Some oil painting: working on a portrait of my dog.
Machining: Squaring up stock: my favourite! Kind of not joking though.
Seems like some random offcut I found might be stainless, which is tough to machine.
Not a great start 😛
Continued to play Pandemic Legacy Season 1 -- it's really fun so far. Our group of four players is up to May (we won four in a row but just lost our first go at May).
Considering creating some custom notepaper for typewriting notes on to, but (other than being fun) I can't really see a way that's going to improve over the (copious) notepaper I already have?
Fun can be its own reward, of course.
Finished my first week at the Internet Archive!
Set up my Macbook and realized I probably need to refactor my dotfiles into something with actual conditionals (at least the bash parts). I probably should have done this as soon as I had non-Linux machines I logged into (NetBSD/Illumos) but the macOS really forces my hand here.
And that's how I found out that which on Illumos always produces output even when the path isn't found.
It took three attempts to get something that works across macOS/Illumos/Linux but now I'm happy.
Relatedly: spent time with pip, pyenv, ansible, podman and other, similar friends.
It's just using Zola which is probably overkill for a few pages of HTML and an RSS feed -- but so would writing another SSG or webapp 🤷
It was my 21st wedding anniversary this week. Time flies.
Met a former colleague for patio coffee which was a pleasant way to spend time on the hottest day of the year.
Threaded an overlocking sewing machine. (iykyk)
Read up on repmgr as my new friend for promoting and demoting PostgreSQL. At a core level, the steps are basically the same as MySQL, really.
Set up a three node ScyllaDB cluster for fun(!) and poked it a bit, filling in some gaps in my knowledge. Found out that the amount of battery backed RAM on my SAS array gives SSD-like performance with the sizes of datasets that I'm using. Which is nice.
Set up NoCloudcloud-init using ISO images for building things more quickly in my home lab. This was easier than when I first did it, but that was nearly a decade ago so ... you know you'd hope it's gotten easier?