🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W48

2025-11-30 20:42

📝 Been working on my GTD system. Got a pretty sweet flow of todos (using a todo.md file based on the todo.txt format, project creation shortcuts on my laptop and Android, all synced to my notes repository and accessible via Obsidian (Android) and Helix (laptop), backed up to my Git repository (Forgejo, Raspberry Pi). It's complex in the back, but simple in the front. GTD is not just about the systems of course, but actually getting shit done, and I'm getting some real results there too. I'll probably do a specific post around this at some point.

💻 Last week I received my 4x 4TB Seagate hard drives so I could get cracking on my Supermicro server. I'm decided to go with RAIDZ1 on TrueNAS. So essentially 12TB storage, 1x hard drive redundancy. After setting up the storage pools and datasets, I installed Jellyfin and started moving all my media across from my ~10 year old WD 1TB external hard drive. It is a relief to get it all off that old clunker. I've already lost a TB from a HD giving up. A few tweaks to DNS settings and permissions to get things running. TrueNAS is running a newer version of Jellyfin than my Debian 12 bookworm laptop. I find the media libraries a little bit cleaner. I used FileZilla to transfer data, taking most of Saturday. Still working on my Music. When I ripped my CDs back in the day I used Windows Media Player so I'm now going through a slow process of converting all .wma files to .mp3. I've been using the ffmpeg code from here to do this.

Once I've got all my media across I'll start one of the next server related projects:

• NextCloud (including hosting for family)
• Immich photo hosting (including hosting for family)
• Pi-hole
• SearXNG
• New server-specific blog website hosted on the server itself

Again, I'll do a specific post about this server at some point.

🌱 Had lots of helping hands with dad visiting and T moving in before her trip overseas. We've been pulling lots of weeds, clearing and replanting beds in the greenhouse, transplanting tomatoes, planting potatoes, flowers, greens, onions, beans. It's all out right now.

🩸 Health - At physio we started discussing the possibility of patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) as the condition with my knee. I'm now strapping it accordingly, and it is showing some results. I'm continuing to do strengthening exercises and increase my running without flaring it up too much. I see a sports doctor on Tuesday for deeper analysis and get booked in for an MRI, but I feel like I'm passing a milestone.

💻 Website - I added a 12-week run totals chart to the main page of the activity log

💻 Tools

• FileZilla - With SSH enabled on TrueNAS I can quickly connect into my server in FileZilla with SFTP and drag and drop files to their new location. It was very very simple to get going, and saves me having to remember all the rsync commands.

📺 Watched

T and I have started a classic movie night once a week (give or take). Our tastes are quite different, but we do find a good middle ground if we are nice to each other.

• Sound of Music (1965) - OK not really middle-ground, but I found the story not too bad, and T was nice enough to skip through a lot of the singing parts.

• This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Sticking with a music theme. Got a few laughs.

• Superman (2025) - I really struggled to enjoy this. I just can't get into superhero movies. This felt like a crappy Sunday morning cartoon that went for way too long.

Activity Stats

🏃 Run [4] 3:17:20 - 35.8km - 659m
💪 Strength [2] 1:13:58
🤸 Pilates [1] 0:17:42

🏁 Total: 7 activities - 4:49:01 - 35.8km - 659m