Weeknotes 149

My car decided to start losing coolant. About an hour away from home the warning light came on. I’ve had this happen in many cars across many years. It hasn’t ended well in the past. Hopefully it doesn’t turn into a big and expensive job. I will find out the week after next when it goes into the garage.

Maybe it’s upset for not being driven.

Do you know what’s annoying? Programmers on a team asking “Do you know why we did x?” but then never themselves writing anything down. Commit messages? Nah. On the JIRA ticket? I haven’t got time!

This is a solved problem in many cases if you can be arsed.

vfox – I’m an asdf user, but this new version manager might interest some. It seems quite mature already. I’m not sure it offers enough for me to want to switch at the moment.

If you are using Ruby 3.3 I learnt you can limit backtraces to make them more readable by exporting RUBYOPT="--backtrace-limit=5" in your shell config of choice.

Back to the old place for a few days this week to sort out various things. I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed with what feels like a never-ending list of tasks at the moment.

A visit from an electrician and a damp expert were the major highlights. They both turned up on-time and as expected! – there are some good people around.

The electrician replaced my gas hob with induction, and installed new smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms, so that should be hassle-free for the next 10 years I’m sure.

The damp expert was very knowledgeable and told me what I would need to do to fix the decoration issues I’ve had in the bedroom for a long time. The good news is that there is no on-going issue with water ingress. The bad news is that his estimate of costs was considerably more than I expected. So with that in-mind I decided, for now, to replace the damaged plasterboard, and will soon paint to make it liveable for now. I can’t do everything at once.

We also had a new second-hand three-piece suite delivered, which is grubby, but comfortable. I think it will clean up ok.

I needed some keys cut this week, and handily a Timpsons had opened near me, so I thought I’d give it a go. 12 different keys, and four visits to the shop, resulted in zero working keys…I got a refund and they were very nice, but I didn’t expect getting some keys cut to turn into such a saga.

I’m looking forward to a quieter, and shorter, week.