Skipped Week 14! Which is a shame, that'd mark the one year anniversary since I wrote thymesheet as a means to keep my motivated and on-track while I was working for myself / dealing with grief.
I have done much computers for work which is both familiar and different, both in good ways.
I moved ttw to a VM on the 1U HP that is in Colocataires' rack, that I bought a year ago to use for Crestnorth/Runcible and did neither. ttw has technically lived outside of my basement before; at various times it was a DigitalOcean VM or made use of an RDS-hosted database, but those were temporary and, barring calamity, this is permanent.
Also there was calamity: the machine hosting ttw rebooted twice while I was in Northern Ireland -- once on Tuesday and once on Thursday. It needed fixing from Heathrow T5 and also right after an escape room. IPMI finally gave me a hint: a power brown-out. Hopefully not the datacentre (no other machine was affected) so possibly a symptom of just running on a single power supply out of a dual-PSU pair? Either way, it's clear to me that having a second (or third!) machine would make sense for redundancy, so I have two (second-hand) machines coming out to me from Alberta.
I did network shenanigans to conserve IPs like I'd posted about previously, although it has lead to me creating an amount of "network diagram debt".
I got a nice 4K screen for my work desk, and have a USB-C hub that I'm finally happy with. Ironically, it's one designed for a Steamdeck, so it looks out of place, but the cable comfortably reaches under the Rain Stand that my Macbook is on. I'm finally back to that "one cable" experience that I love.
I've taken the opportunity to go back to an external XLR mic which is probably overkill but I already had the mic so: why not.
Spent the week in Belfast meeting folks. I would not do two days travel for two days in person again, but on balance I'm not mad that I did it. (Originally there was going be more people around and other teams planning at the time that we were; that didn't happen which made the ROI of the whole thing a little worse).
The weather there was nice and I could sit and grab coffee on a patio and chat with colleages. Man, between Winter and not working with people in person: I have missed that.