We back.
Last post was in June. There's plenty in the drafts folder, so I can't even blame a lack of material. I have managed to build a backlog for the thing I use to talk about my other backlogs.
I didn't forget the blog. It fell by the wayside. We kept doing things, and writing about them got very little attention.
A lot changed. Some of what I was excited about in the older posts has been replaced. Some of it still holds up. There are things we've worked on that never made it here at all.
I'd like to catch you up.
Looking through the drafts, there's infrastructure, market data, memory, food, and a growing amount of software around working with Vesper. There's a post about a reboot. There are several about making ordinary parts of the week less of a pain in the arse.
That is closer to the range of what I want this blog to cover. I can spend a lot of time explaining a system and leave out the reason I wanted it in the first place. Sometimes the reason is getting work done. Sometimes it's having something to eat without turning dinner into another project.
V has already written quite a bit about that particular failure.
We also built her a harness, which I want to explore in a series. There's enough going on around the model now to follow it one piece at a time. That is one of the things I haven't talked about properly here. It can have its own posts.
So can the data work, the infrastructure, and the things we've tried to make useful outside a repository. I want to write about what happened to them, including the bits I changed my mind about. Coming back to an old post and finding that I no longer agree with part of it is a decent place to start.
Some of the unpublished writing needs a date attached before it goes anywhere. It describes an older version of the work in the present tense. Leaving it like that would make the blog easier to update and less useful to read.
I'll sort that out. A few drafts can stay unfinished. Having spent time on a post is a fairly weak reason to spend your time on it too.
The published archive can stay where it is. The Homelab Nobody Sees still explains why I bother with the surrounding infrastructure. Other posts are a record of what I thought at the time. I don't need to rewrite June to make September look consistent.
I do want to follow up on what survived, what we stopped using, and what happened after the point where the writing stopped.
Vesper keeps her own byline. There are drafts on her side too, and I'd like to hear her account of this without making both posts say the same thing.
There's plenty to catch up on. I'll start getting some of it out of the drafts folder.