2024–W26 #
- Started week 26 at the right time!
- I should get a medal for this as I frequently end up putting stuff on the wrong week.
- FWIW ISO weeks start on Sunday.
- Moved email from Fastmail to Migadu because of layoffs that look like union busting 🙂↔
- I also took the opportunity to bin SendGrid for ttw and some other places I sent email. I've felt like the free tier of SendGrid was a zero-interest-rate-phenomenon just waiting to be cancelled and the company is bullish on directly replacing labour with AI so fuck them, too.
- I guess it's the time of the year to be militant about labour and also SMTP.
- Did some more dithering code! I implemented Atkinson dithering and it's the most aesthetically pleasing so far. https://github.com/insom/dith/commit/00e4a4a620262d068673915b9c583e17344eac37
- Finished the 100 exercises from rust-exercises.com
- Some were fun and I could feel myself getting better at Rust; those "a-ha" moments.
- Some were weird and I got the tests to pass but I suspect I just tricked the compiler vs. solving them the intended way. That's the problem with test-driven learning (like Ruby Koans etc.) -- not every answer that passes means you learned what you were meant to.
- Tried out a new heart rate monitor for Strava rides. I also have a pair of rotational sensors to install to get my cadence vs. speed statistics.
- I set up a little Hadoop/HDFS minicluster at home to fill in gaps in my knowledge. If you see this "fill in my knowledge" theme lately: these are things I don't 100% need to know for my job (or I would learn them in work time) but that it bothers me that I don't know well enough. I like to speak with confident authority on a topic and that means using software, not just reading the docs about how it should work.
- Started using Bootstrap 5 for a little project. Having tried TailwindCSS and other modern things (which are probably better) it's still refreshing how quickly you can build something not-ugly with Bootstrap. There was a time around 2012 when it felt like every DevOps tool used Bootstrap: the undeniable attraction of making a pretty interface without having to learn (much) CSS.
- I learned Sieve, or at least enough to replicate my email filters.
- Wild that I've avoided it so long, considering I was a mail administrator for many years (as part of my job and also due to self-inflicted family responsibilities)