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| This Week (2024-06-29) | 2024-06-30T03:49:33.195783Z | 2024-06-30T03:49:33.195783Z |
These "week in review" posts seem to be pretty popular so I thought I'd jump on that trend, too. Also, I struggle to post regularly. I tell myself it's because I'm busy building things (and documenting things), but Robert Birming assures me that there is always time to write. So let's give that a try.
This was a busy week at work (that seems to be a trend of late), but I still managed to find time for some fun personal projects and self-improvement.
Rocket Surgery
Last weekend, I started building the LEGO Artemis Space Launch System model. I was only able to drag out construction for a week, and I didn't go over budget, either. I really don't get why Boeing had such trouble with this build.
ChillFeed
Last weekend I also began developing a lightweight feed aggregator based on my rather specific preferences. I used Claude to help me rapidly prototype and iterate on my ideas, and had a working demo about two hours after the idea first popped into my head. It doesn't track read/unread status (unread indicators stress me out) and doesn't display the full text of any post (I'd rather see what the author wrote on their site than in a stripped-down form). It uses GitHub Actions to refresh the subscribed feeds and uses GitHub Pages to provide the web interface. And it's configured with YAML. I'm still doing a lot of tweaking but I've been quite pleased using ChillFeed to follow blogs this week.
Cycling
I (along with many others, apparently) picked up cycling during lockdown, and I've done a reasonably good job of keeping with it. I try to ride three times a week, and aim for at least 12 miles each ride. I had been doing those rides primarily on the multi-use paths near my home, but lately I'm doing more and more of those rides on the road. That seems to give me a much better workout, and this week I hit a few personal records along the way. It feels good, man!
In other news...
- I moved some of the more personal (that is, about me rather than a piece of technology) slash pages from my runtimeterror blog over here: namely, /uses and /save. My thinking is this blog will be a more logical place for stuff about me rather than just the technology I play with (though there's of course going to be a ton of crossover there).
- Semi-related, I finally figured out how to use Hugo's link render-hook templates to flag external links with a little ↗ indicator so I implemented that on the other site. Maybe I can figure out a CSS-based approach to do that here too.
- I built on last week's work on using Cabin analytics to track upvotes on Bear posts and added a similar "kudos" function to runtimeterror.
- A fun side project at work this week was creating a GitHub Actions workflow to help us decide where we should go for lunch each day. It's another excuse for me to keep practicing building stuff with Go, and I think it's helping some of the other team members get a better understanding of how GitHub Actions workflows work.
- I've been s l o w l y reading the O'Reilly Production Kubernetes book for what seems like ages. I finally finished it last night.🎉 It gave me a lot of good insight and things to consider when it comes to building a production Kubernetes platform. My next "for learning" book will probably be something Go-related.
Top scrobble
My most-played track of the week:
🎧 LoST by Bring Me The Horizon
=> https://blog.jbowdre.lol/this-week-2024-06-29/ 📡 Originally posted on jbowdre's weblog