Erv Walter

@ervwalter

Father and husband, software developer, general geek

Sun Prairie, WIJoined January 2022

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I'm a father and husband, a software developer, a computer geek, a board game collector, and a heart transplant recipient living in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

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New Auth, Legacy Data, New Options

Well, it’s been just shy of a week since the launch of the new version of TrendWeight. Early feedback was mostly positive and many small bugs were squashed in the first few days. There were also a couple larger improvements that just went live that a...

Jul 29, 20253 min read

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TrendWeight v2 Has Launched!

After more than a decade sitting mostly unchanged, TrendWeight has gotten a fresh update. While the app looks and works mostly the same way you're used to, everything under the hood has been modernized. What You Need to Know Logging In You'll need to...

Jul 23, 20252 min read

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Rebooting TrendWeight (Again)

A while ago, I shared that I was going to rewrite TrendWeight from scratch (see Why Rebuild?). And then there was three years of radio silence on the project. The rewrite stalled at 70%—most of the interesting architecture was done, leaving authentic...

Jul 23, 20252 min read

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AI as Observer: Chronicling Tabletop RPGs

Last night at the gaming table… They ascended cautiously, weapons ready. In a chamber on the upper floor, they found her - an emaciated figure kneeling within a circle of power. On either side stood skeletal guardians, each bearing six arms laden wi...

Dec 14, 20246 min read

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CephFS: Migrating Files Between Pools

When I started with CephFS, I didn't have a good plan for how I wanted subfolders to map to different Ceph pools. I had different kinds of data in the file system, so I knew I wanted some of it to be on fast NVMe storage with simple replication, and ...

May 24, 20243 min read

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New Auth, Legacy Data, New Options

TrendWeight v2 Has Launched!

Rebooting TrendWeight (Again)

AI as Observer: Chronicling Tabletop RPGs

CephFS: Migrating Files Between Pools