Paul Grave’s blog

I’ve been on this planet for 47yrs and yesterday I discovered what that additional hole is used for on trainers. Heel lock. I tried it on this morning’s run and it’s a revelation! m.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPGJ3-m


That was great first episode. I’m already bought into Bella Ramsey as Ellie.


Strava’s UK price increase seems like a reasonable one. I’ve been a user for many years and I still think it’s good value. Especially when considering how other social platforms are run.


A tip for those individuals running K3s on RaspberryPi devices. Be wary of using MySQL as a datastore. MySQL performance can suck which in turn affects the stability of your K3s cluster.

I’ve installed etcd on a RaspberryPi zero, and it’s working great. etcd is smaller, faster, and more simple to run.


France was dead, dead, dead.


Has anyone tried sending iOS crash logs via Open Telemetry trace? I’m trying to figure out how to best symbolicate the crash data.


@jpkroehling Do you happen to know if there’s a nice way to view Open Telemetry RUM data?
I don’t want to have to use the Elastic RUM Agent but the way in which the UX data is displayed in Kibana is really nice.


Apparently there is no possibility to check a decision with VAR after the whistle has been blown to restart the match, and after the final whistle has been blow.

Except that’s exactly what the ref did during the France - Tunisia match.
Fortunately this screw up had no influence on the outcome of the group.


Ran a good 5k last night. 7 secs from a PB. Saucony Endorphins Pro instead of my Flyknits. They worked well. I think next time I’ll use pace alerts to make sure I don’t back off.


I wrote some code... It’s a Concourse Resource Type that allows interactions with Octopus Deployments. github.com/paulgrav/concourse-


The matches having n minute added due to stoppages is fine... but why isn’t that consistent with refereeing in Europe? Moreover, the viewer has no idea how much time is left. Football always a few steps behind Rugby.


The FIFA World Cup 22 is sponsored by Budweiser who can’t sell their beer in the stadia. It’s not like the right to host the World Cup was awarded yesterday to Qatar. There were 12yrs to sort that out.

Maybe World Cups can only be awarded to countries that support western values.

news.sky.com/story/qatar-world


A tough Parkrun at Temple Newsam. Not sure if I should have expected a time closer to 19mins
strava.app.link/SQBAmTCKTub


Happy


Twitter looks like it’s imploding, so I’ve been using Mastodon instead.


France squad announced last night. I’m not hopeful that France can retain the World Cup. France has struggled this year to not concede goals. I don’t see how a midfield can be composed that matches 2018’s Kanté, Pogba, Matuidi.


Played the first 30mins of God of War: Ragnarok. Wow. The acting, the score, the gameplay. All top notch. #ps5 #gaming


Played the first 30mins of God of War: Ragnarok. Wow. The acting, the score, the gameplay. All top notch.


What’s surprising about Mastodon is how much of it just works. There are definitely issues but there’s a lot of promise.
Just waiting from Trump to come back to Twitter 🙏🏻


What’s surprising about Mastodon is how much of it just works. There are definitely issues but there’s a lot of promise. Just waiting from Trump to come back to Twitter 🙏🏻


@manton How do manage both your Micro Blog account and your Mastodon one? Did you cross post from Micro Blog to Mastodon or keep both separate? There doesn’t seem to be a way to consolidate both identities.


Every World Cup and Olympics tends to be preceded by negative stories. I’m wondering home much of the negativity about Qatar hosting the World Cup will end once the competition starts.


Every World Cup and Olympics tends to be preceded by negative stories. I’m wondering home much of the negativity about Qatar hosting the World Cup will end once the competition starts.


Ran a marathon on 9 Oct. And I’ve been struggling to fully recover since. HRV rallied immediately afterwards but cratered 10 days later. Only returning to some form of normality this weekend. Then back to unbalanced after a Saturday workout.


Ran a marathon on 9 Oct. And I’ve been struggling to fully recover since. HRV rallied immediately afterwards but cratered 10 days later. Only returning to some form of normality this weekend. Then back to unbalanced after a Saturday workout.