Notes on 2025W33

It has been a while since I wrote any weeknotes. Hi! I’m still alive. Life is keeping me busy and I find it difficult to fit in writing and sharing things sometimes.

I had a goal this year of posting weeknotes like this on a roughly weekly cadence. I did not keep up. I got so frustrated with myself that my brain literally became this penguin and I stopped posting altogether.

This is all totally arbitrary and avoidable. And yet. Life is busy, the politics are shit, existing while trans is a constant source of stress. Maybe I owe myself some slack, right? Unfortunately, slack is not something I’m good at granting myself.

Tech Mastodon was abuzz this week about the new that GitHub will be folded into the AI group at Microsoft. I have been meaning to move off of GitHub for a little while ago, and this kicked me over the edge. I set up a Forgejo instance over at source.erynwells.me to host my code going forward and migrated everything over there. Maybe one day I’ll write more about this.

I also figured out how to get my VPS to mail me periodic emails of system status through FreeBSD’s periodic system. I discovered that I get almost 1200 unauthorized login attempts against my system every day. Wtf. Here’s a small snippet of the attempts.

postgres    30 attempts
ubuntu      31 attempts
test        36 attempts
debian      43 attempts
user        64 attempts
admin       124 attempts

1156        total attempts

To my surprise, root is not among the attempted usernames.

Did you know peacocks can shoot laser beams? Neither did I. I think this kicks them up about eighteen notches on the “Metalest bird” scale.

Someone tooted in my vicinity about Terminal Trove, a website that “curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.” Right up my alley.

Politics continues to suck in the United States. A few articles (of a great many) that stood out:

Impeachment is a Duty. Keep shouting about the house being on fire while the house continues to be on fire.

There are a lot of bills moving through state houses that limit access to gender-transition-related care, and seems a lot of these bills are flying under the radar.

It’s not just burnout asks us to consider where we derive meaning in our careers, to stay mindful of how much is actually fucked about the current world order, and to cut ourselves some slack for the lethargy and demotiviation many of us are feeling.