Sunday, Invoiceplane

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+title: "Week 2, Sunday: InvoicePlane"
+date: 2024-08-11T20:21:19+02:00
+Tags: []
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+---
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+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/raggajungle.png" alt="Credit: Dub Deebu Day, Youtube" >}}
+
+The kitchen this morning still smelled of _Kramiek_. In the morning I took out another pre-baked
+boule of white bread, and dropped it in the oven with a timer to be done at 11:55am; that way, at
+lunch both Marina and Quinn have a few slices of tasty raisin bread with _Galet de la Loire_, a soft
+and flowery crust cow cheese which is distinguished by its shape similar to that of the pebbles that
+border the banks of the Loire. Like the Tuffeau stone that forms the facades of the castles of the
+loire, the Galet de la Loire is ivory color and can become straw yellow when the refining is pushed.
+Its paste is creamy and reveals a typical taste as well as a great diversity of aromas, with woody
+notes. I made soft-boiled eggs and eat a few slices of the non-gross white bread.
+
+In the afternoon, I cleaned up my workroom, vacuumed and took out the trash. I do intend to keep my
+room at a bit less of a pigsty style going forward. The main task for the afternoon is to upgrade my
+Invoiceplane instance from PHP 7.4 and version 1.15, to version 1.16.1 which wants to run
+specifically on PHP 8.1. I mess around a little bit with _PHP Composer_, but in the end I surprise
+myself with how straight forward it is:
+
+*   Take snapshot of _mariadb_ database. Take snapshot of whole VM. Make backup of invoiceplane
+    and the overrides that I have applied (like custom templates, some sorting changes, etc)
+*   For each PHP 7.4 package, install the same PHP 8.1 variant.
+*   Uninstall all PHP 7.4 packages, and let Apache now use modphp8.1.
+*   Move `/var/www/html` to `/var/www/html-1.15.1` and unzip `v1.16.1.zip`
+*   Update all _composer_ dependencies
+*   Move my config files back, and run a one-off `/index.php/setup` which detects that I have an
+    existing install, does the database schema changes a few other bits and bobs, and then just lets
+    me log in. 
+
+```
+13:16 🔥 nginx0-nlams2/nginx:billing.ipng.ch | HTTP CRITICAL:
+         HTTP/1.1 200 OK - pattern not found - 1758 bytes in 0.075 second response time
+13:36 ✅ nginx0-nlams2/nginx:billing.ipng.ch | HTTP OK:
+         HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 3060 bytes in 0.232 second response time
+```
+
+So what I originally budgetted the whole day for, was kind of done in about 45 minutes. I spent some
+time putting the templates and overrides back, spot check a few invoices and cronjobs (automailers
+for recurring invoices are an awesome feature), and consider it good to go!
+
+I tell Fred about this good news, and he asks if _Kees_ supports pulling PeeringDB data for private
+interconnects in addition to IXPs. I didn't think of that, but a quick refactor later and all AS
+numbers are looked up in PeeringDB, regardless if on a PNI or internet exchange - that is useful to
+track  things like prefix and as-set filters, max prefix limits, and so on. We both roll this out -
+he does at IP-Max and I do it at IPng. It's nice to have some spare time in the day, to help a
+friend!
+
+I end up mucking about with OBS a little bit more; Quinn suggests that it'd be a nice touch to have
+a webcam also on the microphone boom, so I grab an old one from the cupboard, and puzzle a way to
+connect it properly to the microphone arm. You guessed it - Fusion260 is whipped out and I draw what
+looks like a tiny steamtrain (see the picture below). The bottom (square) block fits snugly in the
+boom, and the cylinder fits in the webcam hinge to allow it to tilt up and down. A six minute print!
+
+Meanwhile, Marina starts dressing a few square pizza doughs (not Dougie-based, I should fix that..),
+and I make mine as a _Quattro Formaggio_ with gorgonzola, cheddar, mozzarella and some leftover
+random cheesy bits from the freezer. I put what I think is garlic and pepper on the top, but it
+turns out to be mostly salt (with garlic and pepper), so my pizza comes out nicely baked but salty
+as a sailor on the Bering Sea. I eat most of it but already arm myself with a liter of water to not
+implode on myself.
+
+I get to choose the movie tonight, and I start rummaging through the collection. Marina suggests to
+take a look at a _Keep_-list on which we write down finds or tips from friends. I choose [[Poor
+Things](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230458/)], a film with Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone and Mark
+Ruffalo based on a novel by Alasdair Gray.  It's definitely unique - certainly not for young
+children or sex-negative people. I enjoy the story and the chracters development. But it's a very
+freaky premise. For the right audience, I would recommend!
+
+During the movie I slurp down two liters of water, and in all this water I let some blue sharks and
+green frogs splash about. There's also a few mushrooms, which also go down the hatch. At the end of
+the movie, I have good news and bad: the _good_ news is that I no longer feel like the victim of
+reverse osmosis, the _bad_ news is that I need to pee like a rushing racehorse at the Kentucky
+Derby.
+
+With that out of the way, and all the things done that I set out to do today, I retire to the
+basement, and rewire the microphones and cameras into a set of USB hubs so that Jessica can leverage
+them in all their resolution and glory. Quinn mentioned that the picture is a bit red, so I fix the
+white balance to 4400K and drop a little bit of saturation on the cameras. I make a few test
+recordings, and have fun.
+
+After all that techno yesterday at the Zurich Street Parade, tonight I'm going to listen to Ragga
+Jungle drum and bass, and I settle on [[Dub Deebu
+Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Rx2lsD_vE)].
+
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