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Finished cleaning up the cabling and getting the Beelink properly installed in the minirack. Overall, I miss the Pis because they looked pretty cool, but I'm not gonna complain: this looks pretty good as well.
The doggo wasn't quite as impressed.
The standalone Proxmox server is basically done at this point, all three DNS servers are online and secure, the Tailscale VM is online after completely forgetting that it was running on one of the Raspberry Pis, and the `authentik` instance that I'm gonna need to work on tomorrow.
So, decided to give #vlang a go for a bit and it's not horrible. Not sure if I'm a fan yet, but it's fast and doesn't fight me too much. I prefer the error handling though, it's damned nice.
(hid the screenshot in the slim chance of anyone still working on AoC)
Okay, I'm done with the SMB2 theme for the time being. Got the chords annotated, tweaked a bit of the tab to make it easier.
Figured I'd post the sheet music/tab for the bassline because it's a fun walk. Also, love anything in the key of C.
After writing some questionable `rust` code for #adventofcode Day 8, I've managed to get the right answers in a reasonable amount of time which has taken far, far longer than I'd care to admit. I'll jump on the Python and Nim solves later because my brain is absolutely fried at the moment.
Solution: https://git.jamesthebard.net/jweatherly/advent-of-code/src/branch/main/2025_rust/day08
A quick comparison using `hyperfine` for some benchmarking on the #adventofcode 2025 Day 1 solution. Not too shabby for any of the solutions, and its interesting to compare them.
Not a bad start, part 2 kinda kicked my ass because reading is really, really hard. I made the assumption that there wouldn't be any spins greater than 99 which was a horrible, horrible assumption to make.
However, not too difficult overall, happy enough with the solve.
The Proxmox cluster upgrade from 8.4 -> 9 went very, very smoothly. Got all of the `pve8to9` warnings handled, and had no issues with migrations to keep all of the VMs up and running. Overall pretty painless.
