What I Did

A little bit later than I intended, but…still counts!

I forgot I used to have the “What I Did/What I’ll Do” format for these - that’s a nice way to structure them.

So much for consistency. Forgive me Internet, for I have sinned - it has been five months since my last weeknotes.

Another day, another instance of tinkering with my Magic: The Gathering MCP Server.

I just built my first MCP¹ Server, and it was awesome.

Contrary to my hopes in the previous post, Vault did not magically come back up again. I’m not sure why, but the ZVols created on TrueNAS by the previous cluster had truly gone away: thanks to zfs get, I could see that the creation times of all iSCSI ZVols was in the last week or so, i.e. while I’ve been rebuilding, not from the previous cluster. I guess when the StorageClass was deleted, it also wiped out all associated ZVols? That doesn’t quite ring true to me, as the cluster itself was inoperable due to unavailability of the Cluster Config (which was stored on an NFS mount on the drive that failed) - but, eh, can’t argue with results. The data was gone¹, so, time to rebuild!

A couple of days ago, the Hard Drive that I’d initially been using as my NAS (before investing in a beefy TrueNAS setup) failed. Since my homelab Kubernetes cluster predated the TrueNAS, this was the drive on which I’d stored configuration files for the cluster itself, which meant the cluster immediately went down. I probably could have salvaged it while flying the plane, but this was a great opportunity to start again from scratch using the various lessons I’d learned over the years.

Written from the Oakland airport, on my way to L.A. to attend a live show of Dimension 20 with my good friend Patrick.

God, time has flown by. Is this really the end of my fifth week at Vercel? Feels like a few days. That’s a good sign, I suppose!

Wow, have I really been at Vercel for three weeks? Time flies when you’re learning fast!