Hacking on hangovers, and a breakup…

- Week of 11-17 December.
- Monday, I sent Derek Sivers an email, backups, late afternoon La Vie supper with Heleen, ended the relationship with Heleen. Breakups are not fun.
- Tuesday, not the best morning, walked to the office, server install – with some friends – for a friend, figured I needed some new ssh keys – ed25519 format, played with Salt.
- Wednesday, made some ascii art, office, afterwork burger at Jerry’s with Georg, tinkered with Salt Cloud and libvirt.
- Be resourceful. Walk through walls.
- Thursday, gym, sunset walk, read a book about Salt.
- Everything is virtual now.
- Friday, office – new software release day, tinkered with virt-manager, evening out with Georg, Roast & Co dinner in Heritage Square – good food, we walked to The Secret Gin Bar – bumped into Christo – I had a heart remedy G&T, Aces & Spades.
- We pretty much built a full OSS/BSS system for Octotel over the last 10 months. I think it’s kinda cool. Still some parts to automate, but it supports all the business processes now, with web interfaces for staff and ISPs, all via REST APIs.
- I wish Paul Carr would write something profound again.
- Be relentlessly optimistic. Calm, technical, relentlessly resourceful, relentlessly optimistic, infinite learners.
- Saturday, a disprin and rehydrat kinda morning, tinkered with DPDK in a VM, Van Hunks with Georg, Anton, Diabi, Claus and Michael – until they closed.
- Had a few nice flow states this week. Learning and creating. I think I understand Salt, KVM, LVM, SR-IOV, DPDK, VPP, FRR, Docker and VNFs a bit better now. I built a linux kernel again, for the first time since maybe 2009, it creates about 10GB of binaries, crazy.
- Sunday, more disprins and rehydrat, more NFV hacking – deep nerding – lost some time, White Russians at La Vie with Georg.
- Holiday soon.
Have a fun week, crazy kids.