I upgraded my Debian workstation to the next release without reading the release notes. Typically not recommended, but it's been half a year now and I just wasn't getting around to it. So I closed my eyes and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. To my surprise that's all that was needed. Things have changed somewhat, but full-upgrade is now the way forward more or less, but don't take my word for it.
Christmas gigs are going well. Even added lights to the kit for that extra festive feel.
A couple of days late. Let this year's pantomime begin, off to see the wizard! I have three different Christmas gigs booked with two different jazz bands later next month. Excited about that. Also, a new Java LTS release I need to catchup to (even though LTS doesn't exist, except that it does).
Beginning to notice "glitches" in the responses from the AI chatbots I've been playing with. Hallucinations, outdated and in some cases just plain wrong data seems to be more prevalent in my interactions.
Been away a few weeks with the family taking a break from the chaos. Will try and continue jamming at Jazz@248 in the fall. It's been fun and a great way to meet other players.
Programming life has been fun. I've been head-down on a development project for the last little bit. Nice to get a chance to just sit and work on a Java application again.
After the big band season ended I was asked to be a house drummer for a new jazz club that opened downtown. Keeps me playing over the summer months and I've met a bunch of cool, talent players.
I had a show cancelled last month, because of bad weather. That's never happened to me before. Also, I can now be reached if needed.
I've been exploring generative AI via Quarkus and LangChain4J. Pretty impressive combination that makes building with AI models pretty straight forward.
Added pagination to this journal section. Kind of surprised I got to the point where I needed it.
No post in December. The holidays were just that busy.
Needing to revisit some old tech I haven't touched in a while. Just booked a restaurant gig with the OPJB on Valentine's day. I enjoy those gigs.