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• ↓ The waiting room
• ↓ Is this thing still on?
• ↓ Laws of sewing
• ↓ Sparrowhawk
• ↓ A new backup strategy using restic
• ↓ Let's hope it's a good one
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"Walking in to the room was an overwhelming experience. The triage nurses in the lobby of the Accident and Emergency unit took a few brief details then asked us to check in using the iPads on the wall just around the corner. As we turned the corner, it hit us that the waiting room was absolutely full. All the seats were taken, and people leaned against the walls and in the passageways, so that they had to shift every time someone went past. It was around 23:30 on a Tuesday. At this point, we had no idea that we would still be here nine hours later."

"Well, hello again! I don’t think that I have ever had a gap in posting as long as this before. Several months ago, I decided to explore moving this blog from both my previous host (Netlify), and away from the static site generator I had been using (Hugo, more on those decisions below). However, life got in the way. We sadly lost a family member, Mr. Bsag got an injury that resulted in us spending 9 hours overnight in A&E (the Emergency Room, for North Americans), I had some bad bouts of ME/CFS fatigue, and so on. In between those times, I started to chip away at the blog moving task, but I kept getting delayed by having to make decisions about a long chain of dependencies. If I moved to Host A with static site generator B, would I be able to deploy from git host Z?"

"You might be thinking, “but surely your old site was still working fine all this time, so nothing (apart from the ‘life’ stuff) was preventing you from posting here in the meantime?”. That would be technically correct, gentle and perceptive reader, but it does not take into account my stubborn decision to only publish any new articles once the migration was complete. I know, it makes no sense. Anyway, the bulk of the work is done now, and the remaining tweaks and improvements can wait until later. I have a few ideas for posts that have stacked up, but for now, I’ll go through the decisions behind the move and what was involved before I forget why I put myself through all this."

"I’ve been doing a bit of sewing recently after a bit of a break in which I really didn’t have the energy. I still have to take it much slower than I used to do — no more non-stop sewing days — but I am finding that if I spread cutting out and sewing over several days, I can manage it."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for rousette.org.uk:

The waiting room

Is this thing still on?

Laws of sewing

Sparrowhawk

A new backup strategy using restic

Let's hope it's a good one