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  "description": "Week 15 summary - we haz batteries!",
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    "long weekend continued",
    "1RM",
    "Post by @Sathyabhat@mastodon.social View on Mastodon",
    "Subhashish \"Bhuto\" Das",
    "mini food crawl in Pendle Hill",
    "Gravel",
    "Forza Horizon 6 trailer",
    "Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred - The Queen and The Saint",
    "Diablo: Lord of Hatred - First Look",
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  "textContent": "### What's been happening\n\nWith Monday being a public holiday thanks to Easter, the lazy long weekend continued. Well, not quite - I didn't have my swimming class because of the holiday, but in the evening we did a bulk meal prep for the week. Jo & I have been experimenting with bulk meal prep for the week. Jo will have a meal plan for the week and work on portioning it out and preparing the various bases. I helped out with some peeling and chopping.\n\n0:00\n\n/0:36\n\n1×\n\nMeal prep\n\nI was also very excited - for I had taken the extra day off on Tuesday. The batteries were finally being installed! The battery installers arrived in the morning at around 8am. The person introduced himself and going by the name, I knew he was Romanian, but asked him just to be sure. When he nodded affirmatively, I greeted him in Romanian with the usual greeting that I would do when I was in Romania -\n\n> Salut, salut! Ce faci?\n\n> Hello, how are you doing?\n\nThe look on his face was priceless - _how in the world is this brown dude in suburban Sydney speaking Romanian?!_ We chatted briefly, then it was onto the work - he told me what the plan was for the day. I showed him where the batteries were to be installed and waited for the rest of the installers to come over. The install took about 6 hours - the installers unloaded the battery to the back of the house, mounted them, while the electrician worked on drawing the wires from the main switch board (which was all the way at the front of the house) to the batteries. And when it was all set and ready to connect, they shut down the power supply to finish the final connections and then turned it on. The installer configured the batteries - for which I had to provide my phone as a hotspot. The batteries need Internet connection to complete the setup, but when the power was shut down and later restored, that seemed to have caused a problem with my router and it went on a bootloop, refusing to start. It was only a few hours after the install was done and configured that the router somehow booted up - but in trying to get this done, I had attempted to factory reset the router many times, so all my WiFi settings, DHCP leases, IP reservations were all lost. So I spent another hour or so re-configuring them. But no problems with the batteries! They've been working well.\n\nBatter install being done\n\nI had shut down my homeserver and NAS the previous day as I knew the power shutdown was going to happen but didn't want to wait for the whole server shutdown time, so the day after the batteries were installed, I turned them on and left for work. Imagine my surprise when I reached back home in the evening and the homeserver and the NAS were fighting with each other for network connectivity - it turns out the homeserver got a `192.168.0.40` IP via DHCP from the router, but this IP was configured as a static IP on the NAS from the OS level, so these two devices kept fighting to claim the same IP. Untangling this was not fun, particularly when I was losing SSH connection every 30 seconds or so. I finally figured out this problem and got into the terminal and managed to shutdown the homeserver which let the NAS keep the IP.\n\nWednesday was also 1-rep max (1RM) day - we'd been working on our backsquats the past few months and it culminated with the 1RM day. Originally planned for Tuesday, Jo was running late for gym due to her work and thus we had to push it to Wednesday. We started with a couple of minutes of cycling to warm up, and then the lunges and bodyweight squats for some more warm up and preparation for the squats. The barbells were then loaded and we slowly progressed from 20 -> 40 -> 60 -> 80 -> 90 -> 98 -> 100 kg (!!). As someone who's been deathly afraid of the barbell because of my previous back injuries, getting to here has been a major milestone and I'm very happy with this. Jo also hit her 1RM of 60 kg! Incredible work from her as well. We'll be changing the block from the upcoming week, so not sure what's next but will know soon. Here's the 1RM workout from me.\n\n>   Post by @Sathyabhat@mastodon.social View on Mastodon \n\nI also met an old friend on Wednesday. Subhashish \"Bhuto\" Das had let me know he was visiting Sydney, and we managed to catch up over coffee on Wednesday afternoon. It was nice to meet - I think I'm meeting him after close to a decade. It's pretty incredible how many amazing people I had met over Twitter during its early days. On Thursday, my team went to Bistecca for lunch for my team mate's farewell lunch - he's retiring at the end of the week and we wanted to celebrate. We had some good food, drinks and chatted a bit and wished him the best!\n\nAfter the Easter break, I resumed my driving classes with two sessions. My instructor's been taking me to different places in Blacktown, where I will be having my test, to get me acquainted with the different roads and the little twists each of those roads bring in. This week, I was made familiar with Blacktown's \"the roundabout of doom\" - a multilane roundabout with pedestrian activated signals on the entry and the exit of the roundabout. Navigating this was a pain. When I returned home, the entertainment unit that Jo had thrifted from Salvo's store had been delivered, so we moved the TV to the new entertainment unit and moved the old one to Jo's office.\n\nOur new, old entertainment unit.\n\nWe did a mini food crawl in Pendle Hill on Saturday morning, and then I went back home while Jo went about searching for armchairs to thrift (she was successful).\n\n### What I've been playing\n\nGravel - Gravel is an arcade off-road racing game that I had bought during the steam sale. I've been playing a bit of this and has been pretty fun. The game is packaged as an action oriented TV program - with many tournaments covering different racing modes such as sprints, time trials, rallycross and rally. The graphics are pretty decent, but the AI is either stupid and you end up with a 20 second+ lead, or rubberbands like crazy and leave you far behind. Thankfully, the game offers \"stars\" for your race progress and doesn't mandate that you have to win every single race.\n\nPath of Exile - I've been working on improving the reap ignite build and it's at a stage where any further upgrades will require a lot of grinding - either to get the required currency to buy or materials to craft. I'll continue trying to get to the higher tier maps, but I think this might be the end of the build. It's pretty fun to make one attack and see screenwide clears - might see if there's other similar builds for next league.\n\n### What we watched\n\nWhile not movies, there have been some cool gaming videos that were published and that I enjoyed this week\n\nForza Horizon 6 trailer\n\n__Forza Horizon 6 Trailer__\n\nDiablo IV: Lord of Hatred - The Queen and The Saint\n\n__Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred - The Queen and The Saint__\n\nDiablo: Lord of Hatred - First Look\n\n__Diablo: Lord of Hatred - First Look__\n\nDiablo IV's Vessel of Hatred campaign was pretty poor, I'm hoping the next expansion - Lord of Hatred would be much better.\n\n### What we ate\n\nBistecca - Sydney CBD - As mentioned above, I went here with my team for a team lunch. Bistecca is a literally hard-to-find place thanks to the secret entry door that is pretty easy to miss. Once you go in, you are requested to deposit your phones into the box and they'll lock it away, so no pictures were taken. Unlike other steakhouses, Bistecca only has one cut - their signature t-bone that is done medium-rare (or your preference) and weighed by the kilo. The steak I had was amongst the best yet, and the sides were pretty good too. Gidley still remains my all-time favourite for Sydney steakhouses, but this is very good.\n\nPendle Hill Food run - See my other post\n\n### Music of the Week\n\nElderbrook's Inner Light is a fantastic track with an even more amazing music video.\n\n### Links of the week\n\nThe Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can - _Such a great video on what does behind the scenes of your favourite drink's can._\n\nTop 20 Australian TV ads_- I don't know top 20 by what measure but these are pretty good._\n\n20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job\n\n> Colin is the creator of Tarsnap and a fellow AWS Hero. This is such a great read from Colin on his experiences with working on, and with, AWS services.\n\n### Thanks for reading.\n\nThanks for reading and have a great week ahead.",
  "title": "Weekly Notes 15/2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-12T11:40:45.020Z"
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