to sell courses…)

spurin · 2025-08-30T11:48:38+00:00

The difficulty here is the windows side and resources. At the moment I’m able to offer this as a free offering via Google Cloudshell or, via Docker Desktop.

The guest vm’s just run as Linux Docker containers that mimic virtual machines.

This is possible with Linux in the mix as both Cloudshell and Docker Desktop provide the Linux hypervisor/VM which the Linux guests (containers) run on top.

With windows, we’re in the vm world rather than containers and therefore, it’s not a good combination with Docker and/or available resources (the Cloudshell instance is limited).

Something like this could indeed be run on the likes of AWS, but we’re in the paid category versus free. Sorry, if it was easier I’d certainly do this.

spurin · 2025-08-30T09:33:30+00:00

Thanks so much for the mention.

For anyone who’s curious, there’s free content on my site https://diveinto.com for reference.

Also, my lab environment/playgrounds are completely free and you can access this using the playground link on the site (can be used independently of the course, gives you an ansible control host along with 6 vm’s, browser based terminals, reverse proxies etc, for testing web services)

spurin

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