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 fordomus
.- 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.