Mp-wp bot delivery
This is priority # 1 until Tuesday. Testing this weekend revealed bugs carrying unicode across boundaries that I thought I had killed already, but after some toiling I was able to get that taken care of. I have a little manual test script now that shoves all kinds of offensive characters (some > 3 bytes) into all kinds of input, and by the end I was unable to break it at least.
Most everything else appears to be functioning: blog selection echoing, log line echoing, log line numbering, etc. The only thing that still is haunting me is trackbacks; sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. However, I think this may just be a general mp-wp issue (with the “xmlrpc.php” file) since I get this intermittent failure sending the trackbacks via ‘curl’. In other words, I believe it is outside the scope of my bot atm so I’ll just let the trackbacks be for now.
So, I’m almost ready for delivery I think, however I still need to review the sql dump process. The only day I have left to do this is Monday (tomorrow so let’s see if I can use what time I have to my advantage for a change. I don’t have much choice in any case.
Saltmines
I gave the majority of my time to these guys last week, nor did I send any applications out. I need to keep those things going out; I’m just going to try sending one per day to get into the habit at least.
House clean-up
I did some cleaning before bed a few nights last week at least; just need to keep this up.
General life organization
I need to take more ownership over my time. If I’m spending time working for stupid then that’s what I’m doing, and I can’t fall into that ‘victim’ mindset like it was an unavoidable pit I fell into.
Blog
My blog queue is still backed up: final penance article, Shinjiru write-up / HostOne write-up complete. Let’s see how this bot delivery goes this week. If it goes well then I’ll hit my blog hard next week.
This is among the “famous last words” lolz. There’s no such thing as “almost ready”/”almost done”. Either it is (ready/done) or it is NOT. So it’s not ready and there is the review of the sql dump process still to be done, withing the necessity-imposed time slot of Monday morning. Sucks, but that’s no reason to not look at it plainly (quite on the contrary, make the suck as clear as possible – maybe at some point you really have enough of it so you don’t let it get there anymore).
The stated intentions otherwise are good and pushing in the right direction – do act them out, one day at a time, each and every day. I’ll read and comment on your daily updates, too.
Comment by Diana Coman — March 9, 2020 @ 8:04 am
Understood. This is another habit I have of trying to gingerly downplay the reality of certain things to myself (or just simply being *too* optimistic at times). I’ll try to keep it plain going forward.
In mid-day updates: Meh, I hate daylight savings but moreover I hate my past self’s decision to not take it into account last night before going to bed! Got off to a late start this morning and missed my Monday morning slot. I gotta make this time up today.
Comment by Eric Benevides — March 9, 2020 @ 3:56 pm
Alright, I spent a good few hours reviewing where MP and I left off last time and I proposed a path forward based on what I reviewed. I’ll be checking in tomorrow morning to see what he says. Off to bed early tonight to try and get my schedule back on track. I got my one application sent today as well.
Comment by Eric Benevides — March 10, 2020 @ 1:44 am
Sounds not-bad. MP’s jungle-internetz might not play all that nicely & predictably but anyway, you got the path forward out so that’s good. How’s the cleaning & tidying?
Comment by Diana Coman — March 10, 2020 @ 7:34 am
Minimal tidying is being done but yeah I gotta get back to the main bits. I’m gonna commit to getting that living room cleared this week; I’ll just do that as part of my before-bed cleaning.
Main priority now is getting that [http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2020-03-11#1959430][log history in] for the bot.
Comment by Eric Benevides — March 11, 2020 @ 3:01 am
The bot work sounds on the right track at least, if still unexpected new/different stuff pops up, huh.
Comment by Diana Coman — March 11, 2020 @ 7:48 am
Yeah, I’m glad that the bot work is finally moving again. I chipped away at that living room yesterday night, probably will be able to finish it tonight.
Comment by Eric Benevides — March 12, 2020 @ 3:12 am
I pretty much just focused on cleaning today. I wanted some time to think and it was a good activity to do so. Got the living room cleaned and tomorrow I’m planning to WFH so I’m going to try and knock out that historical log dump.
Comment by Eric Benevides — March 13, 2020 @ 4:22 am
Sounds not-bad & good luck with the log dump!
Comment by Diana Coman — March 13, 2020 @ 7:42 am
I spent this evening going through my old dump process finally (I ended up spending Friday night and Saturday morning away from most terminal, save for keeping up with #o logs). I had to refresh myself on all of my various scripts, etc that I used last time but finally found what I needed. Had to make some small tweaks but I’m running it now into a test database and I’m going to let it keep running overnight (usually takes a couple of hours). Tomorrow morning I’m going to comb through it to avoid further fencepost errors.
Comment by Eric Benevides — March 15, 2020 @ 3:35 am
And hopefully you documented better the dump process this time so that next time it’s not again “finally found what I needed”, ok?
Comment by Diana Coman — March 15, 2020 @ 8:10 am