This week has been busy, and the upcoming weekend will be short as I will be traveling for work this Sunday.
Happy reading, and until next week.
- My week started a bit rough sleep-wise because my body was still recovering from my Austria trip. While we didn’t do any significant après-ski events, snowboarding for three full days and over 100 kilometers makes you tired at my age.
- I waited until Wednesday to restart my running exercises. I managed to continue running on Thursday and Friday morning, bringing me to a total of 99.4 kilometers in January. While I hadn’t set any running goals for this month (other than going out in the dark), I am happy to complete 20 kilometers more than in January 2024.
- I posted three landscape pictures from our trip during the week. All three photos were taken with my recently bought Ricoh GR IIIx camera.
- I hosted a team offsite in our Rotterdam office on Tuesday and Wednesday. During these sessions, my team and I discussed product strategy for the next fiscal year. We had candid conversations and some very bright ideas about what we want to do next year. The Senior Director I recruited earlier this month joined the sessions, and she will take over from here, allowing me to focus on other things with my team.
- I had ‘fun’ optimizing my kid’s school laptops on Monday night. My daughter had lost her master password to her 1Password vault, and my son more or less bricked his Dell laptop by installing all sorts of software on it. Recovering my daughter’s master password was easy; I had saved it in my Vault. Recovering my son’s laptop started quickly by reinstalling Windows 11, but it became complicated because Microsoft forces you to use a Microsoft account to create an online user. A Google search on bypassing this part of the setup (the bypass isn’t in the UI) led me to this article on Tom’s Hardware on installing a local-only account.
- I played with my Home Assistant setup on Wednesday night. I created an integration between Home Assistant and a bot account I made on my self-hosted Mastodon instance. This is more about playing around with APIs than anything else. Home Assistant Bot, for example, sends a message when an airplane passes above my house. It’s not very useful, but it was still fun to create.
