Weeknotes no.18 – not-so-regular weeknotes
what a busy week this has been 😶🌫️
- after being a bit sloppy for a few weeks, the regular weeknotes are back!
- did a new self-created ATHX-type workout on thursday at our crossfit gym, and i can still feel my back (today is sunday 🙃)
- new tattoos from last week are healing well; itching for more 😉
- quite happy with how the blog post about the state of the software factory turned out; collected lots of thoughts from the past few weeks and months in there
- we’re making good progress on a new freelance project (currently recreating a company’s website from scratch in a new modern tech stack); hoping to still launch this month
- microsoft had an outage, which should tell us more than ever to not host everything on the big few tech companies – i don’t, but most companies unfortunately still do
- i had an eye on a second-hand minisforum mini pc for a good price; then i checked the ram prices and decided to stick with my existing (slightly broken) lenovo mini pc for the homelab
- once again there were so many new ai models and updates this week
- for one project i spent some time coding with gemini 4 hydrogen and i’m quite impressed; always thought the gemini models are quite the underdogs; very solid across the line, they just don’t have well subsidized plans like claude
- super happy with my local dev setup right now with most of my day spent inside herdr in my custom app setup 👨🏻💻
- 🛸 added a factory droid subscription which is working super well so far; good selection of models; efficient and fast harness; good terminal and desktop app; solid token budget for the price
- at work we’re in the process of migrating one service off the cloud into our german-wide network and at the same time rewriting most of its technical foundation
- this week we’ve finally received all servers and are now waiting on some final approvals and firewall changes to be up and running and ready for migration 🚀
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