Week Notes 24#03

• The other night, the Star Trek Aegean class starship popped into my head. Then a couple of days later it shows up in my Google News feed 👀 Are they in my thoughts, now?
• Google have also been advertising Shake Shack (in London) to me, which is absolutely something I want (and love) but not ideal given I'm not in London for work any more 🫣
• The last couple of weeks we've had foxes coming in and out of the garden, to which Cookie's been very disturbed in the night, which also means so have we 😅
  • But finally getting to the point we're having a full night's sleep, which is much needed
• Bit of a social week, had a nice catch up with Gareth, Tony and Berni
• Shut it Down Day on Friday which was nice, so I had a massage, did some Open Source, and chilled
• Had both Cookie and Morph in the living room a few days, including both of them on our laps
• Got round to looking at how to use Renovate's SBOM data to augment GitHub's Dependency Graph, which involved working around GitHub's fairly restrictive validation
• Made some progress on the private oapi-codegen bug, but not quite there yet
• Had Miss a Moment and Spotify's song radio on a loop for a fair bit of the week
• Spent yesterday looking at new cars, and we've got a deposit down for a VW Golf that's veeery snazzy and we're super excited 🚀
  • It still needs a few things doing before we can pick it up next week, but very exciting 🙌🏼
  • Cookie did well on her own for over 3 hours, and has spent today very sleepy - despite no walk till this evening - likely due to the trauma of being on her own
  • It's a nice upgrade from our Aygo, and it's got some nice bells and whistles, as well as giving us a bit more power and lot more room for Cookie
  • Was a fun test drive - albeit my chance to drive was a bit shorter than Anna's - and I felt very confident driving in it, especially as I'd not driven all week
• After the grey bin didn't get collected last time, I forgot to put it out this week 😠 so now it's still full and we've got a garage full of stuff that isn't being picked up by the person we found through Task Rabbit
• It's been a bit too cold for walking Cookie in the morning or evening, so we've had a couple of lunch-time walks - including one day that another dog stole Cookie's ball, but thankfully we managed to get it back 😅
• Feeling a bit more positive at work after a few things this week in and out of work, and looking forward to meeting a load of folks in person in Prague at our Engineering All Hands in March
• Was hoping to watch The Marvels but turns out it's not on Disney+, only to rent/buy on Amazon Prime/Apple
• Cookie got to see Leo three times in the last few days, after not seeing him for ages, which was nice, but poor Leo 🫣
• Had a nice dinner from Miss Korea

In dependency-management-data:

• A big thing this week has been getting Slack notifications set up for DMD to improve visibility of breaking changes
  • It's involved contributions to Goreleaser and go-semantic-release's goreleaser hooks to make it fully work, and was fun understanding more how they work
• Made a few breaking changes just to validate it all worked OK, which helped clean up some things I'd meant to for some time, including v0.71.0's release to rename advisories to custom_advisories and make the advisories table mirror how policy_violations work - which is a much better design
• Started on my talk for State of Open Con, which has involved me fleshing out the Case Studies on the dependency-management-data website, which provides a bit more depth to some of the "what can I do with DMD?" questions
• Started working on the OpenSSF Best Practices badge, but will still have some gaps for a lil' bit
• At work, I've been putting some bits together to better visualise the pending changes from Renovate, as well as advisories-derived work, which I'll see if I can get pushed into a Case Study

Watched:

• Reacher
  • Sad it's over, but glad there's a confirmed third season coming
• Virgin River
• Beef
  • Finished it off this week, was a very good end
• Key and Peele (on YouTube)
• Saturday Night Live (on YouTube)
• Game Changers (on YouTube)