Week #771
On Monday we spent a bunch of time cleaning-up the office; digitally and physically. We cleared-up a bunch of SD cards and external HDs to make sure the are already included in our backup scheme. If they were we deleted the data of the cards/HDs, of not, we copied it over and cleared them. With too many “sources of truth” it was causing more stress and confusion.
We also had a meeting about one side-project that has stalled. We decided to put it to sleep for six months rather than constantly meet-up and have done nothing.
On Tuesday it was Analog.is tasks. We saved the site files from GitHub, and updated the DNS to point to our hosting provider. Much of these were setup by Aitor and were connected to his company and credit card. The last steps are to deal with the online shop – downgrading that account and moving it off his company, and dealing with the ~2500 notebooks sitting in inventory we have left. (of course, we forgot to also move the email addresses, but that was quickly fixed)
On Tuesday we renewed our passport and printed some A1 02026 calendar posters.
You can download the PDF and print your own. Salt to taste.
https://github.com/optional-is/calendaring/blob/master/A0-Yearly/02026-Misseristal-A0.pdf
On Friday, we published an article about Willy Wonka Candy, you too can enjoy an entire thanksgiving meal in candy form!
Week #772
For the WebRTC project, we’re taking a slightly new UI direction this week. Rather than have small boxes for each of the participants, we’re testing various layouts using 9:16 portrait views. The results are promising for small groups of participants.
On Wednesday, we went to the University of Iceland’s professorship promotion seminars. When you take a professorship at the university you are asked to give a 1h lecture about how you got to where you are now. Our friend was to have his March 02020, but COVID scuttled that. Instead, there were 3, 20 minute lectures. It was great to see and hear a few people’s back stories and meet some new folks.
Thursday was Thanksgiving in the USA, so almost all projects froze mid-week and will pick-up again in Week #773.
Overall, this week was pretty slow. We took the opportunity to get a bit more organized internally. Gmail is always complaining that we’re almost out of space (ergo – give us money for a bigger plan). Rather than pay our way out of the problem, we went through and deleted LOADS of old mailing lists, company newsletters, etc. We dropped a few GB and will lighten the inbox going forward.
Bric-à-brac
Way back in 02014, we released this annotated ‘map’ of the famous Bruegel painting “Netherlandish Proverbs”. You can interact with it at https://bruegel.analog.is