Tim Hårek Andreassen # Goals from last month
- Read at least 1 new book: I finished Ruined by design, by Mike Monteiro and I read a comic book, Thor: God of Thunder (2013) #1 - #11.
- Write at least 1 new post: I’ve written two
# What I’ve been up to
# Homelab
There was a new addition to my homelab in July, a 3D printer! I came across some YouTube videos and watched a lot of them, realized that this is something I could use, so I checked online here in Norway if any retailer sells the models that they recommend for beginners - and well, they do! I ended up buying the Creality Ender 3 S1 V1. I’ve made a few prints with it, it takes time and has taken some time adjusting the settings so that it does everything correctly all the time. My first creation was a mop-holder for our mop, I used my calipers and measured everything to their exact dimensions and downloaded FreeCAD. I’d never used FreeCAD before, but I had taken a course in AutoCAD LT back in 2013 - so I thought I could handle it. And to my surprise I did, but nothing advance, I’m still trying to figure everything out and finding out how I can save as much time as possible with my designs. Hopefully in August’s post I’ll have some files to share, until then you can check out my custom-designed mop-holder!
However, I’ve been struggling a bit with the printer as well. The UI is not the best and the instructions that came included was missing some stuff. You see, there is a function on the printer that’s called “LEVEL” which is for “Auto Bed Leveling”. What the instructions don’t tell you is that you need to do a whole lot of manual adjustment before you can do this so-called “auto” thingy. Took me awhile to figure that one out.
# Software / Development
I suddenly had a desire to rewrite my .vimrc into Lua since I’m using Neovim full time now. It was a lot more manageable than I thought, and the result was that I needed to replace a few plugins but nothing major. It was a fun learning experience.
I came across a blogpost about Makefile’s. I always been scared to try to use them, but this blogpost made me realize that they can be super useful! How to create a self-documenting Makefile taught me how to use Makefile’s in a simple manner, and now I updated my dotfiles-repo to use a Makefile instead of relying on many different shellscripts.
restic is something I’ve been looking at as a backup-alternative for my servers instead of relying on rsync. I need to run more dry-runs and test to make sure everything will go smoothly.
# Website
Zola v0.16.0 came out! My site now supports backlinks! I’m looking forward to seeing Zola evolve more in the future.
And I guess I’m never going to be finished with my website, there is always something to tinker with and improve. I came across someone called Luke Harris, I was intrigued by their blogposts and site. I noticed they had a little page in the footer called stats. I read the blogpost about it and was inspired to create one myself, as you may have noticed, unless you’re reading from an RSS-reader, I also have my own dedicated stats-page now. It’s not as sophisticated as Luke’s, but I like how it turned out.
Also, I added a work-page. Not quite done with it yet, but at least now it exists on my website. It features most of my projects and even has a simple filter with search-parameters.
All of my logs, and by all I mean two is now moved from inside the content-folder in Zola to the static-folder inside an api-folder, so now I can query my own logs from anywhere! You can for example see my endpoint for my watched TV-shows here.
My CV now uses the JSON Resume schema, I extended it a tiny bit to allow for logos and when it was last updated. There shouldn’t been any noticeable difference on my CV-page
# What’s next?
My vacation is coming up so I don’t have anything planned, I might blog a bit about my new 3D printer and my newbie experiences with it.
I’m not setting any goals this time,