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Most of the nation has been working from home since about August of last year, which was when we had the last big lockdown - and subsequently gave up on the idea of doing those as a nation as it dragged-on.
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I’m trying to write more often. In a quite a nebulous hand-wavey way, I want to improve my ability to put thoughts to paper, so I can communicate more effectively. To that end, I’ve begun writing in a private journal about every day, and committing to write one of these blog posts weekly.
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I love using Jenkins for my personal projects and some home automation tasks. It has a lot of features and plugins, and its UI reminds me of the good old days when I was making Minecraft server plugins.
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I live in a flat which I share with some really good friends; meals are planned and shared to lighten the load and costs between us all, same with household supplies. Because of the distributed nature of this setup, it can be time-consuming to organise the grocery shopping and meal plans each week.
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The company I work for is the antithesis of Google; where Google kills products almost religiously, my workplace has deprecated almost nothing in thirty years of existence, but still loves to ship new products and systems.
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If you build and develop a system with paying customers, you know that tracking and publishing service uptime is absolutely critical to build trust. If your customers don’t trust that your system will be up and available when they need it, its unlikely that they will remain your customers for very long. Hosting a central web page where customers can view and track outage events over time builds that trust, and helps with communicating these events as they happen.
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The Rust programming language has been one of those things that I want to get into, but have just been struggling to get my head around. I’ve seen the light, but how the hell do I use it? From the outside, it looks so different to anything I’ve used before.
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Its getting real close to that time of year again, where we all pretend to perform some serious introspection and decide that we have no real issues other than superficial. We all decide we want to start going to the gym, but then give up after a month or so.
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After spending an entire year of promising myself I wouldn’t distro-hop into another Linux OS any more, I thought I would reward myself by installing another OS. Linux Mint this time.
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Shortcuts on Windows are annoying. Inside those little binary lnk files is a large number of properties which are essential to doing some pretty cool stuff.