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Here's what I'm up to at the moment:

This past weekend, I went for a long walk exploring the Wytham Estate, which is a mixture of ancient and modern forests, owned by the University of Oxford and used for research.

In the kitchen, I've started increasing the hydration in my sourdough loaves, with good results so far. They seem to be harder to work but the end result is worth it. I haven't made a sourdough focaccia in a while so I think I'll give that another go soon.

Also, I've made konbu dashi for miso soup quite a few times now, but never actually gone through with using the leftovers to make furikake. Until now!

In my homelab, I set up a new Nextcloud instance on my fileserver, and a reverse proxy on my VPS. The setup was much simpler than it could have been, but I did get quite confused at parts of the deployment. Still, I'm learning a lot more and I feel more confident now than I did when I first set it up.

I've also started exploring packer for creating bespoke images to use in my deployments, which looks very promising.

I've been binging old episodes of What Went Wrong, a podcast about the production of famous films, which is super interesting. There's technical challenges, celebrity drama, politics and plenty of suits vs. artists kind of conflicts. I'd definitely recommend it if you're into film.

At work, I'm trying to make progress on my studies for Microsoft's MD-102 certificate, which is all about device management. It's been interesting but unfortunately large parts of the exam focus on aspects we simply don't use with our clients, so it's difficult to get practical experience.