Life do be life-ing
I’ve had some good realisations over the past few weeks about the sheer amount of things that I have going on in my life. I think it’s important to be able to reflect and see that these things are indeed going on and are real. Instead of thinking to myself that I’m not doing enough / not being good enough. Just that insanely toxic, hustle culture mindset. Every major facet of my life I would say, has something going on, and I feel like I’m operating at near 100% all the time.
Some delayed updates on dipping my toe back into EVE
I should have posted this a while ago, but I’ve been busy with other things.
I’m trying to get all my ducks in a row in New Eden. There’s definitely some more plate spinning going on at first than I expected. But I think that’s to be expected. I already have one of my first orders, which fortunately the customer is not in a huge rush. I imagine I will have some screwups so I appreciate the time being given. I’m also trying to learn some new tools, just to give myself the best foundation for success. Some look quite promising so I am happy with that.
Getting started with Aperture by Tailscale on a Saturday afternoon
Recently I had the chance to give a demo on Tailscale in my workplace. It was also an opportunity to get some practice in before the Tailscale London community meet up event that happened on the 11th of May. I’ve given demos before in work, but I had never publicly spoken before to a room predominately full of strangers. To say it was intimidating, is an understatement! Work gave me the opportunity to do a test run of the presentation, which I jumped at the chance to do so. But it raised an interesting predicament.
I have finally reached my limit
I’m not sure yet if I will share this on LinkedIn, namely due to the slight irony in sharing it there and what the post will talk about. But in the last few weeks, I’ve finally reached my limit with regards the state of the Internet. If you’ve read my posts before, you understand that I do a certain degree of self hosting. So I would self host some services but not all. Recent events have almost pushed me into a radicalisation phase, for lack of a better phrase, with regards self hosting.
New Eden my beloved
I’ve been enjoying winning at EVE Online for a while now, so deciding to go back and play the game again does feel a bit odd. I think there’s just truly nothing like it, for what it offers. Add the heavy sci-fi going on and it can often be like heaven. Eventually I tend to peter out again, which I think is a mix of simply ‘getting my fill’ and then experiencing the effect of playing that game solo, loneliness. Playing solo is a deliberate choice because these days, I’m no longer a teenager with near infinite free time and I don’t want to commit to another corporation or alliance. There were those who I used to play with, and they don’t play anymore, therefore I didn’t play anymore.
Starting a new series and a restart of life in New Eden
Recently I’ve been having a moment with regards blogging and like, RSS? It’ll be another post, but I have been starting to collect RSS feeds and putting them in a reader, curating my own part of the internet. I don’t think a tech related thing has given me as much joy as that project has. But anyway, tangent. I think I was kinda keeping my website and by extension blog, more tech focused. Which is fine, but it’s also my personal website and while I don’t think I want to deep dive my entire daily life here, I do want to share more.
Spooky Sundays
On Sunday, March 22 2026 I woke up to some messages in a Discord server I frequent that Trivy, the popular security tool often used to scan container images, suffered a supply chain attack. That attack, among other things, affected their GitHub Action, which I happen to use in my pipelines. The window of time where it was reported that the Action was compromised, I believed to have included time where my pipelines using the Action, would have ran. So I had to assume that I was compromised. What did I do then?
Never thought I would pay for search
Besides say, the obvious point in my life of trying to minimise my exposure to Google, search is one of those things that’s rather hard to avoid. Sure, for years I’ve had DuckDuckGo (DDG) as my default, but I was just as accustomed to doing the !g bang to just send my search to Google. It always felt like I couldn’t quite have full confidence in the results for DDG. Maybe it was because I knew behind the scenes they were using Bing’s indexes. So, even if I searched something with DDG, if I did not find what I felt I was looking for, I would immediately revert to Google Search.
Taking a look back
I thought I might try my hand at an end of year review, primarily for myself as I want to be able to look back at the year to see what I’ve done. I likely won’t share this broadly on social media since it’s a bit more personal. But I’m still happy to publish something so if one manages to stumble upon it, fair enough.
