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title: Status update, November 2021
date: 2021-11-24
---

It has been colder and colder, although I still go running two or three times
a week!

## Software development

Recently, I have been dealing with a lot of half-baked projects:

- Huge chunks of code that have been copied and pasted around in the codebase.
  Fixing an issue is ten times longer.
- Git histories full of merge commits or useless commit titles. Praise
  to git-rebase flow!
- Scattered docker configurations in nested directories.
- Overengineered infrastructure with no active users [^1].

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328761

## OpenBSD -current

My OpenBSD workstation restarted without any bitmap fonts! I originally thought
that something was broken with the *Terminus* font, but my *google-fu* lead me
to the following xenocara update. It looks like it has been fixed upstream too.

> robert@ modified lib/fontconfig/conf.d/Makefile: do not disable bitmap fonts
> by default; if you already have /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf, you
> might want to delete it ok matthieu@
> > https://nitter.net/OpenBSD_xenocar/status/1460003431138004994

Moreover, my wifi card is not powered on anymore when waking up from suspend:

1. *-current* (post 7.0) has some changes affecting *iwm* and *iwx* firmware.
  However the intel card on the X220 uses *iwn* (Intel Wifi Link 1000).
2. Actually I had to rescue the wifi slot because I torned some pins when
  replacing the wifi card months ago. But everything works fine after a fresh
  reboot.