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Weeklog for Week 5: January 27 to February 02

Progress

Finally, finally set up Home Assistant. Now how does that thing work?!
Oh, and of course the lithium batteries in my flood sensors are empty. Of course.

I had a look at Immich for sorting through my photo ~~chaos~~ collection. Looks very slick, but sadly it's just one of those GPhoto clones with no real sorting ability. Am I really the only one who wants folders instead of stream-of-consciousness style photo management? Is that so weird?
All I want is proper automatic date sorting with hierarchies, where I can also manually add dates and do some manipulation, with comments and stories. Is that so hard? Do I really have to write it myself? Oh, and also face detection and grouping. And maps, of course. And light-rooming. And integrations with other tools. But mainly that first thing.

I've started using OpenTelemetry with one of my clients. It's very nice, integration is easy (once you get past the first hurdle with auto-instrumentation), and now I'm on a quest to put everything into a span.
It does feel a bit like "data maximalism" though. Just collect everything and maybe you'll need it later.

I bought a new audio interface from ebay, a Steinberg UR44C, with many more connections than my previous SSL2. Very nice, both the ebay experience as well as the interface. I've mounted it to my desk and now fewer cables are in the way, even though I have more headphones.

Articles

Libraries, programming, etc

Books

  • The Steerswoman's Road: still not quite sure whether this book is any good.

Games

  • Jedi Survivor: it's like playing an action movie!
  • Mars First Logistics: we picked this up because it came out on top in the voting and it is so good. It's whimsical and lovely and stylish and you fight against the physics but (so far) never in a frustrating way. When we had just made it up the hill, pushing and prodding the canister we had to transport and got picked up by a storm, it wasn't “oh no”, it was “ahaha, so that's what storms do“. And then we finally made it to the destination only to see that we'd have to turn the container upright and pick it up with a machine, and the machine was steered with buttons that you press with your vehicle... just fantastic. I had to pull myself away from the game when we stopped playing.

Board games

  • Die Kleinen Alchemisten

Recipes

  • 100-hour brownie

Other media

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