The first day and their are some excellent sessions lined up. All of the talks are recorded, I normally catch up with the talks that catch my interest after the event.

At congress it is best to hit the self organised sessions, they aren't recorded and are almost always excellent. Because they are excellent they are really hard to attend, loads of other people show up. The good sessions are standing room only with the corridor completely full too.

- [Are_decentralized_services_unable_to_innovate][1]
- [Mechanical_Keyboard_Meetup Tryout][2]
- [We Fix the Net][3]

In the past I lined up a busy schedule for the congress and ended up not going to any of the sessions. This year I am going to try and drop in and out of events, the sessions above are more of an intent that a plan.

The We Fix the Net session is really interesting, instead of a single event they have an afternoon of panels lined up. They are more focused on security aspects than transport, it should be a highlight of the event.

Reading: The Fahrplan, if anything

It starts!

Flight worked out well, the delay I had setting off from Aberdeen shortened my transfer, but it didn't hold anything up. I made it into the congress center around half three and was too early to get a ticket.

Rest of the day went into setting up blinkenlights and other important projects. Tomorrow I will explore the place and see what is going on.

I think the guy that brought my breakfast told me off for the table I was using. He said something, thankfully my amazing Shure SE215 isolating earphones blocked all of the sound out. I have a reason to be ignorant. I am sitting in a bar place, but I bought food so I could sit at a sensible height and type.

I figure the main purpose of airport seating is to stop you complaining and to keep you awake. The lack of somewhere to sit your laptop and type like a normal human is infuriating.

This coffee isn't even good.

ABZ->LHR->HAM

Reading: Nemesis Games, Or Nothing

And by nothing I mean I don't think I will get any more reading done this year.

Weather is getting cold, the storms have been beating the house.

Time to leave for somewhere, well somewhere not warmer, just different. Packing for congress was made much harder by ridiculous shipping regulations, an extra couple of bottles in my bag are worth it for the fun of a buckfast party night.

The pico projector was one of the first victims in the packing war, having spent more time with this projector I don't think it is going to be a big loss. I still have the udp panel and the slowtv project, with the lightning talk I probably have enough details to worry about at congress..

Reading: Nemesis Games

For development of the RSS IRC bot I need an RSS feed that updates frequently, I could subscribe to a HN feed or something from reddit. I did a quick search for something high speed and found a SO thread][1] with exactly what I need.

The linked heroku app can provide a feed updating at any interval you want. Turns out this is great for soak testing code over night.

Reading: Nemesis Games