2024 Week #42 Notes

week-notes

2024-10-14

Monday 14th October

• Fixed deployment SSH aliases after the Tailscale change on Friday.
• New monitor for SP purchased.
• 121 with PSK, discussed clashing engineering processes with VP.
• 121 with RT. Discussed VP engineering as above, and the benefits of the GH runner.
• Investigated act as a way of delivering changes to Github actions more quickly.
• Started work on hortus, a companion for domus.
  • Good progress, UI built, extraction needs work.

Tuesday 15th October

• Early start.
• Various PR approvals, including one for urgent fix to WWTW.
• Added OPML export to Hortus.
• Arrange MB laptop pickup.
• Long chat with VP
• 121 with WH.
• 121 with WF.
• 121 with SP.
• Management call, descussed AI pitch and KBT pitch
• 121 with LDC, caught up on the recent VP account changes, and wider roll-out of the urgent fix from earlier.
• Email HR re support
• Debugging ElasticSearch issue with WH and RT.
• Meeting with ET, Tech at Brooke

Wednesday 16th October

• KBT Response work
• KBT Security Questionnaire work
• Train, Euston.
• PR reviews on train, various.
• Discussion with SP re validators.
• TTEF dinner, 6:30pm

Thursday 17th October

• Train, home.
• Repository fixes for menu bug:
• React - yes - pr done
• NOC - yes - pr done
• Climate Impact Partners - yes - pr done
• UKHIH - yes - pr done
• Horseworld - yes - pr done
• MTAR - yes - different
• Pagets - no
• Knights Foundation - yes - different
• Perennial - no
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Petalite
• AI pricing meeting.
• HR meeting LR/LDC.

Friday 18th October

• Reconfigure Teams notifications
• Backups waiting on SP
• Github pulls done.
• Errors is difficult, very complex Sentry alerting rules.
• Uptime needs manual configuration in Pingdom
• Deployments done.
• Call with NI/Django sales lead.
• Chores.
• Various noodling on Thinkpad setup.
• Did some work on Hortus, added pluggable parsers, and the database stuff to support it.
• Small bugfixes for setup.sh.

Weekend