My November ‘25 Week 3 in Review
Monday was a really slow day and I love it. I love slow days...days where everything I do is intentional and not based on feelings.
- I started playing with n8n. It's actually a really lovely automation tool. I can already see a few useful things I can automate to make my life a little bit easier. For example: my monthly spreadsheet.
I have this monthly spreadsheet I share with my housemate, where we fill in things we bought for the house. I really don't like filling it in, as I have to navigate to the spreadsheet and all that. It’d be nice if I could automate that process.
- My housemate introduced me to an app called "Too Good To Go," where restaurants give out surprise bags for a cheaper price, and the meal could be anything. Normally, you'd get the meal for a much higher price if you bought it during the day, but at night they don't want to throw it all away, so they make it into a surprise bag. I'm getting one today 😄 because sometimes I just need not to cook.
I've been meaning to set up my own S3 storage on my homelab, but I haven't found a use case for it. Today, I finally had a reason: I need to set up my own Git instance and I want the data to be saved to my S3, so I spent a few hours setting it up.
UPDATE: Time is 21:36. I am now in the restaurant, it's a Japanese restaurant. I haven't tried Japanese food that much, but my friends told me it tastes so nice, so I'm excited to try out what the surprise bag has for me! It's about 27 minutes away from where I live, so I also get a nice night walk.
Created a much better diagram for my homelab. I feel like the more diagrams I create, the better I get at this. Now my previous diagram looks so weird! I would love to also create a network diagram soon.
I continued my learning adventure on n8n. My goal was to create a workflow that fetches my markdown notes from S3, extracts the tasks from each note using an AI agent, and creates Linear tickets with the extracted tasks—something I do manually and don't like... haha.
But I noticed that n8n doesn’t fetch the folders you create either using MinIO client or manually in the console, only the ones created through n8n. I’m not sure if that’s a bug or something, but I’m still researching what to do.
This week has been quite heavy on reflection. I've read a few blog posts and I just love how well the writers reflect about their days, months, and years. It's... real and rare. And I want that for myself. One quote that always stuck with me:
Oftentimes we forget how hard we work, struggle to get to the current stage that we are.
Life is moving fast and it never stops. Sometimes we just have to look back and reflect. Having a book about your life is not a bad thing—it's your life and you deserve it.
One day I will grow old and I’ll need these books, journals, blogs to remind me of who I used to be and things I've accomplished, no matter how small they are. Writing is hard and yes, it's time-consuming, but taking it slow, day by day, and you will get there.
The reward is a story about you.