Weeknotes 182

Last day at work on Thursday and also paid a week early. A Christmas miracle!

My return to the gym is going well. I’m starting to get back into a proper routine now rather than just turning up to test the waters. Better still, the gym is completely closed until the new year 😄

“My approach to running a link blog” – My plans to extend this “blog” are still that, plans, but Simon has some great tips here that I’m likely to copy soon.

Because buying random stuff you don’t need when you have no income is clever I ordered a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition on a whim. There’s a lot of whimming going on.

The POWKIDDY V10 arrived but I barely had time to play with it before going on holiday. It comes with an enormous amount of games, to the point that finding anything is difficult and overwhelming. A reformat and re-install of the latest firmware, and a hand-picked selection of games is in order very soon.

The M-m-m-Megadesk is back in-stock and now on a boat on it’s way from Canada. Hurrah!

Christmas market time – the city of choice this year? Munich. We were very unprepared having booked the hotel and flights months ago in a rare moment of foresight and then having followed that up with absolutely nothing.

It didn’t start well. During immigration the single person manning the queue suddenly decided to completely remove the queue, for reasons unknownm and in the process almost incite a riot. Really fun start to getting away from it all.

Munich is a very pretty city, but it rained for a large part of our time there which made it difficult to appreciate.

Traveling abroad really does bring to light my love of the British plug.

I lost weight whilst on holiday despite a completely sausage based diet. The human body is a mystery, but I’ll take it.

My car was at the garage for an MOT and investigation into non-working air conditioning. It passed the MOT with flying colours, which is a relief. The investigation was less successful, so it will be going back in mid-January.

Jose Valim has confirmed that Elixir 1.18 IEx will have a auto_reload configuration option so recompilations are automatically reloaded.

There are some subtleties which George Arrowsmith explains.

The Creator Of Elixir - Top Shelf 7

We are going to respect the newline

And so we should.

Nice tip on deriving Inspect to get better output from Ecto models

defmodule Postline.Accounts.User do
  @derive {Inspect, only: [:id, :email, :first_name, :last_name]}

  use Ecto. Schema
  schema "users" do
    field :email, :string
    field :first_name, :string
    field :last_name, :string
    field :avatar, :string
    field :subscribed, :boolean, default: false
    field :subscription, :string
    field :role, :atom, default: :user

    timestamps()
  end
end

From Jakub Skałecki.

Secret level is very enjoyable. This series feels like it’s made for my short attention span with the episodes being short. I particularly enjoyed Episode 5, Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear. I do hope that Henry Cavill can pull off a full series.