Data

Everyone has an opinion about grocery prices. Mine was vibes. Eggs felt expensive. Milk felt expensive. Everything felt expensive. I didn’t need to guess, though. I have kept the household books for well over a decade, and every receipt gets scanned and filed next to the ledger. From 2019 to today that is 1,754 grocery receipts from twelve stores. Costco, Superstore, Walmart, Co-op, T&T, Sobeys, Safeway, Save-On-Foods, Bulk Barn and a few others. ...

I was working away happily this week on my Ansible scripts, testing them with Vagrant VMs when all of a sudden Vagrant wouldn’t create new VMs for me. I discovered the problem was that the 256GB SSD on my laptop was filled with photos and videos. I regularly take photos, with both a camera phone and a DSLR but, ever since my daughter was born, my wife and I (mostly my wife cough cough) have been taking an enormous amount of pictures. It wasn’t until my hard drive space was at 90% that I realized that I have a data growth problem on my hands which is going to cost me an increasing amount of time and money to manage correctly. ...