Continuing my pattern of writing “week"notes every fortnight. It’s not intentional, I swear, it’s just working out that way!

A snippet that I find myself needing more often than I’d like to admit - when you’ve opened a file for editing in vim, but when you go to save you are reminded that it needs root permissions to do so.

Depending on how you look at it, I just finished up either the worst or the best snowboarding season of my life so far.

Looks like I’m averaging about one “weeknotes” post every two weeks. That’s actually not too bad!

I just went to write up a new weeknotes post, and noticed that that would have meant that all three previewed posts on my main page would have been weeknotes. That simply will not do! So into the depths of Hugo layouts I ventured once more.

I had intended to write this weeknotes on the amusing rabbit-hole of yak-shaving I’d fallen down:

Well this has already been an interesting experiment. Only one week in, and I already feel more motivated and focused to work on personal projects and the goals that I’d set. Some of that might just be the ephemeral “New System Energy” that is plentiful when you start a new organizational system or habit, but what the hey; even if it’s fleeting, I’ll gladly ride it as far as I can!

As I hoped in my last post, I’ve set up Gitea Actions on my homelab, with a view to completely replacing Drone which I’ve found to be pretty buggy and missing some core features¹. The process was reasonably smooth, but not entirely turnkey, so I’ve laid out the steps I took in the hopes that they’ll help someone else.

I’ve recently been struggling with a feeling of lack of tangible progress towards goals, or even of any idea of what those goals are or should be. Inspired both by GTD and by Simon Willison’s practice, I’ve decided to start writing “weeknotes” - records of what I’ve done each week, and what I’d like to focus on.

I know just enough about computer security to know that I don’t know enough about computer security, so I default to keeping my systems as closed-off from the outside world as possible. I use Cloudflare Tunnels for the few systems that I want to make externally available¹ (like Gitea), and Tailscale to access “internal” services or ssh while on-the-go.