Yesterday, I wrote up a little post, and was disappointed to see that my auto-posting Lambda failed to send anything out. This morning, I figured out why and fixed it up. Read on!

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Recently, I’ve been having a problem with Typescript files in Emacs — any time I open one and it tries to activate eglot (the new-ish built-in LSP mode), I would get this massive multi-line error that started with query pattern is malformed. Read on to see how I fixed it.

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Recently, my work team listed an infrastructure engineer opening (note: that link will probably rot once the position description is taken down, sorry…). There’s one part of the JD that I’m fairly proud of having written, both because I believe, very strongly, in this approach to infrastructure, and also because I think this gives a great feel for the team and company culture:

At Neochromosome, we think that infrastructure should be fully managed by Terraform, checked into a Git repo, updated by PRs that are extensively code reviewed, and not change all that often. Our infrastructure is not overly complex, and has even been described as “boring” and we like it that way. Our team builds and operates software that enables and supports cutting-edge, potentially world-changing biological research — and our aim is to do that using the simplest possible parts of AWS. If you’re looking for complicated cutting-edge infrastructure work, this is probably not the role for you. On the other hand, if you like looking at an infrastructure and thinking about what parts of it you could simplify, we should definitely talk!

Just wanted to preserve that somewhere where I’ll be sure to be able to get to it again…

Last week, I posted my planned menu for the week on Mastodon, and then followed up with some photos of the different dishes. Folks seemed to enjoy it, so I thought I’d see if I can’t make this a little bit of a recurring thing – but also do it here on the blog, and link to the recipes, instead of duplicating the same content across a bunch of social sites (and then link from the sites back to here, POSSE style…)

So, here’s this week’s planned menu:

• Sun: braised oxtail, roasted garlic mashed potatoe (shifted from last week)
• Mon: chicken tortilla soup (slow cooker)
• Tue: chicken caesar salad (with leftover chicken from last week)
• Wed: sausages & peppers inna bun
• Thu: roast chicken, veg TBD (maybe brussels?)
• Fri: out
• Sat: out plus prep for posole (hominy, pork)
• Sun: posole rojo plus turkey stock (delayed from last week)

so, it’s been a bit, eh?

once again, i’m feeling the urge to start doing some public writing. currently unsure whether that’s going to express itself here, or over on recipes.genehack.org, or somewhere else; if it ends up being here, i‘m not sure what i’d write about, as my current non-work activities are …scant.

hell, maybe i’ll start updating covid.house again and see if that scratches the itch…

anyway, while i figure out what it is i’m gonna be doing, i figured i would spend part of a holiday monday getting dependencies updated, making sure my deploy toolchain is still working, and so on. if you’re reading this, everything is working.