From ef2b8bea439882644a3bbcf236bc55c0178a9157 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kesterson <andrew@aklabs.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:32:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Deploying upstream@1b600185685f4570e435d7bc08542368426f59e5:
 Plan updates

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-    <time datetime="2026-01-18T17:47:27.018Z">
+    <time datetime="2026-04-30T23:19:25.974Z">
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-      <span>2026-01-18</span>
+      <span>2026-04-30</span>
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-      <span>648 words</span>
+      <span>333 words</span>
     
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     <p>To review the history of my <code>~/.plan</code> file and see progress over time, you can see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://github.com/akesterson/akesterson.github.io/commits/main/now/index.html">the history on github</a>.</p>
 <p>These days I’m mostly focused on my day job, which means I won’t publish a lot of personal code, but the good news is that most of my work is open source on Repo1, and you can <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://repo1.dso.mil/akesterson/dotfiles/-/blob/main/.plan.md">follow me there</a>.</p>
 <h2 id="Recent-Progress"><a href="#Recent-Progress" class="headerlink" title="Recent Progress"></a>Recent Progress</h2><ul>
-<li><p><input checked="" disabled="" type="checkbox"> 
-Accepted or closed several merges&#x2F;bugs on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://github.com/akesterson/cmdarg">cmdarg</a>, my pure bash argument parsing library. Took the time to construct a CI pipeline that runs tests. I was a bit gunshy about accepting changes to the library since it had been so long since I wrote it, then I remembered I had written 30 checks with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://github.com/akesterson/shunit">shunit</a> (another one of my old bash tools), so all I had to do was rig it up with the github pipeline. Took the chance to fix a bunch of little things about how cmdarg, shunit, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://github.com/akesterson/versioners">versioners</a> (yet another bash tool I wrote a while back) run their <code>make install</code> target.</p>
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-<li><p><input checked="" disabled="" type="checkbox"> 
-Started the 2026 fire academy down here in Marion county Georgia. We have a little under a dozen recruits that are going through the academy. Lots more cadre are stepping up from across the county to help this year, as well, in addition to the students who graduated last year. Each one, teach one.</p>
-</li>
+<li>Completed a Support Firefighter academy, graduating several Marion county support firefighters</li>
+<li>Midway through a Suppression Firefighter academy, getting ready to graduate 3 new suppression firefighters</li>
+<li>Abandoned the synology DSM API automation efforts. It’s undocumented hot garbage.</li>
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 <h2 id="Specific-Plans"><a href="#Specific-Plans" class="headerlink" title="Specific Plans"></a>Specific Plans</h2><!-- personal .plan here -->
 <ul>
-<li>Program a bunch of Baofeng BF-888S radios for the fire academy. Recruits need radios for training, and our regular Kenwoods are way too expensive to give them out to recruits (and with the BF-888s we won’t risk accidental training mayday transmissions on the actual fire repeater….)</li>
-<li>Implement <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://github.com/akesterson/py-synologydsm-api">py-synologydsm-api</a> SYNO.Cal event filtering by calendar ID and filtering by date (only show me events in the future). I’ll be honest, every day that passes, I’m less inclined to complete this. The reason I wanted to do this in the first place was to avoid having to learn <code>org-mode</code> (as an emacs user, I know, this is sacrilege), but I just don’t think I love Synology enough to force myself to work in this ecosystem. There’s probably a blog post coming about this.</li>
 <li>Plan and implement a distributed storage network for myself and my relatives. One of us recently suffered a catastrophic data failure on their NAS and there were no backups. This was a serious wake-up call that RAID in one location is not enough, so we’re taking steps towards geographically distributed replicated backups.</li>
 <li>Publish my RFC on Decentralized Claim-Based Professional Credentials and Trust Attestations, aka, “how we can use the crypto web of trust to solve the AI slop hiring problem in our job market”. I’ve been sleeping on this to see if I still like the idea, and some parts of it have not grown on me, but I think the idea is worth talking about.</li>
 <li>Resolve a couple of bugs in the Steam DevKit Client, now that we’ve gotten guidance on how to contribute changes back. I’m at least going to solve the problem where the client doesn’t even run on recent X ubuntu installations. (Wayland can suck it.)</li>
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 <h1 id="Musings"><a href="#Musings" class="headerlink" title="Musings"></a>Musings</h1><!-- musings here -->
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-<p>Q:      How many elephants can you fit in a VW Bug?<br>A:      Four.  Two in the front, two in the back.</p>
-<p>Q:      How can you tell if an elephant is in your refrigerator?<br>A:      There’s a footprint in the mayo.</p>
-<p>Q:      How can you tell if two elephants are in your refrigerator?<br>A:      There’s two footprints in the mayo.</p>
-<p>Q:      How can you tell if three elephants are in your refrigerator?<br>A:      The door won’t shut.</p>
-<p>Q:      How can you tell if four elephants are in your refrigerator?<br>A:      There’s a VW Bug in your driveway.</p>
+<p>When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened<br>or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I<br>cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to<br>go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.<br>                – Mark Twain</p>
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