ποΈ Weeknote 2025-W43
2025-10-27 15:49
π§οΈ It has been wet. Like really wet. I went for a swim/run which was fun. River levels are high and flowing fast.
π± In the garden
I went to go plant my potatoes, but the soil was just too wet. The allotment was flooded. Unfortunately it is still raining, and my cut spuds are showing some mold, so who knows if they're going to be ok.
I have been eating fresh rocket and silverbeet and carrots from the greenhouse though, and transplanted some self-sprouting tomatoes. We're still getting cold weather and snow so I might have to start thinking about getting some seedlings to give things a hurry-on.
π©Έ Health
Continuing with strength training. Starting to feel less wobbley on the legs. I didn't run much this week to give the knee a break. Hoping to get going again next week with the strength combo hopefully assisting the rehab.
I'm still dropping weight, popping below 79kg this week. I feel lighter too. Starting to crave better foods, which is a good sign.
π’ Work - It was a busy week, over 45 hours. It made me tired.
π§ I am looking at getting an enterprise server to play around with. What a rabbit-hole! NAS vs servers, ECC vs non-ECC RAMM, GPU vs no GPU, NAS OS vs regular OS, TrueNAS vs UnRAID vs OpenMediaVault vs QTS and DSM, 2.5 vs 3.5, number of bays... I've been reading a lot. I'm leaning towards a Supermicro server. Found a second hand one which doesn't have ECC RAMM, but the CPU isn't terrible, and it has GPU. It is a bit older so I'm concerned about power consumption, but I really like the Supermicros, so it may just be a good starting point to test things, then eventually upgrade to something new.
π§ Before I donated all my music CDs years ago, I ripped them all to WMA for whatever reason, but my music player Finamp doesn't play those files. Rather than re-downloading the files from **ahem** reputable sources, I found a quick solution, using an ffmpeg command to convert the wma files in the current folder to mp3:
for file in ./*.wma; do ffmpeg -i "$file" "./$(basename "${file%.*}.mp3")"; done
I should probably look at how to ensure I'm not losing quality, exporting to best bitrates and formats and whatnot, but for now I'm just retaining the old files, and happy I can listen to the music again.
π» Website - Like my script that auto-generates the elevation profile header image from GPX files, I created another script that auto-generates activity pages for any new FIT files. My code is all over the laptop at the moment, in project folders, script folders, bin folders. I really need to figure out some kind of structure to all this.
π» Tools
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MediaInfo - After converting some wma files to mp3, I wanted to check the default bitrate that ffmpeg spat out. MediaInfo works no problem. I chose the GUI version for once, but there is also a CLI option.
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Garmin-Grafana - Not sure how I missed this one for so long. Looks awesome. It downloads Garmin data to a local database and displays it in Grafana, a data visualisation tool I've been meaning to give a try. It requires Docker to run it as a containerised application, which I have been reluctant to install and set up unless necessary (seems like a bit of a learning curve). Maybe now is the time.
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tmuxp - A very clean way to set up tmux sessions. Save as many json/yaml/tmuxinator/teamocil files and
tmuxp load FILEand boom. Alias it and boom boom. I'm rolling with the yaml layout files because they're the most human-readable and don't require other applications. Boom boom boom.
πΊ Watched
- Honey Don't! (2025) - A quirky, fun flick. Very character driven (ast is top notch). Very Ethan Coen, which reminds me I am due to give Fargo a watch again.
πΈοΈ Currently reading across the web
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My First Thousand Edits on OpenStreetMap | Governor Keagan - OpenStreetMap is an amazing initiative. Keagan has hit a big milestone and inspired me to start chipping away at my own neighbourhood.
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Weekly jumble | Sal - Been enjoying Sal's techy posts for a while. Good to see him jumping on the "weekly" wagon. This is where I picked up on tmuxp mentioned above.
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Assembling a Raspberry Pi Case Made Out of Paper | Adam - Hell yeah. Looking at doing something similar for a rack-mounted server I'm about to purchase, but with cardboard (I don't have a rack).
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Getting Started with pfSense CE: A Practical Guide| Bogdan Caraman - Not sure if I'll go Pi-hole or pfSense yet, but I do like Bogdan's guides, so that may swindle me enough.
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A Word on Omarchy | γγͺγ¦γΉ - I learnt a lot reading this. I was probably never going to try the Omarchy OS and this has cemented that thought. Was a great look under the hood from someone who knows what's what.
Activity Stats
πͺ Strength [3] 2:21:49
π Run [1] 1:00:22 - 10.8km - 126m
π Total: 4 activities - 3:22:11 - 10.8km - 126m
