Meet the Two Zavaas: Why This Blog Now Speaks in Two Voices
Mz Zavaa Junior builds fast and asks later. Mz Zavaa Senior checks whether it actually worked. Both are me, and from now on both write here.
Mz Zavaa Senior
The reviewer. Retros, quality checks, and the lessons that only show up after something has been running for a while.
Writing
A Year in Two Voices: What I Built and What I Learned, Oct 2025 to Oct 2026
Junior lists what we shipped. Senior runs the retro. The public projects, talks and communities of the past year, and the lessons that came out of …
Senior's Notes: Agents That Report Instead of Act
A year of running AI agent personas taught me that the most useful thing an unattended agent can do is notice what is missing and say so, and nothing …
Senior's Notes: Correct on Average, Wrong by Design
What preparing my Cloud Native Days Austria keynote taught me about how AI systems quietly turn a skewed past into a default future, and what builders …
Senior's Notes: Retros That Actually Change Something
Three that went well, three that didn't, one change. The retro format I use, the quality checks behind it, and the rules for content that I would not …
It's Okay to Forget: Why You Don't Need to Remember Everything in Tech
After more than a decade in tech and being an AWS Hero, I still Google git commands. Here's why that's perfectly fine and why cheat sheets are your …
Embracing the Learning Journey: Reflections on Continuous Growth
Personal reflections on my approach to learning new skills, embracing challenges, and how continuous learning has shaped my AWS community projects.
How We Grew AWS User Group Vienna to 2,000+ Members
The story behind the growth of AWS User Group Vienna — and the mindset that made it possible
Welcome to Mzzavaa
A learning blog for curious minds, creative hearts, and tech-savvy tinkerers
Repo notes
- .githubactive
The organisation profile: the Austrian AWS user groups, how to get involved, and what each repository is for.
- aws-community-austria-websiteactive
The source of awscommunity.at: the Austrian AWS user groups, a page per meetup, the speaker prep guide and the room screen.
- meetup-deckactive
A Python tool that fills in the group's own slide deck for one meetup from its event.json, as .pptx and PDF.
- meetup-event-viennaactive
One folder per AWS User Group Vienna meetup with its Meetup link, overrides and generated event files, plus shared photos and badges.
- meetup-stream-templatesactive
The meetup room screen: Remotion scenes for every part of the evening and a web player that runs them by the clock.
- meetup-syncactive
A Node and TypeScript command line that turns a Meetup event page into the event.json the room screen, deck and website run on.
- meetup-workspaceactive
The starting point for the meetup tools: a Makefile, the spec all repos build against, and the guide from a Meetup link to the live site.
- the-juggling-companyactive
The Astro site behind thejugglingcompany.com: juggling, ideas, talks, videos and a map of places, all as typed content collections.
- ai-solutions-wikiactive
Source of ai-solutions.wiki, a knowledge base for building and running production AI systems, organised in five layers.
- garden-hub-wikiquiet
A bilingual garden wiki for the Austrian climate: plant profiles, sowing calendar, greenhouse guide and climate regions.
- jugglinglabfinished
My fork of Juggling Lab, Jack Boyce's juggling animator, where I added selectable juggler avatars including a female juggler.
- freelancer-automation.orgquiet
The Hugo site behind freelancer-automation.com: automation tips, open source tools and guides for freelancers.
- freelancer-templates.orgquiet
A library of Remotion video templates for freelancers, with a Hugo showcase site and an embeddable player.
- sisy.socialquiet
The Hugo landing site for SISY, visibility infrastructure for female expertise: the platform, the framework and the story behind it.
- .githubfinished
The profile README for the linda-mhmd GitHub account, introducing the GameDay Europe stream repos.
- aws-community-austria-meetupquiet
The first attempt at the meetup tools: per-meetup config that generated slides and a prep guide in GitHub Actions.
- aws-community-austria-templatesquiet
Remotion components, slide compositions and a design system for AWS Community Austria meetups, with Sessionize integration.
- community-gameday-europe-eventfinished
Event configuration for AWS Community GameDay Europe 2026: participants, schedule and photos, deployed to GitHub Pages.
- community-gameday-europe-stream-templatesfinished
Remotion stream visuals and web player for AWS Community GameDay Europe, the reusable engine of a two-repo setup.
- otto-mcp-sessionizequiet
A small MCP server that lets AI agents search Sessionize sessions and speakers by month, packaged as a container.
- aws-community-austriaempty
An empty repository with no commits yet.
- otto-taxonomyquiet
An InstructLab taxonomy of Q&A pairs and context documents about AWS User Groups in Austria and how meetups are organised, made for OTTO.
- image-generatorfinished
A Python and Pillow script, shipped as a container and a PyPI package, that generates header images for Meetup events.
- usergroup-toolkit.comquiet
The Jekyll website for the AWS User Group Toolkit, using the Minimal Mistakes theme and pulling blog posts from a Notion database.
- mettup-organization-templateempty
An empty repository in the AWS User Group Toolkit organisation with no commits yet.
- png2svgfinished
A containerised script that traces a PNG logo into dark and light SVG versions using ImageMagick and potrace.
- user-group-templatesfinished
Printable role badges, name tag labels and a Meetup welcome message template for AWS User Group leaders.
- meetup-scraperquiet
A small Python script in a container that reads the member count from a Meetup group page.
- content-syncquiet
A repository with only an initial commit, a one-line README and an MIT licence.