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+title: "Week 2, Wednesday: Pins, pins, pins"
+date: 2024-08-07T20:21:19+02:00
+Tags: []
+Categories: []
+draft: false
+---
+
+# Morning
+
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/fluidfield.png" alt="Credit: Fluidfield, YouTube" >}}
+
+I may as well stop having a _Morning_ section on my journal. Although I didn't go to bed super late
+yesterday (I think it was about 01:45 or so), I did end up sleeping quite long today. I got up at
+11:30 or so, just in time for lunch :)
+
+# Afternoon
+
+I made a really nice leek soup yesterday, and today it was time to consume it! Although I forgot to
+take pictures, the soup has fried mini veal dumplings and stilton cheese and it's super delicious. I
+ate two bowls, Marina ate one, and then she continued with some leftover beans and potatoes from
+yesterday. After lunch, I went to the basement to continue the creation of the _schwag_ for FrysIX:
+yesterday I made 60pcs of [[IPng](https://ipng.ch)] branded (fridge) magnets, and today I continued
+with 60pcs of 38mm pins. I really enjoy doing this type of work - each unit takes maybe 20 seconds
+or so, which means the exercise takes about 25min end to end - there's something about the
+monotonous placement of the outer shell, the cellophane, the 2" round printed inside, and then the
+back side (either magnet or pin), that is rewarding to me. I always had it: 20y ago when we lived in
+the Netherlands, I would also enjoy printing DCD labels, and sticking them onto the discs and
+printing, cutting and putting paper inlays into jewel cases. Is that weird?
+
+Meanwhile, Marina was upstairs looking for more pin-making-resources. She found 59mm pins (these are
+38mm), and they come in a variety of types, fronts, and back plates, including one that is both a
+magnet as well as a bottle opener. I get an idea -- wouldn't it be fun to have a bunch of pins with
+RFID tags in them? I find the nTAG21x from NXP, and order a few rolls of 20x10mm and 35mm round
+units which have either 144 bytes or 504 bytes of storage. Cool! Will see if I can McGuyver these
+into schwag later.
+
+I'm going to visit NL a little bit in September. I thought it'd be fun to have an IPng logo on the
+car, and seeing as we just got a Cameo v5 delivered (_quelle surprise_!), we took a few pictures
+with an assorted set of colored vinyl and I posted a Twitter and Mastodon poll to see what the
+Internet thinks:
+
+*   [Twitter - https://x.com/IPngNetworks/status/1821179665928560873](https://x.com/IPngNetworks/status/1821179665928560873)
+*   [Mastodon - https://ublog.tech/@IPngNetworks/112921027967806983](https://ublog.tech/@IPngNetworks/112921027967806983)
+
+***Please vote!***
+
+Marina spends an inordinate amount of time on the pins website - it's super flaky and keeps on
+throwing errors. But after a few hours (!) she finally places an order and informs of of the damage.
+It's not too bad! But the RFID experiment will be driving up the price, for sure :)
+
+# Evening
+
+There is no apero today (whoa), but instead Marina offers a nice glass of _Barocco Reale_ from
+_Veccia Torre_. Are you proud of me, or disappointed (I'm asking Max, Niccolo, Marco, Marco and
+Giovanni)? To pair with the wine, Marina made pulled beef (from the stockpile we got at _Aligro_)
+with Pappardelle pasta (my choice!). We topped it off with some freshly grated Grana Padano. It was
+heavenly.
+
+Marina says: "I didn't do jack shit today, so no TV for me: I need a _knutselavond_!". I'm down for
+that, as I am also in need of some _nerd_. My evening is spent downstairs watching _The Last of Us_
+on Jessica's left screen, and computering on the right.
+
+In the evening, on Mastodon @kwf points out that the micromirror is going strong - and I show the traffic of
+the machine at the DDLN colo in AS8298. It's nicely di-urnal, which is a good sign that it's
+serving timezone-local folks. It peaks at 700Mbps or so, and has a daily of 400Mbps. Nice!
+
+With this website, the new [[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)] website, and some older ones like the [[2022
+Roadtrip NOSE](https://2022roadtripnose.weirdnet.nl/)] all being built via the _Drone_ CI/CD, the
+2vCPU and 4GB virtual machine that is [[git.ipng.ch](https://git.ipng.ch)] is running out of steam.
+Specifically the checkout of Git LFS objects and websites in the single digit gigabyte range, make
+it really work. So I decide to move off a couple of docker services on that machine, to another one.
+
+**docker0.frggh0.net.ipng.ch** is now the proud owner of:
+*    [[PictShare](https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/pictshare)] from HaschekSolutions. I spend
+     some time (re)skinning this one to IPng colors and logo.
+*    [[Golinks](https://github.com/x-proj/go-links)] which is a fork of
+     [[kellegous/go](https://github.com/kellegous/go)], and it's uptodate.
+*    [[Netbox](https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-docker)] which I upgrade to v4.0.8 while
+     I'm at it.
+
+And for good measure, I bump Gitea's VM memory to 8GB and 8vCPU, and reboot the instance. I also
+notice that e-mail isn't working, which I track down to a faulty `.env` setting. All works now!
+
+I'm in maintenance mode, so I also take a look at Mastodon (which is uptodate), and Peertube (which
+is not). I make a VM snapshot of the Peertube instance, and upgrade it from v6.0.4 to v6.2.1. This
+requires me to upgrade node from v19 to v20, and install Python3 PIP. Otherwise, the upgrade goes
+well.  Finally, I take a look at Pixelfed, which by my best knowledge, only my buddy Ramon uses.
+It's also in need of an update (from v0.12.1 to v0.12.3), so I make a snapshot of the VM's disk, 
+and then I use [[idanoo](https://github.com/idanoo/pixelfed-upgrade-script.git)]'s excellent work.
+The upgrade goes down without a hitch, whohoo!
+
+I run out of things to upgrade, so I rummage around Ansible groups a bit, and do an APT upgrade on
+the `smtp`, `nginx`, `border`, `apu`, and `hypervisor` clusters. The thing is: if you claim you're a
+fan of self-hosting, at some point you have to ... self-host :) But no damage done, and a few XP
+earned today.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/IMG_0558.JPG" caption="The magnets were done yesterday, and today the chore is 60pcs of IPng.ch pins!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/IMG_0559.JPG" caption="The pins are going well. Coffee: check!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/IMG_0560.JPG" caption="We randomly try a few hues of green and blue and purple against the (blue) car, to figure out which color contrasts well with it." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/IMG_0561.JPG" caption="Marina and I are curious which color logo would look best on Tessa. Blue? Grey? Red? or Hotpink? Vote in the Mastodon and Twitter posts in today's journal entry!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/IMG_0562.JPG" caption="Marina treats me to some Vecchia Torre wine today - dinner is excellent" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/micromirror.png" caption="On Mastodon, we discuss Micromirrors - the one I'm running at IPng is doing well!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-07/peertube.png" caption="I upgrade Peertube from 6.0.4 to 6.2.1 and all is well with my videos" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}
+