I work at #Grafana and persuaded my marketing team to sponsor #emfcamp ... I was speaking to #Antithesis and also persuaded them to sponsor EMF Camp.
Result... EMF Camp have a load of money, and I have more tickets than I need = a good problem.
Antithesis have given me 2 tickets and 1 car park pass to EMF Camp to give away, for free, with zero expectation of anything... also I have maybe 1 spare Grafana sponsor ticket... but how to do this?
Well here's Antithesis https://antithesis.com/ just for FYI, it's like a simulation testing fuzzer... runs your containers and fuzzes them amongst other things. Grafana you already know. That's the entire marketing pitch for both.
Anyone who both boosts and likes this post by 12:00 UTC on Thursday 7th May... those people will be entered into a random draw and I will give those people tickets. If someone does not reply within an hour of me notifying them, I'll move on to the next person, etc until all the tickets I hold are gone.
Yay to EMF Camp https://www.emfcamp.org/ which is July 16th– 19th 2026 in Eastnor, UK.
I really have to stop having ideas because now this ADHD is medicated I also have the ability to execute on them and my life is way too full already.
Why must everything be YAML now? I’ve been playing with ESPHome recently, the device support/build pipeline is amazing but I really hate that it’s all built around a precarious stack of YAML with embedded C++ (no, that’s not a typo).
There’s all sorts of clever pre-processor hacks and extension points to make the YAML somewhat composable but please, just use a real programming language.
Can’t work out whether I have a migraine or the chip on my glasses lens is having much more impact than I’d expect on my ability to see. Either way I’m going to feel sorry for myself on the internet here.
Pitch
Three-way, split-screen film
James Bond, George Smiley and Jackson Lamb all given the same task to achieve separately - perhaps in different decades.
Each played by Gary Oldman, who also plays the villain.
💗 Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt
Stand back everyone, I’m writing C. ESPHome doesn’t have a functioning display driver for the little e-paper display thing I bought a while ago. I’m going to attempt to port the example one into an ESPHome component, which I’m sure will result in no swearing at all.
It finally happened, I forgot about an online grocery delivery slot I’d put a placeholder in for and then didn’t update it. Really hoping I can cancel the £60 worth of Soleros that are on their way.
Someone at work (a company which specialises in gathering/reporting on energy usage and indoor air quality data) showed up in the main channel and basically went “who has opinions on Home Assistant”.
May as well have posted “everyone take the rest of the day off”, the impact on company productivity would be similar.
This is cyberpunk as fuck.
https://techhub.social/users/rayckeith/statuses/116439195184878052
I had a hideous nightmare last night, there was a student retro club which advertised playing 00s music. Then I woke and had the even more hideous realisation that that’s probably a real thing somewhere what with the 00s being outside the living memory of university students.
Normalise holiday auto-replies that read “I am on holiday and any emails received while I am will be automatically deleted unread, please contact me again after [date] if it mattered”.
It’s a long shot I know but if anyone wants to hire me to just pursue whatever takes my interest from day to day with no regard for profitability or usefulness I can offer you very competitive rates.
Even the local Indian takeaway is being needy now. Just got a message from them that opened “Did we let you down?”
What? Let’s just keep it casual buddy, I’ll give you a call when I’m in the mood* but you shouldn’t expect anything more.
* For a curry
I have to be up before 8am tomorrow for the first time in several weeks, so of course I’ve spent the last 90 minutes aimlessly reading the internet rather than going to bed.
“When you set it to clock it just fires off the bears immediately and then shuts up” is a sentence I didn’t expect to use today.
Some friends are planning a weekend LAN party for 10 or so people soon and I swear I’ve read almost as many messages about the planning for that as I have for a 3500 person festival.
“Don’t get a locksmith, changing a lock isn’t that hard, I’ll sort it for you” I said to my parents.
I have spent 6 hours changing a lock today, because everything on that door was slightly the wrong size.
Does anyone have a good guide to migrating a self-hosted Fedi instance from one piece of software to another in-situ? I assume there’s a bunch of keys I need to make sure remain the same but thats about where my knowledge ends.
You also don’t make the free meal kids a very visible group of kids who’s parents don’t make as much money, which can only be a good thing given the tendency of kids to be mean little shits.
https://wandering.shop/users/realtegan/statuses/116341583945372288
I’ve gone right off this long bank holiday weekend since realising yesterday my refill for the drugs that make my brain work got caught up in it and rather than having just enough to see me through to the next lot arriving I have -2 day’s worth. Apologies to anyone who has to interact with me today or tomorrow.