There was a month-long hiatus on this blog because, reasons. I'm happy to say that, after a two-week back-and-forth with Framework Computers to get a mainboard replacement under warranty for my laptop, things should now be mostly back to normal in the IT department.

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I ordered the Delaware Valley Gold CD and book from the Leeds Branch bookshop, and the package finally arrived today!

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It's my 59th birthday. Unbelievable.

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It's Tuesday again and we're going dancing (Marie is working from home even though it is the first Tuesday of the new semester, because the public transport workers are on strike).

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I spent some time drawing up a programme for the upcoming end-of-April Rhein-Main-Mini-Social and assigned it to the FSCDC teachers' group so Marie could have a look at it before I posted it to the public. But the list didn't show up on her “My Dance Lists” page. What was going on?

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Just a brief note to document that the second four hours of this month's SCD taster session went fine – we finished with The White Cockade and The Machine without Horses, and while the dancing could have been improved in a few places, everybody finished together and in the correct places! The dancers were generally happy with the workshop and some of them are considering coming on Tuesdays.

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It's that time of year again! We're holding a bi-annual taster SCD workshop for beginners in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Frankfurt (Frankfurt adult learning centre). This takes place on a Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning (4 hours each) and the Saturday session of the spring 2025 workshop is today.

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An article in c't prompted me to install an instance of Bitpoll, which is a scheduling service similar to Doodle. The general idea is that if you want to put on an event but don't quite know when, you use the service to generate a poll listing the possible dates and send a link to the poll to everyone you want to involve in the decision. People can then mark the times which are convenient (or inconvenient) to them, and you can use this information to decide on the actual date.

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The title is a bit of a mouthful but we did go to this very nice concert in Bad Homburg. Many thanks to Sigurd for the tickets!

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At work we're using Gitlab – a software package that helps us organise our development. We have a fleet of “runners”, which we use to run automated tests and other tasks like packaging up our software. These can sometimes be an unruly bunch and it can be useful to be able to keep an eye on them.

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