I learnt several things from this episode:

• wait longer before laughing
• symptoms are similar to humans
• it's very common, at least in the part of London I live in
• dogs can overdose on weed

A night of waking up every two hours to jog her metabolism and the dog is fine.

• No one cares what your name is and we all remember the name of our dogs. I told someone my name by accident and was corrected on this.

• You must find out whether a dog is good with puppies or not before approaching.

  • Upon discovering a dog is not good with puppies running away is not recommended.

• Every now and then someone will blank you so completely you'll wonder whether you exist.

• It is assumed that if you're a couple with a dog you're married.

We bought a dog backpack.

First Scrubs watch through in a while has begun, it's great still finding jokes that I've missed the first hundred times I watched it. Ted's band is still a highlight, this is their best song by far.

I went to the Oval to watch England's final T20 game before the World Cup. Mark Wood and Jofra Archer are different gravy. The pace is unbelieveable.

I have declared unread email bankruptcy.

The biggest problem I'm having is needing to play sound in a specific room then move it to the devices I want once I've hit play. This would be tolerable if the specific room wasn't the bedroom my partner is sleeping in and the music I want was the shipping forecast for the dog at five in the morning.

I noticed that casting from Pocket Casts instead of playing from the Pocket Casts Sonos plugin gives you lower quality audio so I'm hoping they fix things soon.

The dog can go out for walks now which is game changing, a solution to the zoomies! She is also starting to chew everything in sight a bit less. Just in time for teething.

I'm going to Staff Plus London this year. It's a conference I've wanted to go to for a while but covid scuppered my attempt to attend when I worked at the Financial Times. The tickets are an obscene price which I'm not paying, thankfully.

The fear has well and truly hit me for the Dragon Ride this year. I'm a month behind training and there's no sign of any former fitness returning. It isn't going to be a pleasant day out.

Coldplay is on heavy rotation at the moment, I can only apologise.

This is Rosie:

She is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. She enjoys squeaky toys, dislikes going outside, and occupies herself with chewing my furnishings. We got her on Sunday and have swung between "Why have we done this?" and "This is the best thing ever!" since.

I'm really gonna do it this time, I'm writing an API with Fastify. Wish me luck!

I read Understanding Distributed Systems, it's a good primer for reading Designing Data Intensive Applications.

If you find yourself in the are of Chiddingstone, just North East of Ashdown Forest, go to The Tulip Tree Tea Rooms.

I've pulled the trigger on a pair of Sonos speakers, I will hear only half of a podcast whilst cleaning the house no longer!

The weeks don't get less stressful, going in circles on a bike is the answer.

My old desktop computer is now an Unraid server. The assumption that 10 year old hardware could handle most tasks was a bad one but at least I've managed to replace two raspberry pis with a massive energy hungry computer tower.

Priority one incidents are stressful, especially when they're at 4pm on a Friday.

OS maps has a very loose definition of what a path is - note to self: watch those contour lines. Megan will need a bit of convincing before coming on our next hike. This was our route if you're ever near Tryfan/Ogwen Cottage and fancy a big day out. I have editted in a diversion around the hair raising descent we took down Glyder Fach.

We are in Snowdonia this weekend staying in a quarryman's cottage. The doorframes are very low and I'm having to remember to stoop through them. This has resulted in several solid thwacks to the head. Being tall might help on Hinge but it can't be worth the ever present threat of smashing your head into doorframes.

The purpose of this trip is to meet some Duck Tolling Retriever puppies, which were the strangest mix of cute, sharp, and incontinent.

The ultimate combination of sweets for on the bike: Candy Kittens Shox and dried mango. Shove handfuls into your face at a rate of 60-80 grams per hour.

Tubeless tyres are one of the biggest cons going in bikes. My rear wheel didn't seal on the road and hasn't sealed the two times I've topped up the sealant since getting home. The hole is tiny. Save yourself the effort and throw tubes in.

I've started reading The Staff Engineer's Path. The start takes you through drawing out maps of your organisation. It's an incredibly useful activity I wish I'd done a year ago and will repeat in any future positions. I'm going to read The Manager's Path next to really put myself on the fence with deciding what I want to do with my life.

Simon P sent me another article this week, AWS as a Framework. I also found this on comparing Lambda cold starts between different runtimes.

A new How I write HTTP services in Go dropped.

I've started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's fast paced and engaging; I'm already half-way through. There are overlaps with the landmarks mentioned in The Places in Between which adds to the read.

First big day on the bike on Sunday. The Chilterns are much more rural than Surrey which resulted in a severe lack of cake half way round. Roast at the pub in Hedgerley was good, huge selection of ales, can recommend.

I just moved over to Community Fibre and discovered a gotcha that will cost me about £200 over the next two years.

If you want a public IP, or if you want an IP that's not behind carrier grade NAT (CGNAT), and you're with Community Fibre make sure you get a 500 Mbps package or above. I went for 200 Mbps, waited for three weeks until my Virgin contract ended, discovered this and was told I couldn't get introductory offers after the 14 day grace period. That's an eight pound difference every month for two years that they wouldn't negotiate on at all.

Why would you want a private IP? So that you can forward ports to devices internally. If you're behind the CGNAT you can forward ports on your router's NAT all you like and it won't work because the CGNAT isn't forwarding them to you.

IPv6

If you want to use IPv6 from Community Fibre with your Unifi device, an Ultimate Dream Machine (UDM) in my case, you will have to do some setting tinkering and stay in contact with Community Fibre.

Community Fibre can sometimes have too many MAC addresses registered which "blocks" allowing more to be added to your account. Weird bug but that means you can't get your router to work with IPv6 and you need to contact them to clear them out.

First thing you need to do is enable DHCPv6 and give the router the prefix delegation size which is 48 for Community Fibre. This doesn't seem to be published on their website but is mentioned in a talk they did here with slides here and discussed in this forum post.

You then need to go to the networks you want to have IPv6 and enable it there as well. The settings you want are "Prefix Delegation", enable "Router Advertisement", throw in an IPv6 DNS server of your choice if given the option.

Once you've done all that you now need to do the following:

1. Reboot their modem and the router
2. Wait for your router to provide IPv6 addresses to your devices, NB your IPv4 won't work
3. Disable IPv6 to let the IPv4 work
4. Re-enable IPv6
5. Contact community fibre a second time if your router entry in your client's IPv6 settings it blank because the MAC addresses have been blocked again
6. You're now running on IPv6 (hopefully)

• Day 1: The functional parts of Rust are helpful. Itertools has loads of additional functionality for them, such as tuple_windows.

• Day 2: Another opportunity for iterators. fold()ing an iterator is very similar to Array.prototype.reduce() in JavaScript.

• Day 3: An opportunity to use bitwise operators that flew so far over my head it was barely visible. Time to read more about bit shifting and bitwise operators. The borrow checker made things difficult today.

• Day 3: I saw a solution that used partition() to turn an iterable into two vectors based upon a function producting a boolean.

• Day 3: BitXor (^ in Rust) is a fun opertor is you want to invert a bit based on a boolean. I went straight in with & which was the wrong thing.

• Day 4: Vectors have a retain method which takes a boolean returning closure and removed entries in place. Really handy.

• I went back to doing a bit of JavaScript. This is the first time I've come back and been frustrated by some aspects of the language. Do you want a for..of loop or a for..in loop? No idea, time to open DuckDuckGo again. It's a right pain.

• Day 5: The borrow checker realised I had got it wrong before I did. I'm really enjoying using Rust and can see why it's so popular in developer surveys.

• Day 5: If you want to iterate over a range in Rust you type something like this: 2..=4 which will give you an iterator with the values 2, 3, 4. If you want to go backwards you can't give it this: 4..=2. It won't iterate at all and you won't know why your Advent of Code solution isn't working. You need to use 2..=4.rev(). This is slightly annoying.

• Advent of code has encouraged me to start LeetCode again. Send help.

My TODO list of things I want to cycle next year is growing. The Dunwich Dynamo looks great.

Everywhere went from very hot to very wet very quickly.

The East Coast is next on the agenda.

• Transport for Wales decided to do works this weekend so no cycling. I will be back to tick off the top 100 climbs around Snowdonia.

• Ordnance Survey have an exceptional app. £25 a year and you have everything. Highly recommend.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of gluten free plain flour
• 4-5 ripe bananas
• half cup of sugar
• half cup of butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons milk
• half teaspoon vanilla
• teaspoon baking powder
• teaspoon baking soda
• quarter teaspoon salt
• cup of chocolate chips OR tablespoon of cinnamon

Steps

1. Preheat fan oven to 160 degrees celcius
2. Grease 8 by 4 inch loaf pan with loads of butter
3. Dump all dry ingredients in food processor
4. Mix
5. Put eggs, milk and vanilla in
6. Mix
7. Put chopped up bananas in
8. Mix
9. Stir optional chocolate chips in
10. Half fill loaf pan with half mixture
11. Bake in oven for 50 minutes, check middle is cooked with skewer
12. Leave on side for 15 minutes
13. Invert loaf pan and bang on counter until loaf drops out
14. Repeat greasing and baking for other half of mixture