• Monday

    • Ordered new round of live aquaria: blood red fire shrimp, arrow crab, hector’s goby, smith’s blenny, red fairy anthias, pajama cardinalfish. The red parrot pirate plunder october event is pretty cool; solve a riddle (the answer is a creature) then you can buy that animal at a discount.
    • Uber rolling out in-ride ads (“journey” ads).
    • Sunak likely replacing Truss.
    • Wrestler fought a grizzly bear: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/22/wyoming-wrestlers-bear-attack
    • VPN alternatives.
      • Remember, a VPN is a hardware solution. You’re routing traffic through another server, with encryption, to establish a private network on top of another (likely unencrypted) one.
      • SDP (Software Defined Perimeter) is the software alternative.
      • Zero Trust Network = you still have to auth, even if you’re inside the network (just like the externals).
    • Finished HOTD. Loved it. Overall I give the edge to it over Rings of Power. The latter wins visuals, but I would say thrones wins everything else.
      • Love the “say things without saying them” approach of HOTD and how much more mature the depiction is. Compare Daemon telling Rhaenyra silently that Luke is dead in the finale, back turned and legs weakening until a fierce turnaround, vs the Southlands Morder reveal at the end of the LOTR episode.
    • SBSC. Focused on build/deploy and the separation of dev/prod today.
      • Remember that you can save a ton of docker build time by added a volume for your files. Then it does not have to rebuild when any file changes.
      • Fixed the “network.external.name is deprecated in favor of network.name” issue, it’s just syntax.
      • Remember to –remove-orphans when changing the names of existing services in docker-compose.
      • Switched around the entrypoints to make consistent between prod and dev. Python setuptools entrypoint script -> bash script to call uwsgi -> uwsgi config to define parameters -> python module uwsgi which runs app.
      • All of that is called from makefile -> docker compose -> docker image -> entrypoing.
      • Now the ONLY commands (makefile entrypoints) that are env-specific are the UP/DOWN ones. And these are also the only targets that use compose. The others just need docker, no composition necessary.
        • EXCEPTION: the execs that require psql auth, since the compose file contains the env/secrets.
      • Changed docker-compose to docker compose everywhere (mostly makefile).
      • Updated the clearbit logos from DO to AWS.
      • Could add docker scan <img> to the test targets later. This uses snyk to check security on your built images.
      • The dev image is 1.91GB. The prod image is 1.82GB.
      • DinD = Docker in Docker. It’s an image that contains the binaries necessary to use docker (nested), like docker and docker compose etc.
      • If you rebuilt a new image with the same name/tag, it will change the old to <none> in docker image ls. Make sure to tag your images so you get proper history.
      • Added .git to .dockerignore
    • Most of Biden’s IRA goes into effect in 2024. 15% min tax for >1b revenue companies.
    • Instacart (top 5 private) is no longer planning to IPO this year (good).’
    • Money moves.
      • About 2.5k/3k for business credit $500, ~3wks left. Paid (zelle transfer) credit from business checking. Tested redeem-rewards.
      • Redeemed citi and chase prime, all direct deposit. Left ultimate rewards alone.
      • Current citi includes home insurance, next citi includes auto insurance (both annual lumps). Remember citi also has monthly equinox, butcherbox, etc. Both chase statements are small.
      • Liquidated a bit (VYM @ -5%) for mortgage.
    • Trying different breathing apps.
      • Features I don’t need: structure guidance (I’ve been doing a long time), controllable breath segment (I self pace), motivation (don’t need).
      • Features I need: retention timer (I want to just tap something so I can keep eyes closed and focus), history (I want to see stats/progress).
      • Using the youtube wimhof guided breathing exercise has the features I don’t need (anymore) and doesn’t have the features I need.
      • The wim hof iphone app (WHM) is ~$40 annually for ALL the features. But after testing it today, I discovered the retention timer and stats/history are free!
      • There are a bunch of other apps, but I don’t need to try those. This should have everything I need.