Weeknotes 186
19th January, 2025
“Approval granted”
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My car was in the garage this week which stoked my anxiety somewhat. Before they started any work the mechanic told me he was nervous about it, which didn’t inspire confidence, but I did appreciate his candor. I got it back from them a lot sooner than I was expecting though, so that was good.
When someone touches my car I am never convinced that the issue has been sorted even if it presents that way at first. So we shall see if weird noises reappear.
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Download age restricted videos from YouTube using
yt-dlp
.The trick is
--cookies-from-browser chrome
.yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" --cookies-from-browser chrome
Log-in to YouTube from Chrome first, and when you run
yt-dlp
it will prompt to allow reading the cookies from Chrome and voila! -
For the first time in a while I took myself off to the cinema this week to watch A Real Pain written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. I really enjoyed it. I heard Eisenberg interviewed on a couple of podcasts (I guess marketing by podcast works) and he seems like a thoughtful guy.
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Job advert:
We are seeking an experienced Ruby Developer with a strong background in Hanami
I bet you are. Do you know how many Ruby Developers there are with “strong” Hanami experience? Probably like three, and they’re all core team members. This person doesn’t exist.
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The (many) parts that were missing for my keyboard project have arrived (in a surprisingly large box considering the contents) but I haven’t resumed the build yet. From a visual inspection they seem to be correct, but the proof is in the
puddingsoldering. -
Our planning application was approved without difficulty ✅
We weren’t expecting any trouble but you never know when dealing with local council bureaucrats.
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I really should have been taking better care of my server. I know why I haven’t taken care of it better – fear of fubar. Changing things breaks things. However, waiting a long time to change things breaks things more.
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS when it was the latest version, and have done little to it since. Despite the LTS naming tag, support for this version ran out in 2023. Which to be fair is 5 years of updates. I managed to pull all the latest updates and upgrade the system.
What I haven’t yet done, but plan to, is upgrade the distro completely to the next version and beyond. That is a job for next week.
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Went to a wedding on Saturday. When you don’t drink they get boring fast 🥱
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Our new house has some eaves storage which we would like to start using, but it was a bit dirty and shabby in there. The space is fairly cold, but for what we’re going to store in there that should be ok. Condensation is the enemy.
As the space adjoins a bedroom we use as an office it seems like an opportunity to add some extra insulation on the wall between the eaves and office. The office is actually decently warm already, but I don’t think it can hurt to insulate it a bit more for a modest sum.
I’ve been doing some research and the advise is all over the place, but the one thing I don’t want to do is make anything worse. The general consensus is that if you do it wrong you could end up with condensation. And condensation is bad. V bad.
The current plan is to use PIR insulation boards cut to size and pushed between the studs in the wall on the eaves side. That way we’re keeping the eaves as a cold space, and just improving the insulating properties of the wall whilst still allowing everything to “breath”. It may be the start of something more, but easy does it.
When I get back into Home Automation mode I plan on installing temperature/humidity sensors in both the office and eaves to monitor what’s going on, preferably before doing any insulating so we can hopefully compare before and after.
The price of PIR boards is all over the place. To aid in deciding what to buy and from where I found a sheet material calculator which has been very handy so far. You feed in the board sizes you need, and the available boards sizes from retailers, and it shows you how many boards you need and the most efficient way to cut them.
This project feels like our first foray into home improvements that are coming at us fast. We have kitchen designer appointments booked for next week 🫣
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AirPod Noises – Find our what your AirPods are trying to say.
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Years ago we realized our customers needed a more complex set of tools. Thus, we released Oban Pro. Pro is where the serious business happens now, and we want more people to have Web available from the start.
This is a smart move.
Absolutely tons of new features and improvements too including MySQL support so Oban now runs on Postgres, SQLite, and MySQL. Nice.
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New Apple display competitors have entered the chat. Via ATP 622.
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I still don’t want to work for a living. I’m pretty happy posting eBay parcels and pottering about.