As many other, I found myself primarily working from home all of a sudden. The lines between working and not working was fading. I suspected I worked too many hours (spoiler; ¹), and also that real development work got overshadowed by an increasing amount of Slack and video meetings (spoiler …

Many years ago I made an awful bash script which subscribed to a couple of RSS feeds and pushed notifications to me if it found keywords of value in the title. In the event doing some changes, I made the jump to python. Here is the gist of it, where …

This started by me wanting to graph up from some arbitrary data sources, and I wanted to store the data in my postgres database for learning purposes. So I went down the rabbit hole and looked for a statsd-ish services with a Postgres backend, but everything was either a bit …