What are you doing this weekend?
13 points by caius
13 points by caius
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.
Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!
This weekend, I'm going to try to find the stray kitten that captured my heart yesterday. He just wobbled right up to me, climbed onto my chest, and fell asleep in my arms, purring. So sweet! I spent about three hours playing with him, but I wasn't ready to take him home yesterday. Now I can't find him anywhere... Hopefully I'll spot the little guy this weekend, take him to a vet, and go through the proper procedure to adopt him
Report back: I found her! She was hanging out with a little girl and the girl's mom by the gate in the same building where I live. I took her to the vet, and the vet said vaccinations should be done only after I've cared for her for at least 10 days, and she shows no signs of vomiting, lethargy, or diarrhea. Oh, I forgot to mention that she's actually a she, not a he, according to the vet.
I have two other cats at my other home, so I guess she is their little sister now. Here are two photos I just took. She crawled into my pajamas and is sleeping right now.
update: still there update 2: still there
Before I migrated to country B, I was friends with a cat named Poe in country A, your story made me nostalgic of him. I wish you all the best in your quest to find your kitten.
If he doesn't show up, start leaving food out in the same area. He'll show up (along with every other cat in the neighborhood).
I just spent the last work week at an overseas office, so... laundry and continuing my latest Elden Ring run, I guess?
I was bitten by a cat earlier this week and have an infected arm, so I'm going to be stay home and resting. We have a cold snap, so it's a good time for it I suppose.
While I do that I'm working on a Common Lisp package to add photos to RideWithGPS rides that I've recorded by matching up the dates on the photos with the GPS tracks from the rides.
Preparing for a new job and paying a visit to SF.
Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!
This weekend, I am doing nothing.
Well, I lied a bit. I am just going to stay in bed/apartment and watch tv/youtube all day. Maybe I'll go down to the lobby to pick up delivery food.
I'm going to set up my website to have it's own notes feed, that will be sent over to mastodon. I added webmentions so I'm pretty interested in all of this now!
Would love you hear a little more detail about this workflow and what it will achieve for you!
Its mostly to have my more longform microblogs on my site, instead of only on Mastodon.
So it goes like
Make a start on the garden for the year, there’s a pile of stuff that’s too rotten to do anything with which needs to go to the tip and a bush that we need to prune. Not supposed to rain until the evening so might just be cold rather than wet.
Also need to fit a dashcam to the new car (we bought it in, er, november) because having it sat on my desk is doing nothing to help with any potential collision it gets involved in. And there’s that server that isn’t doing anything, which I want to attack with NixOS and Disko now I’ve noticed Disko is a thing.
Reading, hopefully. Trying to make my way through the Eisenhorn W40K series, but my attention span is so shattered since COVID and I’m still struggling to rebuild it.
It will be quite cold and my area has infrastructure doesn't handle winter weather well. That said, if the power stays on, I'll continue to get some Reticulum communication going between my devices. I want to write some ocaml, and that may happen. I will do some yoga. Probably no climbing since the gym is likely to be closed.
Staying warm for upcoming storm, setting up an agent orchestration platform using Mastra to automate a few things, read Winter of our Discontent and journal along the way.
I planned to spend the weekend continuing my MikroTik setup, but it turned into a much bigger infrastructure rabbit hole.
Over the last month I’ve also set up VPN connectivity between two apartments and a small server in DigitalOcean, so everything now lives in a single private network. From there, all machines back up to a FreeBSD/ZFS NAS, and the NAS itself pushes hot off-site backups to both Google Drive and AWS S3 via rclone.
It’s oddly satisfying to realize that ~600 GB of personal and work data is now backed up locally on ZFS and in two separate clouds. Not exactly what I planned for the weekend, but definitely time well spent.
I’ve wanted to build something like this for years, so it feels good to finally have it come together.
It definitely felt worth the time and effort, and I learned a lot revisiting more "traditional networking". After years of working almost exclusively in cloud environments like AWS and its VPC and cloud security, that part was unexpectedly nostalgic.
Apparently, doing more tilde stuff. (For context, a public Linux server for a community. I intend everyone to be root.) I had already set up Vaultwarden and cgit for git hosting.
Today I have set up personal backups with Borg; Borg backs up my home directory to a repository on the tilde, and then I pull the Borg repo using rsync to my personal infrastructure for long-term backup and disaster recovery.
(systemd --user instances are pretty handy, I have to admit.)
With this, I think I will be satisfied enough with the tilde to start moving some repos from GitHub. I've thought of writing a small tool to replace all text files in a repo with a "moved to $URL" text so I don't break direct links to GitHub.
Contrary to what it might seem, this is decompressing for me. This week I got to a significant milestone to a gnarly task at work. We're running a SaaS now, and some guy we hired but is not with us any more set it up in a way that was not really my cup of tea. Yesterday I managed to set up an equivalent staging environment running. That's been a lot of learning about Terraform, AWS, Vercel, Supabase (evil stack, I know), but in the end I have something much more proper... and a fraction of the codebase size (I think it's about 4x smaller in Terraform lines of code.)
I'm also happy to have decided to go with SOPS + age (with both age keys and SSH keys). Pretty usable and using public key cryptography instead of symmetric encryption is much nicer than, say, ansible-vault.
I've been running an open playtest for my game, Botnet of Ares. Just pushed a big update through & let in many more testers, so I will have to spend some time going through their feedback & telemetry.
Trying to relax ahead of some rather busy weeks/weekends coming up.
Staying cool amid the 40°C degree heat.
Planning a trip to Portugal, ideally for a ~week in Porto. Any suggestions?
Other tasks: Reading Katalepsis, surviving the cold, trying to figure out what I want to do with Garnet.
