2025-11-24 Notes

#daily-note

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...