Hack 47 – March 2024

After briefly considering dropping the free tier of the Remote Hackday and only offering premium subscriber options, it was decided to scupper the whole thing and just continue to lose massive amounts of money with this dubious enterprise.

Things people did

• Ryan was scripting a backup of his iCloud Photos onto his Synology NAS now he’s replaced the failed disks with SSDs.

• Adam managed to miss the “regular” session, due to baby dictator machinations, but then snuck in a few hours in the evening to update all of the terraform repos for spinning up veilid nodes in free tier public clouds to include a cron job to automatically update things. It’s possibly that just enabling unattended upgrades would have been easier/better/etc, but he did not do that.

• Ben did some work under-the-radar on his vanilla JS rebellion against Typescript and added some “tests or whatever”.

• Naomi joined the channel, which I’m going to declare a kind of hack, and therefore in scope for this recap!