Weeknotes 274

Wore my winter coat for the first time this week. Don’t mind it mate.

I’m looking forward to all the people who have rigorously downplayed, for years, the fact that Ruby and Rails have historically been slow, rewriting all their apps with Rust so they can run it on a Raspberry Pi.

modern-fs-benchmark – An impressively thorough benchmark of various filesystems most of which is above my head, but which nicely confirms my bias to move ZFS setup to RAIDZ2.

Strategery is back, and I’m the developer

If you bought it eons ago for $2, you get the new version today.

Felony Bench

I spent approximately 4 hours this week fitting the Ethernet cable I routed to the lounge into a wall mountable socket to “tidy things up” rather than just having it emerging out of a random hole in the floor.

Drilling the hole from the top of the skirting board and down under the floorboards was fairly straightforward. Threading the cable up inside the skirting board and out the top, not so much. Why did I even bother?

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB

It was inevitable. I bought a UPS.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, there seems to be a second-hand market on eBay for UPS units which have their front cover bezels missing. I suppose that’s because they are a removable part and then get lost or damaged.

They tend to be quite a bit cheaper with the cover missing. I wondered if anyone may have put together a 3D model, and low and behold, they had. I printed a test and stuck the pieces together using J-B Weld Clearweld. Not sure I’m fully happy with the final product yet, but it seems feasible and a worthwhile compromise for the cost.

I am yet to rack the UPS due to factors, but I checked it turns on ✅

I don’t like LLMs

I was looking up how to write an ISO to a USB stick and came across macUSB at just the right time so I don’t accidentally hurt myself with dd.

Tales from the Software Factory: The Cron and the VM

My old mindset was wanting a bot to nag me into doing the thing. The new mindset is to have the bot take the task as close to the finish line as possible.

As soon as that cool macOS app you use gets a dedicated marketing person, and a bigger team, start worrying. They’re gonna have to pay for all those people somehow. I should’ve known better.

Raspberry Pis do not have PoE built-in, so you can power them using a USB-C power brick, PoE splitter, or a Hat. I wasn’t looking for a PoE Hat (and in fact I already own a splitter) but I saw one on Vinted for the price of a coffee so snapped it up. I don’t have an opinion on whether it is better to use a Hat or a splitter but worth experimenting with for cheap.

This Raspberry Pi might become a UPS power controller of some sort.

That About Wraps It Up for Stock Mac UI

The GL.iNet Comet became useful for the first time this week as I used its Virtual Media function to upload an ISO from which I could boot. This is very handy as you can have the various images uploaded up and ready to go. I even uploaded a Windows 11 ISO 🤢

I did have some fun and games when the Raspberry Pi I had connected to it was not responding to key presses from the KVM, which left me confused, until I got home and found the USB cable from the KVM plugged into a different computer 😆 Can’t blame the KVM or Pi for that!

Best player for Apple TV to play 4K Remux + TrueHD Atmos + DV HDR10 – this is a very handy chart.

I added Spoolman to my Homelab this week. Since I started to print a few things again I realised I’ve completely lost track of what filaments I have. At the moment Spoolman is just acting as a filament-specific database, but it can integrate with printers to keep track of filament usage too, which will be nice if I ever get around to it.

This week for the first time in my life I forgot about a chocolate bar and found it in my pocket later (it was a Bounty since you ask).