Week #777
Happy New Years! 🎉🎆🎇
We start every year in a similar way with our Omnibus post. These are wrap-ups from the previous 12 months. It allows us to go over what and how much we wrote in the previous year, along with any updates to any other articles we’ve written. This year, we shifted to focus more on our writing, so we added Web Stats to look at which articles were the most visited.
It’s always time to think about your backups! As we make new years resolutions to eat healthy, exercise or start that book/hobby/activity we never got around too, we should also add backups to the list. We’ve written about our backup setup on a few occasions (Backups and Backups 2.0 DAS edition) and we continue to improve it. Our mobile devices sync all their photos to the cloud, but that’s just someone else’s computer. When was the last time you took your own copy of all your precious photos and saved them locally?
We spent a bit of time this week checking and updating the scripts that backup our website databases. Along with that we added a cron task to rsync into our web host and backup all the files there into our DAS. Once there, it is ingested into the normal 3-2-1 backup setup. Now we have a pretty good handle on local and remote files that we control. The next piece of the puzzle are backups of SAAS based tools.
We ended the week with some sad news about the passing of Goddur iii];彡 He spoke at our Material Conference in 02018 and we’re grateful for all he’s done for the Icelandic design community. He will be missed.
Week #778
On Wednesday, we sent out the ◍ Quarternotes 02026Q1 newsletter. You should subscribe (via email or RSS) so you never missed an episode.
It’s been a slow start to the year projects-wise. We are waiting for some answers about potential projects along with kickoff meetings. Idle hands are the devil’s work, so we’ve certainly been keeping busy with other internal projects.
- Big fixes on the iOS Newsletters app
- Writing & compiling next week’s TIL 02025 article
- Updating 2026 Publishing Schedule
- Re-wired the desk setup to make it easier to switch which device has the external camera and external microphone attached
- Drafted up instructions for the iOS Camelut app.
- Collected stats numbers from 02025
- Updated entries in the bookkeeping software so the accountants can create the annual tax report
- Improved the web-based backup scripts
- Started TIL Phase 1
TIL Phase 1 is an interesting project that we’re excited about. Every morning we save a few headlines from the web and at the end of the year, write a long post with some stats. It is a very static document, so as part of TIL Phase 1, we converted all the entries and tags into a relational database. All this is laying the groundwork for Phase 2!