Week Notes 23#48

• Been very chilly this week, so been glad to have my thermals, and been enjoying wearing longjohns too
• It was Giving Tuesday at work, so felt good to - finally get around - donate some money to Crisis and Framework
• Realised I forgot to submit a talk to the Go devroom at FOSDEM 😅 But I've got a couple of talks in for the SBOM devroom so 🤞🏼
• But I did get my two submissions into the State of Open Con - and excited to start the process of reviewing all the talks this coming week!
• Cookie's been poorly this week, following on from last Thursday's plastic eating
  • She worryingly was worse after the vets on Monday, very lethargic, unresponsive but luckily after a day or so she started coming back to normal
  • She absolutely hated some of the tablets she needed to have, and was very funny when she got a taste of them 😬 but also not great considering all the other excellent bits of food we'd tried to bribe her with
  • Definitely meaning I wouldn't make it to London for a dinner with Mend, which was a shame, but I was already pretty confident I wouldn't be able to make it
  • But we also didn't get to go to Jimmy Carr on Wednesday, from tickets we'd booked last Xmas, as it was a little bit of extra pressure on her even when she's at the best of her height, let alone when she was still very much recovering from being poorly
  • We knew it was bad when Morph was eating remnants of cheese out of a bowl on the kitchen floor, but she stayed on the sofa 🥺
• Finally got around to a PHP upgrade for my Matomo instance and ended up having ~30 mins of downtime, but wasn't too bad a process in the end
• Had a great catch-up with Keith about work, what I've missed since I left 'roo, as well as chatting dependency-management-data, SBOMs, and the proposed GraphQL support to DMD
  • Ended up getting the GraphQL support restarted and hoping to finish it off over the next couple of weeks
• Realised this will probably be the season of Apex Legends I don't complete the battle pass for (previously I've only had one season where I got to 105/110)
• Started our Xmas decorating, got the tree and various decorations up 🎄🎅🤶 as well as getting some new Ikea furniture, and starting on the assembly process
• Spotify Wrapped landed, which had some good stuff in it - I'll post a short post about it tomorrow
• Made some great sweet 'n' spicy Korean fried chicken (via) - not as good as Bimbimbap To-Go around Deliveroo's offices, but pretty good for me not having to leave the house 😋
  • Was my first attempt at deep frying, and managed to go super well given I probably shouldn't have done it on a whim 😹
• Yesterday evening had Morph on my lap and Cookie on the footstool, super chill, with the log burner going which was 🥰

In dependency-management-data world:

• After shipping the ability to use OPA, I immediately broke the contract 😹 The fun of a pre-1.x release, and knowing I probably didn't have any users yet
  • It's now much easier to write, and I've made it more resilient to implementation issues too
• Also added the ability to get licensing information
• Plus added the ability to store your own license data, i.e. via an SBOM's relevant fields, or just directly in the database
• Added the dependenton report to make it easier to determine where a dependency is used by
• Been toying around with writing a nicer editor for the OPA policies, but probably should prioritise one of the many other in-flight/soon-needed features

Played:

• TitanFall2
  • Played some more good Frontier Defence

Watched:

• Friends
• The Continental
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
• Christmas With the Coopers
• The Witcher
  • Got through 7/8 of the episodes this weekend, but didn't quite finish the latest season - bit behind as we don't want to lose Henry Cavill
  • Spent a bit of time during the episodes looking up names and events from the previous episodes 😅