@vaurora Less than 60 days till my wife and I move to 🇨🇦 from the 🇺🇸 to be closer to her family including more than a dozen nieces and nephews.

@vaurora learning more than I wanted to about plumbing

@vaurora Possibly putting a little too much effort into trying to get a GPU compute kernel to behave itself and stop spilling registers to memory. Profiling shows I'm leaving lots of performance on the table though. Can't have that!

@vaurora Attacking technical debt at work. (YAY) Also, it’s a WFH day so I’m trying to figure out what to do for breakfast besides go make myself a cup of tea.

@vaurora Actual side project:

I've got a Nook GlowLight (released 2013, 2G storage, M/N BNRV500) that still works but B&N killed cloud support for it. It drains its own battery flailing at talking to a dead cloud.

I figured out how to inject my own CACert into my Barnes and Noble nook's cacerts.bks file; and used BIND Response Policy Zones to redirect bncs.barnesandnoble[.]com to a server on my local network.

I'm bored, so I figure: why not try to make my own cloud? ADHD kicked in hard, I pulled all the apps off the device, threw it all into jadx-gui, and used a python protobuf-inspector to pick apart cloud messages from the wire. Comparing protocol captures to actual code has been such a learning experience!

Worst case outcome: I throw some fake cloud up on something like github.

Best case outcome: I breathe new life into old tech, maybe get it working with archive.org. 🤷

@vaurora Figuring out how to self-host some stuff and working-on/writing-for my site 😃 https://shellsharks.com

@vaurora toying with using kluctl instead of opentofu for the bulk of our infra deployments.

Tofu/terraform don't seem to work very well, and seem to be overkill for deploying kubernetes workloads. It feels like we're fighting with the tooling too much.

The question is, am I just exchanging one set of problems for another equally frustrating set? We'll see...

@vaurora revisiting an old project, but trying to do it right this time

@vaurora Sitting with my cats and playing Squaredle.

@vaurora Decided that I would get a systems architecture book. Recommendations are welcome!

I was thinking about LLM's and agents, where I was wondering if it was the technologist or addict part of my brain that would like to further research LLM/agent-based coding.

Currently, I feel limited by not being able to properly define the system or project I want to bring to life. That has to do with both general architecture scope/design, and the (in-depth?) knowledge of the tool or system I want to use. I can learn (with my actual human brain) how to properly architecture a system or project. Then, in the mean time, the AI bubble can implode or not. At the end, I know how to architect projects for either outcome, a net positive.

@vaurora Eating an oversized toasted cheese sandwich at speed, bulking for an afternoon of meetings about computering projects.

@vaurora I'm supposed to be working, but I am actually excitedly waiting for a #tea delivery. Half a kilo of #FTGFOP from the #Mangalam estate in #Assam.

@vaurora writing a Telegram bot that prints the incoming newsletters to a small printer so I can finally delete Telegram from my phone

@vaurora *yawns* it's 7:35am, still in bed after a good night's sleep. Next: coffee, the elixir of life.

@vaurora, I am studying for my German A2.1 exam. The I'm packing for my trip this weekend. It will be my first night train; I'm very excited!

@vaurora trying to find the energy to get moving and goto the workshop...

@vaurora Having lunch from leftovers.

@vaurora Reading the RfA submitted by the board of ASML to the works council, periodically reminding myself of Hanlon’s Razor.

@vaurora looking into taking a discord bot I made a while ago for some friends and turning into some kind of business.

I know a lot of people probably associate “bot” with “ai” but there is no ai involved in this.

@vaurora trying to figure out if I should attempt DELF later this year

@vaurora Listening to my dog snore as I mentally gird myself for what is going to be a challenging trip.

@vaurora Enjoying some alone time in a school holiday week (J took N elsewhere for the day), listening to Pink Floyd and George Michael, trying to get myself to do some housework, considering what to have for lunch and intending to go to my local hackerspace later today.

@vaurora coffee and existential dread before making breakfast?

@vaurora watching birds cute-fight over the winter food we provide for them

@vaurora We apparently have *very* similar glasses.