Notes

Short updates, links, and thoughts that do not need to be full blog posts.

“Software engineering is what happens when you add time and more developers to a code project correctly”

I had another play with #elixirlang this weekend. I very much like the pattern of not really worrying about errors; Let it crash and try again.

I might spend a bit more time with it…

I bought a carbon dioxide monitor online after reading a few stories of people finding out that their houses were terribly ventilated. I live an a drafty terrace house and was also very shocked to see readings around 1800 ppm (outside is around 420 ppm). Opening a window makes a difference pretty quickly, but it’s freezing. I’ve no idea what I’ll do with this info, but it’s been fun watching the data.

I’ve been working on rebuilding my personal website. I want a system where my writing is stored in plain text/markdown. For my blog posts, this is easy, I make a commit and the site will rebuild with the new article.

The problem comes when I want to also host my own notes (basically my mastodon posts). It can work the same way, but I expect to have vastly more notes that posts. Reading and parsing this many files at runtime just isn’t very efficient.

I also need to be able to create notes without redeploying as that seems likes a wasteful process.

I would have to create the note file on the server so that the note page could be published and also create the file using the GitHub api so that the note is persisted.

I know there are solutions to all of these issue, but they all involve compromises on how I want to store my data or involve writing and maintaining more code that I’d like to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgT-bm-dP4

Beau Miles is the kind of person we should all aspire to be. He's a fantastic story teller who loves to find adventure in his own backyard and often does so with message of sustainability.

This is just his most recent video but I highly recommend going to his channel and watching a few over lunch.

I think I might end up building a website for the Ulster Flying Club. They’ll need to update it themselves and I won’t be able to maintain it.

I think that might rule out Wordpress because if someone isn’t looking after it it’ll become hopelessly out of date. Any recommendations on tech that fits those requirements?

I’m not at State of the Browser but the #SotB2023 hashtag is making it easy to keep up to date. It’s the first time I’ve seen a hashtag work really well for me on the fediverse.

I’ve been swimming a lot recently 🏊

I’m not very good at it so I’m mostly doing this to learn and get better.

It such a good workout! 45 mins in a pool and I am absolutely ruined!