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Another busy week here as “Q3” gives way for “Q4” in the business world.

Early this week we had a company retreat. On Monday we invited middle and senior management teams and on Tuesday we invited the whole tech team including fully remote staff. We rented a huge AirBnB with a games room and a projector and even a hot tub (although only our CEO and one of the braver account managers went in the tub, the rest of the team stood around awkwardly).

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Another week has flown by and September is coming to an end. Autumn, incidentally, my favourite season, is here. As ever, September is a monumentally busy month at work as clients and colleagues alike come back from summer holidays. It’s also the time of year when I like to kickstart personal projects and chores around the house.

Due to some bad timing with colleague holidays this week, I spent some time doing some front-line data science work and I welcomed the opportunity to get my hands dirty and reflected on how python package management is still nightmarish in 2023. I think my own advice from a couple of years back is still pretty relevant.

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Today I learned about PicGo an open source project which provides a relatively lightweight tool (it is an electron app so… 😬) which runs in the background and can upload images from your clipboard or filesystem to a host of your choice. The main README for the project is written in chinese which unfortunately I can’t read. However, I was able to fumble my way through with some use of Google Translate and some guesswork.

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This week I have been playing with swapping Todoist with Tasks.Org on android and syncing it with Nextcloud Tasks via CalDav. The idea was to see if I could switch my todo list to a self-hosted solution and just because it’s been a while since I played around in this space.

After a week I have decided to stick with Todoist. In summary, Tasks.Org is great but the poor desktop experience meant that many of my use cases that involve moving between desktop and moble were negatively impacted.

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In episode 6 of #100DaysToOffload I’ve been playing with some strategies for running the house with my wife.

“Do you have the login for the car insurance?”

“Which home insurance provider are we with now? I just spilled red wine on the carpet”

“What day does the mortgage come out of our joint account?”

These are questions, particularly that 2nd one, that I want to be able to answer at the drop of a hat. However, there are also a couple of other key constraints:

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