Days and Weeks

2024–W27 #

• Fit cadence and speed sensors to my bike
  • I need to use Wahoo to use them? Strava doesn't support them directly? This sucks.
  • Took the opportunity to do a few tweaks: aligned my bars to forks, put gunk in the tires, brought them up to 50psi
• BBQ'd for the first time in the season. It was okay. I need to be more patient at letting the coals get hot enough (i.e. start much earlier than you think you need to start)
• Got the 3D printer out of the basement. This SV06 is so solid; no calibration needed after a move and after 6 months sitting in the basement. :chefkiss:
• Installed railings on my porch! Two sides done; one to go. (The fourth side is the house).
  • Used the "RailBlazer" kit which I can recommend for both look and ease of installation. Needed to use a ratchet strap to constrain the shape to a square and not let things get trapezoidal, though.
• Attended Canada Day festivities for the first time ever (which also means the first time as a citizen 🥹)
  • Metric were great despite their set being like ... 9 minutes long.
• Back using Thunderbird for the first time in a very long time (since I don't love Migadu's web mail). It's pretty great, actually.
• Read a bit into RocksDB, which is the backend for OutbackCDX
  • And then inserted a bunch of CDX indices from Common Crawl's latest data
  • And I found my own website in there, in cdx-00295. Well, a few pages from it, at least.
  • This is kinda work-related I suppose, but I'm having fun.
• Tried a headless CMS: Directus
  • In a way headless CMS' feel like a very simplistic and commoditized way to avoid having backend developers
  • But I think of how many web systems I've built which could have been (or were!) powered by phpMyAdmin back in the day -- maybe CRUD is some very high percentage of all use cases?
  • Switched thymesheet over to using one, though, by sharing a SQLite database.
  • Had a bit of an argument with Traefik to get this to work, it was easier to pick the routes Rocket still cared about than to do the same for Directus.
  • Switched Clink over too -- the way it works it a Python script scrapes the JSON API and generates .md files and then Zola builds the site. Why yes, that is janky.
• Started Scrobbling (kind of; uploading to ListenBrainz but I'd like to mirror to Last.fm too, might need to make my own scrobbler from Navidrome to that).
  • Gotta say: after a few months I'm loving Navidrome and it has all the features that I want and apparently none that I don't want.
  • I use Amperfy on iOS, use the webapp, and DSub on Android (where I have a dedicated old Android handset in the garage for music)