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Semi-productive month. Unfortunately still no job and still need to finish the libraries. Still debating on switching frameworks but given the jobs out there, I might need to change languages too. Most of the PHP jobs are asking for Larval or Symfony, Laminas isn't really used. Though Laminas itself is seeing thing disappear too. For the MVC component I have to go find something to replace it. Which means a big rewrite, which for at least one it needs it anyways. Which isn't giving much motivation to work on them.

Well the most productive month yet I think. It was determine that Gitea doesn't allow HTML in their Wiki tab. Which really sucks because I want to see some HTML that is generated from some of the tools that I am using for metrics and other things. It sounds like there is a Pages plugin that I can use to view those, which I hope to look at as soon as I get caught up with the libraries and maybe the apps.

Well, it is amazing what you forget when you haven't touched something for over a year. Got my server reorganized and it seems to be running good. Have a couple things to tweak at some point but nothing major. Code on the other hand I apparently didn't make my Oauth and Auth library completely compatible. So I am beating my head against the code. I have some ideas to hopefully fix it here shortly, but I will see what happens. 

Job front I will hopefully be looking some more actively this next month.

Well I am officially unemployed, I was outsourced overseas. At least it was to humans, but everything Youtube has been showing me is that AI is coming up fast. Not a fan. Have some plans to get my server up to date a bit more than it is and then try to add email login for the DynaBallot app. Then start looking for jobs. Though given my age I don't expect much. Might look at free lancing, given I have about 40 weeks to try to see if I can make a go of it. Will still look for a full time job too. 

Well less than a month left for my job. If I haven't said it already I am getting outsourced again. This time it isn't some company taking control of a service. It is a company that is replacing me with foreign people. My company is being stupid to think that these people are going to be able to do my job, but that is their loss. I am kind of hoping to get into another position in the company that I can do more programming with, but I haven't heard back so I probably didn't get it. So anyone looking for a semi-amateur programmer that loves PHP and Vanilla JavaScript, let me know. 

More progress with getting things moved over to gitea. Was finally get the docker files updated, unfortunately I can't seem to get the files in the image to update. I feel I am missing something, but not sure what. I was able to do an update on the WhereAreGames site and seems to be able to create tickets again. The Dynaballot is proving to be more challenging. It seems to be related to the CSP settings. The formatting is odd and when you submit the ticket it loads the landing page. Which makes no sense at all. In all closer to actually updating sites.

It has been a rough month. Looks like I have 90 days to look for a job. Applied to one already, but I should seek out more. Looks like they are outsourcing my job, yet again. This time to a outsource company instead of sending my servers to another company. So lame. I don't get why companies outsource their servers and talent instead of keeping it in house. They lose so much by outsourcing things. I get it you don't have to pay benefits and concessions, but still you lose in knowledge and people that actually give a crap about your company. It is sad really.

Well it is almost winter, it is even fall. So maybe I will find time to work on things. I did work on trying to get ticket to go to a new location. Still haven't had time to test and apply them. Still have some other things to working. 

Stats looks like there was between 5-12 unique users, on WhereAreGames. SEO looks ok, Google's hits seem to be down again. 

Was able to get the Dynaballot site moved. So both apps are now running with a newer version of PHP. Was also able get at least the packages that I use for these projects upgrade and in Gitea. I have a few things to do yet, to turn down some other services to use in Gitea. Getting closer to do some programming again finally.

Stats wise it looks like things are down a bit for WhereAreGames we had about 7 to 9 unique users. The SEO looks pretty steady currently. Not much clicking.

It has been an interesting month. The internet connection got updated, but needed to get a new IP for things. I had to get at least the Wherearegames migrated to a container. I was able it at least setup, but now I have been working on getting more of the pieces migrated into Gitea. Been running into trying to figure out how the composer registry works and it has been challenging. Just seems I am missing something and it doesn't seem to be in the documentation. The nice thing is there is progress.