Wednesday

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-title: "Week 4, Wednesday:"
+title: "Week 4, Wednesday: Hotsauce!"
 date: 2024-08-21T21:55:00+02:00
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+
+I started the day with writing a bunch of _NFC_ tags. I'm going to take a bunch of pins with me to
+the upcoming NOG meetings (in Oslo, Piacenza, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona), and I figured I'd add an
+RFID tag to them. The process repetitive just like making the pins is: put sticker on pin, put pin
+on writer, write a record with a URL, select write protection, enter password, write to chip, done!
+
+But, I wanted to be a bit more future proof for the URLs, so I wrote a tiny javascript app (when I
+say tiny, I mean eight lines of javascript), that takes an URI argument, looks it up in a table, and
+redirects the user to that URL. This way, I can write links like
+[[https://ipng.ch/app/go#ntag01](https://ipng.ch/app/go#ntag01)] and then occasionally play around
+with the mapping so that tags produce new redirects without me baving to write new URLs to them. The
+power of symlinks! If you're curious, take a look at the redirector with:
+
+```
+$ curl https://ipng.ch/app/go/index.html
+```
+
+.. and let me know if this is clever or moronic :)
+
+After writing the tags, I took out the trash; from the cleanup session I still have four large trash
+bags, mostly with lighter stuff like foam, plastic, packaging etc. This afternoon, Jean-Paul and
+Nicole (Marina's parents) are going to arrive from Geneva, and they'll be staying two weeks. Marina
+has been making the house tipp-topp shape, I think she'll live up to their standards with room to
+spare! I pitch in by bringing the trash to the municipal dump called _M&uuml;lliland_.
+
+JPH and Nicole come bringing gifts! They went, somewhat randomly, to a farmers market of sorts,
+which turned out to be a chilly exposition. They mentioned that there were some fourty or so vendors
+with peppers, seeds, and hotsauces. And they got me a few! I sampled many of them, and they were
+consistently delicious; not overly spicy, although definitely worth their heatonist. I would say the
+four pots with an assortment of chillies would run a good _Savina_ or _Chocolate Habanero_, but
+mostly the spices and taste was just plain gorgeous.
+
+After JP and Nicole install themselves in the guest room, we sit at the table and have an afternoon
+drink. We show them the _Mattei_ drink we discovered at Sandra and JC's place, but they're in the
+mood for a _Pastis_ so I crack open the bottle of _Henry Bardouin_ I got from my buddy Fred, and we
+debate the ratio a bit. Fred is a 1:5 guy, I'm more of a 1:1 person. JP in the end goes towards a
+1:2 ratio, and enjoys the complex flavor of the pastis. Marina and I swap a dram of red and white
+_Mattei_.
+
+I'm making flatbread for dinner tonight, with _planted_ gyros and veggie fallafel. I've arranged for
+a home made garlic sauce (which turns out quite nice, using _Skyr_ instead of yoghurt), and I
+patiently bake, in a pan, the 12 flat-breads. Marina wanted them thinner this time, while Quinn
+would have preferred them to be thicker so that he could cut a pocket into them. I guess maybe next
+time I'll make eight _smol_ ones and four _thicc_ ones? Either way, they hit the spot!
+
+After dinner, I fall asleep a little bit on the couch, and wake up around 21:30 or so. Marina and I
+watch one episode of _Coppers_, and in the mean time I decide to play with
+[[Immich](https://immich.app/)]. s self-hosted photo and video management solution. I really like
+what I see, with ability to reverse-geocode pics from the EXIF tags, I can sort and search for
+pictures by location, and it also does facial recognition, so I spin up an instance on a beefy
+docker host in Lille, plumb it through on [[photos.ipng.ch](https://photos.ipng.ch/)], for the
+moment only for _trusted testers_, and start an import of my iPhone's photo roll, some 6800 pictures
+and 250 video recordings. It uploads, tags, sorts, and applies the ML filters in only about an hour
+or so, and I see that I'm continuously pulling 400Mbit from my phone to the NGINX in Geneva, and
+over IPng's backbone to the docker host in Lille. Whohoo!
+
+My first impression of Immich is very good. I let the IOS app do background backups of my photos
+over wifi, and the look and feel is very much like Google Photos - one of my all time favorite apps
+on the internet. After completing the import and bulk-learning exercise, indeed the thing identified
+a few dozen faces and clustered them. It's remarkably accurate! I think I'm going to like this app.
+
+Then at 01:00 I am lying in bed and get a little bit of an afterglow from all the hot sauce. Those
+of you who regularly binge hotsauce will know what I mean... 
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-21/IMG_0759.JPG" caption="A roll of nTAG215 stickers, all written and locked" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-21/IMG_0760.JPG" caption="Jean-Paul and Nicole arrived, with gifts from Belgium!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-21/IMG_0761.JPG" caption="We had a good apero today to welcome our guests" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-21/IMG_0762.JPG" caption="The FrysIX 59mm pins are all done, all 90pcs of them" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-21/IMG_0765.JPG" caption="I made flatbread for the plant-based gyros (which, speaking as a meat-eater, is really good)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-21/immich.png" caption="I've installed Immich and imported ~7000 pictures and videos from my iPhone; it's chomping away proving its multithreadedness" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
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