Learned enough about GitHub Actions today to confirm my suspicions that I don’t like them. Feels like some weird design decisions and things that were counterintuitive or overly verbose.

GitLab-CI fits my mental model much better.

I needed to write a script to scrape a webpage and download some files based on the contents. I reached for my favorite tool for this (Python) but needed to google some things to refresh my memory about some library usage. Started getting frustrated that it wasn’t working…

Decided, boss keeps telling me to use AI. So Claude Sonnett and I wrote a python script together today. I definitely needed to keep an eye on it to coach it to do what I really wanted. And found edge cases that I asked it to fix as I tested it. I had to leave early for an appointment, but the script was written and worked before I left. Sans Claude, it would not be done. I’m still a little gray beady about these things, but I get it.

It still doesn’t make me feel any better though +harumph+

Why is it that every time we have problems with the HVAC in the house, it’s in the winter, in the middle of the night, on the weekend?

Since it’s not horrendously cold, we toughed the weekend out and they are coming this afternoon (so I could avoid an emergency call fee).

“You need a real name. Like Nick. Nick’s your buddy. Nick’s a guy you can have a beer with. Nick doesn’t mind if you puke in the back of his car.”

How many years ago did I hear @niqdanger quote this, but didn’t know what it was from… Until tonight. Mind blown.

#projectmediaserver had hit a snag. It’s called “you’re not supposed to fill it”.

Starting to research what my v2.5 or v3.0 options are, including but not limited to:
* add some kind of expansion enclosure via eSATA or USB3 to the Synology
* Get a second four bay NAS and cross mount one to the other
* Upgrade the existing NAS via replacing with a 6 or 8 bay
* Build a new custom ‘NAS pc’ and potentially NFS existing NAS

No clear option and all potentially costly, but I still have movies and shows to add and Jellyfin has been a very wife-able solution. Also concerned about the Synology changes with ‘only approved hard drives from us’ so not sure I’d want to continue to support them in my solution.

Still mulling things over.