---
title: "Notes on 2025W33"
slug: weeknotes-2025w33
date: 2025-08-17
categories: weeknotes
tags:
  - Weeknotes
  - Life
  - Me
  - GitHub
  - Forgejo
  - Erynwells.me
  - LGBTQIA+
  - Trans
  - Politics
  - CLI
---

It has been a while since I wrote any weeknotes. Hi! I'm still alive. Life is
keeping me busy and I find it difficult to fit in writing and sharing things
sometimes.

I had a goal this year of posting weeknotes like this on a roughly weekly
cadence. I did not keep up. I got so frustrated with myself that my brain
literally became this penguin and I stopped posting altogether.

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This is all totally arbitrary and avoidable. And yet. Life is busy, the politics
are shit, existing while trans is a constant source of stress. Maybe I owe
myself some slack, right? Unfortunately, slack is not something I'm good at
granting myself.

---

Tech Mastodon was abuzz this week about the new that [GitHub will be folded into
the AI group][gh] at Microsoft. I have been meaning to move off of GitHub for a
little while ago, and this kicked me over the edge. I set up a [Forgejo][fj]
instance over at [source.erynwells.me](https://source.erynwells.me) to host my
code going forward and migrated everything over there. Maybe one day I'll write
more about this.

---

I also figured out how to get my VPS to mail me periodic emails of system status
through FreeBSD's `periodic` system. I discovered that I get almost 1200
unauthorized login attempts against my system every day. Wtf. Here's a small
snippet of the attempts.

```txt
postgres    30 attempts
ubuntu      31 attempts
test        36 attempts
debian      43 attempts
user        64 attempts
admin       124 attempts

1156        total attempts
```

To my surprise, `root` is not among the attempted usernames.

---

Did you know [peacocks can shoot laser][peacocks] beams? Neither did I. I think
this kicks them up about eighteen notches on the "Metalest bird" scale.

---

Someone tooted in my vicinity about [Terminal Trove][tt], a website that
"curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface
tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter
what platform or medium." Right up my alley.

---

Politics continues to suck in the United States. A few articles (of a great many)
that stood out:

[Impeachment is a Duty][impeachment]. Keep shouting about the house being on
fire while the house continues to be on fire.

There are [a lot of bills moving through state houses that limit access to
gender-transition-related care][tcare], and seems a lot of these bills are
flying under the radar.

[It's not just burnout][bn] asks us to consider where we derive meaning in our
careers, to stay mindful of how much is actually fucked about the current world
order, and to cut ourselves some slack for the lethargy and demotiviation many
of us are feeling.


[gh]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/
[fj]: https://forgejo.org
[peacocks]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/scientists-use-peacock-feathers-to-make-frickin-laser-beams/
[tt]: https://terminaltrove.com
[impeachment]: https://www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-is-a-duty/
[tcare]: https://transnews.network/p/the-sweeping-anti-trans-bills-moving-through-congress-no-one-s-talking-about
[bn]: https://newsletter.activevoicehq.com/p/it-s-not-just-burnout
