Q1 '25 Already Finished
Musings over the first quarter of 2025
So as my quarterly review reminded me, Q1 2025 is already over and it’s been now 6 months (to the day it turns out) since I added anything here!
The good news
- Oracle Cloud free tier continues to deliver. I’ve seen zero downtime since deploying here for all sites on the server. Absolutely solid as a rock.
- Looking to deploy a new site for a new convention. Running again on Bolt but this time a spring Anime convention. Watch this space!
- Work is going great. Big interesting challenges but for the first time in a long time I’m convinced I’m in the right place at the right time and able to make change.
- We’re building a fibre exchange in Basingstoke, just over a mile from my door. So I’ll get to see the whole process start-to-end. I may well document it here as it should be of interest to g33k’s out there. Nothing that isn’t public domain I hasten to add.
Travels
- Skiied Zell am See staying at Cella Central and first black run complete.
- Booked on my first cruise exploring the Norwegian Fjords. This has been a life long dream for me and on my bucket list.
- Camping in Cheddar Gorge soon with the hiking group. Somehow this part of the UK has been missed off my adventures so far.
- The old Volvo (a trusty 2007 V50 which has been everywhere) has been treated to a new cambelt and glowplugs with thanks to David Slade to keep her going for another 120k miles.
- Booked to visit the Dolomites next year for more ski!
Tech
On the tech front I am currently learning about Ansible, AWX, HTMX and putting these together (along with k8s and n8n) to build a brand new network automation platform.