Justin Vollmer

I visited family this past week, and while there ran/participated in a Mario Kart tournament with some family friends.

After over a year of weekly notes, I’ve decided to place the series on indefinite hiatus.

Back to the office this week, with some storm spotter training on the weekend, and a bit of gaming!

Holy Week, 2026!

Back to a busier week, combined with preparations for Easter!

This was an overall pretty standard week for me…

Daylight Savings Time has arrived!

For the first time in a while, I got to spend at least one day this week heads-down on a project!

Another busy week, with a fun team dinner on Thursday to break it up!

Another short entry this week; keeping busy at work, and unfortunately not spending a ton of time on personal projects.

Short entry this week; I’ve been busy with work/personal projects and I don’t have much to share…

At long last, my schedule started slowing down this week!

This week actually ended up busier than the last, though unlike last week it was primarily during office hours

This week’s update might be even shorter than last… with Winter Conference going on, my week was heavily consumed by work discussions and dinners.

Shorter post this week… a lot has been going on, but mostly work-related, and therefore not much to share here…

One full week of 2026 over already?

All the cool kids, or at least Robb, Matt, and Jan-Lukas are updating their app defaults, something that started in the blogosphere back in 2023.

First weekly note of the new year!

Happy New Year!

I did a little review, and unless I’ve missed a post somewhere, I’ve only once written a public “New Year’s Resolutions”.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings That remains one of my favorite quotes.

I’ve seen a number of other bloggers writing year-end book reviews and commentary on what they read (shoutout specifically to Manu, SuperBetsy, and Jeremy Keith), and I decided to join the fun!

Week in Review It’s the last full week of the year!

Following my pattern from yesterday, for Christmas this year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to post the lyrics of one of my favorite Christmas hymns: From Heaven Above to Earth I Come (LSB 358) 1 “From heav’n above to earth I come to bear good news to

Merry Christmas to all!

For Christmas Eve this year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to post the lyrics of one of my favorite Advent hymns: What Hope!

Week in Review It’s the last week before Christmas!

Week in Review Monday and Tuesday were pretty normal, with meetings scattered throughout the day.

This past week largely saw a return to my normal schedule.

Yesterday afternoon in the office, one of my coworkers asked me (paraphrasing) how I back up my photos so that everything isn’t only in iCloud, and what I would recommend that she do.

This week I’m combining two posts into one (25.46 and 25.47), as I was a) delayed writing last week’s post, and b) it was looking short anyhow.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Over lunch, some colleagues and I were discussing why Christmas music is its own genre, with specific sounds.

Welcome to weekly note number 45 for 2025!

This week’s post will be fairly short.

Apparently, moving projects between groups in GitLab can have unintended side effects on pipelines and deployments.

Welcome to my 43rd weekly note post!

This week’s update might be even shorter than last week’s, although with a few twists!

I think I’ll keep this week’s update short and sweet. 🙂 A majority of this week in-office was spent in user acceptance testing of the new systems.

After being gone all of last week, it was nice to be home and in a little bit more of a normal routine this week!

This week was one of my busier in a while, as I was in-office on Monday morning, then traveled Monday afternoon/evening to Fargo, ND for some meetings with colleagues based out of our office there.

This week will once again be a shorter post, as a majority of the week followed my normal patterns work/life patterns.

This week’s post is a bit shorter than the last few (which in general isn’t bad in my opinion).

This week turned out to include a nice mix of work projects, local events, and some quality time experimenting with new tools.

I decided to enjoy some of the last of the cooler weather for a while, and go for an evening walk… And was pleasantly surprised by a mostly-cloudless sky, and a bright full moon to keep me company tonight!

This week turned out to be an interesting mix of holiday productivity, server upgrades, good food, and diving deeper into some AI tools (a phrase I never thought I’d write).

The downside of getting my vehicle’s oil changed at a dealership is that I’m really tempted to start looking at new vehicles… A small test drive couldn’t hurt, could it?

It’s been another week already?

This week was mostly back to my normal routine, with a few bright spots that made it memorable.

After a week away, this week it was back to the office, and a semi-normal schedule.