I spent the entire week in a small town in Ciudad Real. I took the opportunity to keep reading Millennium by Tom Holland, which is the kind of book I could be reading for 3 years straight since every chapter sends me down a rabbit hole of deeper reads. The gaps in my medieval history knowledge are, frankly, staggering.
I’m setting up a personal server on Hetzner and so far it’s running my own Vaultwarden instance, FreshRSS, and the Grafana observability stack, mostly as an excuse to brush up on Ansible, which I hadn’t touched in a while. Vaultwarden makes sense to keep things lean, and I find their approach genuinely interesting: they track every change in the Bitwarden API contract and release new versions by reverse-engineering it. As for the full Alloy + Grafana + Loki stack, it’s a bit of overkill for a personal server, but I want to get comfortable with concepts I might apply at work later.
Next week I want to write the beginner’s guide to working with logs that I wish I’d had back in the day, instead of banging my head against the concepts for so long. It could be useful for junior engineers on the team too.
I also spent some time today using Claude Code more seriously, specifically for IaC. With this kind of work I try to keep it accountable, but it was genuinely useful today, only for relabeling I had to step in myself.