Week Notes 24#34

Heading home from Dave and Faye's on Monday, a day off on Tuesday, and then a three-day week leading onto a Bank Holiday weekend:

• Had a fairly good journey back, albeit we had a lot of traffic towards the latter end of the journey, but gave us a chance to swap drivers
• Had a nice lunch at the 68 Cafe, with some very nice cakes to takeaway 😋
• Before we left we gave the dogs a good walk, and Anna found Jasper's ball in the field we'd lost the day before 👏🏼
• Had a very nice meowy welcome from Morph - a little more than normal as it turns out he'd run out of food while we were away 🫣
• Lidl's had Rocky Road, which isn't as good as the 68 Cafe Rocky Road, but it's pretty good
• Had a few nights where I've had music stuck in my head overnight, which has been a bit annoying, especially as it's not the usual music I've been listening to 🤔 I.e. one night it was a Kings of Leon
• My GopherCon writeup has appeared in the Golang Weekly and Applied Go newsletters
• Morph's had a number of dreamies this week, literally racing into the living room, no worries about Cookie being there, as he loves them so much 🥰
• Pizza tonight - as I was too busy to go on Friday during the day, and CBA to leave the house yesterday - which was nice, but they didn't have all the things, and Amazon Prime was being a pain so didn't end up watching The Fall Guy
• Recently I've been noticing a number of hits on robots.txt (which doesn't exist right now)
• Doing perf reviews this week, getting some good feedback from Fadi, and reflecting on some of the great things I've done this last 6 months, but as ever, struggling to put the words together for it so it fits within the perf review process
• Not a fan of being on ad-supported Amazon Prime 😠
• Tried Toblerone's version of Gu, which were OK? Very sweet, and not at all Toblerone-y
• Had a good chat with Alec around DMD, Renovate, OpenAPI, BDD and EngProd at large
• Had a good chat with Anders about a guest post for the OPA blog
• Been very annoying getting many reminders from Amazon about one of our Hue dimmer switches being low on battery, having the Alexa and both our emails being told multiple times a day that it's low - not happened quite this badly in the past
• Cookie found a chicken wing in the garden - presumably thrown over the fence by a twat, or brought in by some wildlife - and thankfully we managed to get it off her before she could eat too much (or hurt herself). She then went out again - under supervision - and was very excitedly returning to the scene of the crime, and while looking around I got absolutely covered in grass seeds, even moreso than Cookie has been in the past
• Gousto arrived very late on Wednesday, so we needed to source dinner ourselves. It was a good opportunity to get an Iskender from Rakki Rakkas 😋😋😋
• Lots of Gousto meant a lot of cooking, and more than we'd planned this weekend
• Did some cleanup of my TODO list (only ~280 outstanding things on my Google Tasks (:deep_fried_laughing_crying:) left)
• Feeling like we're starting to come down with something (not COVID, at least right now) that we may have picked up from the kids
• Got the little water tap fitted, and about two hours later had it taken out as the tap we'd ordered was broken 😭 So now need to get it replaced by the manufacturer 🤞🏼

In dependency-management-data and renovate-graph:

• Worked out why renovate-graph's following of configuration wasn't working, and it turns out it was an implementation error (at work)
• A few tweaks to renovate-graph, most importantly making lockfile parsing opt-in
• To simplify the release process, I started looking at semantic-release, but am super disappointed that you can't release a 0.x release
• Added the storing of supported_until and eol_from for DMD Policies, given it came up at work as something we'd want to use

Played:

• Apex Legends
  • Enjoying Straight Shot, my first time able to play it as I missed the first time it was on
• Ratchet: Gladiator

Watched:

• (no) New Amsterdam
• Saturday Night Live (on YouTube)
• The Great British Sewing Bee
• His Dark Materials
• Death and Other Details
  • An excellent recommendation from Dave and Faye, and very very recommended from us too! Really great whodunnit, very well shot, great story, and I love that none of the cast were particularly known (to us? Aside from Mandy Patinkin, I guess?) so it felt like a load of normal people rather than "oh that's so-and-so from that thing we watched"
• Rings of Power