My sister (who lives several continents away) sent me a huge LEGO pirate ship . The set number 31367 31387 for those interested. I spent the evening building with the help of my 13 year old. I also took two or three drams.
I have no regrets.
Edit2: thanks for the birthday wishes. :-)
Many years ago, I wrote a Laravel app that helps me track my workouts. Many commercial services did not (and still do not) allow me to enter some information that I consider relevant, so when I switched to a job that required some Laravel knowledge, I wrote this logging app that allows me to import Strava workouts and add my own stuff to them.
Last weekend I switched Linux distributions on my main laptop (Tuxedo OS to Fedora - huge improvement). One last job that I still needed to do, was to migrate my web app.
On Tuxedo OS, I had simply installed Apache, MariaDB and PHP. This time, I wanted to containerize the app in order to reduce the number of running services.
I had some trouble with SELinux. The containers started fine, but refused to read my configuration files. I also had some trouble with Podman not playing nice with my compose.yaml file, so for now, I simply use Docker.
To my mild suprise, the container feels snappier than my previous setup.
The house has been thoroughly decorated by the wife and kids. I found my spot on the couch to be vandalized like this.
It sat on the bottom of the balcony door. As it was MDF, is was warped, dirty and possibly quite moldy due to our humid climate.
I replaced it with a piece of hardwoord. As my electric saw broke last year and I have not replaced it yet, I had to use the old handsaw and that went quite fast too.
I gave the new baseboard a layer of primer and a layer of white paint.
It fit snugly in the gap below the balcony door and the screw holes were perfectly measured and placed. Installing it took all of two minutes.
The old one was hard plastic and over 20 years old. Pieces started falling off and it is also a bit too small for a family with children. The new one is made of bamboo and is way bigger.
...or rather the woodwork around them. It was a DIY job that I was not looking forward to. The steps are covered in carpet, so it proved particularly challenging not to make a mess. Before doing the actual painting, I had to repair several minor scuffs and scratches.
The end result is quite decent.
