Week Notes 24#13

A four-day week ahead of the Easter weekend.

• Enjoyed attending the GitHub OSPO Advisory Board, learning about cool stuff being done at GitHub and OSPOs around the world
• On Thursday, went to see James Acaster in Nottingham for his Heckler's Welcome tour, which was very good!
  • We'd forgotten that we'd booked it until a week or so ago
  • Cookie was mostly OK on her own for the evening
  • At the end, James mentioned he'd got through roughly 40% of his planned content, due to tangents and distractions off the back of heckling
  • Some good mix of deep chats (related to therapy and his realisations about his life) as well as funny tangents, zany stories and thought it was a pretty cool that at the end he mentioned that it "doesn't matter if [he] enjoyed the show", and that instead he's here for us, and not to centre himself
• Pizza night was a lot better, as Anna's toppings were all available, but mine wasn't quite, but I had a good backup to substitute to make it a good pizza nonetheless
• Now it's Easter week, we've started having our Easter Eggs 😋
• An interesting (and slightly spicy) thread on /r/Nottingham about salary expectations for jobs
• Created wm to send webmentions from a given URL (given the webmention CLI doesn't seem to make it easy for arbitrary URLs), and then found that I did it just over a month ago, but hadn't pulled the code on my laptop 😹
• One night I went to let Cookie out and a black cat was chased away, incidentally it was not Morph, which I knew because Morph then came in, so not sure if he had a matching friend, or what
• After several months of working towards it, finally was able to get my first mythic type for Cat Snack Bar
• Got back to Ring Fit Adventure, after meaning to definitely since the start of the year
  • I'm up to day 111 on it, and it's a lot harder than I remember - every day is squat day 💪
• Still can't seem to download Apex Legends, and am tempted to just uninstall it and then retry
• Very happy that the Gopher Slack is finally getting back to allowing threads in #general, one of the biggest pain points of it, and makes it so incredibly hard to have discussions
• Got round to replying to some messages across various Slacks, which was a big weight on my mind
• Had a very excitable afternoon one day with Cookie, with us both playing hide and seek in the house, and then sneaking in/out of the living room so she couldn't get to me and had to keep running around
• Had a pretty good sandwich shop, and a very good brownie 😋
• The xz backdoor
  • It's been very interesting, both the backdoor itself, and the means it's taken to be shipped
  • I took the opportunity to blog about how dependency-management-data and OpenSSF Scorecard could provide a lil' bit of insight into places that may be affected by a similar issue
    • Especially as it was within a couple of hours of announcement, and I wanted to monopolise on timing, but I know some of the chatter online talked about all the SCA platforms saying "use our tools, it'd help you avoid this" so 😅
  • There's also been some big things in there around OSS sustainability - leading to maintainers that don't burnout and then arbitrarily bring co-maintainers onboard who want to do bad things
• Anna and I had a nice walk around Blidworth woods with Carol and Juno and Cookie
  • There was a dog that was lost from its owner, but luckily they came to find it - Cookie wasn't at all happy when I tried to get the dog's attention to try and get it on lead 😅
• Started the internal team handovers, which went well and had some good discussion
• Continued work towards oapi-codegen's triaging of old issues, as well as working towards the big ol' documentation revamp
• Morph's spent some time in the living room which has been nice
• Sad that Five Guys no longer does Reece's Peanut Butter Cup, but managed to approximate it with a peanut butter and chocolate mix
• Netflix appears to have lost history for most of the week's media, so I've had to go on memory for some of these 😹
• A weekend of 🥱

Watched:

• The Crown
• Friday Night Dinner
• Love
• Memento
  • Very good recommendation from my episode of Changelog & Friends - no spoilers, but 🔥
• Taskmaster
• Rick and Morty