2025-11-24 Notes

yesterday: 2025-11-23 Notes

Development #

• EOY is a good time to revisit the dots

  • I have several old neovim plugins I’ve tried that can go
  • TIL I have <leader>cs to bring up a symbol outline, totally forgot about it

• reminder: zensical for homelab-mono docs and dotfiles docs

Soonish #

Temporal is great… idk what my issue is but maybe something about async sqlite is finicky cause I’m having some kind of race condition that I can not localize… but temporal makes it easy for me to retry the things I need to… here’s what I mean:

details = None
while details is None:
    details = await workflow.execute_activity(
        get_event_details,
        event_id,
        start_to_close_timeout=timedelta(seconds=30),
        retry_policy=RetryPolicy(
        backoff_coefficient=2.0,
        maximum_attempts=5,
        initial_interval=timedelta(seconds=1),
        maximum_interval=timedelta(seconds=2)
        )
    )

At the beginning of my Workflow.run I need some details from a record in a database. I know that record exists because this workflow gets ran by the function that makes the record and I see it in the backend…. but sometimes this query was coming back None… Temporal makes doing this simple while loop super easy with builtin retry logic

NOTE: I’m not sure yet if I need to handle the otherwise infinite loop possibility…