Folksonomy: dayjob

Working on an old project that uses TinyMCE for writing product descriptions. Most of the descriptions consist of paragraphs and lists, so I'm thinking I'll drop TinyMCE in favour of using Markdown. Been testing league/html-to-markdown and it seems to be working fine for this use case.

I was asked to find a bunch of spooky sound effects for a charity Haunted Walk event at work. I figured it would be much better to have an app for that, so I created a creepy SFX soundboard as a PWA. It's kind of silly, but it was fun to work on. I used the Dracula theme, which is not just for Halloween!

I have spent today mostly writing Sass/CSS. Maybe it's just me, but it takes me a while to mentally switch to working with front-end stuff; even more so when I've mostly been working on back-end stuff. I find there is much more freedom to experiment and play on the front-end, and this can take time, which makes me feel like I am going slow. I guess I need to remind myself that it is OK to take my time.

Released a PWA today. It did not work as well in the real world as it did under test conditions. I think I'm going to have a busy week ahead trying to problem solve a few issues.

Just found myself writing a function named damage_by_plant. It has nothing to do with angry plants.

Tomorrow, I've been tasked with taking some drone photos. Our regular drone pilot is away on paternity leave. I've never flown a drone before, so I've just taken it outside for a rehearsal flight. IMHO, the hardest part of flying a drone is figuring out how to switch the bloody thing on! Also, the DJI Mini 3 is an incredible bit of technology.

The day job has disabled OpenVPN connections in favour of using IKEv2. Took me a minute to get it working under Debian using strongSwan. VPN vendor provided zero instructions for Linux, however Windows and macOS set-up instructions were well documented, naturally.

I'm covering support today and it looks like there might be a drive failure on one of our SQL servers. Almost entirely sure that I cannot fix this remotely.

My team at work was awarded some cash for being awesome, so we spent the money wisely and invested in a Street Fighter 2 Capcom Legacy Championship Edition Cabinet for the office.

Fixing another old site to run without errors under PHP 8.2. Mostly seeing notices about dynamic properties, so nothing too bad so far.