Weeknotes 250

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY. Somehow.

iMessage randomly signed me out so I was silently not receiving text messages. No warning, nothing. Cool.

The “Passive Income” Trap Ate A Generation Of Entrepreneurs

What actually makes money hasn’t changed. You find something people need. You get good at providing it. You charge a fair price and you keep showing up even when it’s tedious and even when you don’t want to.

I removed the wasp nests. They were thankfully empty. I knocked them off the rafters with the Wasp Nest Extractor 3000 ™ (a broom handle with a scraper gaffer taped to it).

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

That’s a very effective scam. I join a lot of meetings where I find myself needing to install Webex or Microsoft Teams or similar at the last moment and the time constraint means I always click “yes” to things as quickly as possible to make sure I don’t join late.

I’ve been in this situation too. Easy to fall for.

Hex v2.4 released

Hex 2.4 replaces password based authentication with an OAuth device flow and adds two-factor authentication support to the CLI. These changes significantly improve the security of publishing packages.

I broke another tooth. I am cursed.

Rails Upgrade Assistant Skill

A Claude Code skill that helps you upgrade Ruby on Rails applications from version 2.3 through 8.1.

How to instantly be better at things

Beginners are often neurotic, alternating between I better not fuck this up and I’m going to fuck this up.

Regrettably I am, apparently, still a beginner. At everything.

I got around to installing ha-mcp, an MCP for Home Assistant, this week and it seems promising. My whole setup is a bit of a mess, so this is hopefully going to help me sort things out.

We went to see Project Hail Mary. We really enjoyed it. More so than The Martian even. And I gave up on the book.

9 Advanced PostgreSQL Features I Wish I Knew Sooner

EXCLUDE constraints allow us to specify that certain combinations of values must be unique across rows, based on a specified condition.

Remember my booking system problem? I needed to ensure that no two bookings overlapped in time for the same room.

EXCLUDE, in particular, looks useful.

Artemis II Wallpapers

The EICR was eventually supplied and there were no massive problems reported.