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Weeknotes 28

Good evening. Or morning.

This week, the organisation is "whatever categories I immediately placed things into". I can't remember the general strides of what I did this week, but thankfully, I've written them down. Here they are.

What did I do this week relating to...

  1. SERVER STUFF
    1. I skipped my server payment
    2. I updated my server project-list homepage
    3. I removed a user from bus bot
    4. I made a flowers website
  2. SKIPBOOK STUFF
    1. I made a script to print GitHub events
  3. ONLINE STUFF
  4. MISC / IDEAS
  5. VIDEO GAMES
  6. HARD STUFF I OBTAINED
  7. HARD STUFF I WAS INVOLVED IN
  8. HARD STUFF I LOST POSSESSION OF

SERVER STUFF

I skipped my server payment

I use Kamatera to host my Virtual Private Server. This week, the monthly payment declined. This isn't a surprise, as I have payments decline weekly. This is because I only keep £50 in my main bank account at a time, so I often have somewhere under £10 in the account. It mainly means that I have to log into a lot of strange accounts, oyster cards, or phone SIMs to tell them "no it's fine I put some money in, you can charge me again".

This week, my server payment declined. I think Kamatera are a month behind on their invoices, so there was no problem, but my card would not be accepted again, so I emailed them.

In the meanwhile, I...

I updated my server project-list homepage

When I first started my server I set up a project list on http://server.alifeee.co.uk. It was written semi-shoddily, so I hadn't been updating it.

I rewrote it using a Mustache template, so now I can add projects with YAML. I wanted to use mo, a Mustache parser written entirely in Bash, but wasn't sure how to use arrays in bash properly, so I used a Mustache parser written in Ruby. I can't remember if I had Ruby installed, but it worked anyway :)

I removed a user from bus bot

I was getting a lot of errors from bus bot about "can't send message to user".

...

a two hour break

...

I am back at home. Bus bot story is boring. Let's continue.

I made a flowers website

I am of the belief that websites should be able to be small, friendly, and self-hostable. I made a fun website using CGI scripts that will host images for someone to create a gallery website. The repository is here: https://github.com/alifeee/flowers-website

SKIPBOOK STUFF

I made a script to print GitHub events

I created some scripts to receive GitHub webhooks and send the data out to a thermal printer, here, https://github.com/alifeee/github-webhook-printing.

Next week, I will attach this to the thermal printer I have and have a live-feed of GitHub notifications for an organisation. Should be alright.

ONLINE STUFF

A few quick ones:

I didn't tell you yet, but I decided to write more briefly. This is mainly because it is bed time.

MISC / IDEAS

VIDEO GAMES

HARD STUFF I OBTAINED

HARD STUFF I WAS INVOLVED IN

HARD STUFF I LOST POSSESSION OF

I missed it above but I also ate a pastel de nata for the first time ever.

It was brief this week, because I must speak. I've been thinking about spinning the topics on something like https://wheelofnames.com/, and then writing paragraphs about those topics, and bullet pointing the rest (I could use my own random picker https://alifeee.co.uk/p5js/random_picker/, but I'm pretty sure it's biased to not be random...). This would differ from the current approach, which is seeming to be: write a few paragraphs about the first things that are categorised, then pick one of:

...and then write the rest of the weeknotes as bullet points. Maybe I'll try that next week. Maybe I'll also have a week off. That might be nice.

Until next time.

You should call them.

alifeee

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