Professional Updater

It's been a lot of updates lately.

And not of the cool kind with features you want.

More like: update asap to not be at risk! You are probably already late!

Ubuntu
PHP
Node JS
Craft CMS
Kirby CMS
All kinds of plugins. Or even stuff like Twig.
Also homelab patching of everything.

The good parts

Professionalizing all monitoring tools, and getting all projects up to date.

Learning a lot about Ubuntu along the way.

Reaffirming my already strongly held opinion to try to stick to defaults as much as possible, and rely on as few plugins as possible per project. Fewer plugins mean fewer vulnerabilities.

Also I am very positive about how both Craft CMS and Kirby CMS are handling security fixes, and also both Laravel Forge and Fortrabbit on the server/provisioning side.

The not so great part

It's mentally draining to constantly feel "under attack" and responsible for patching holes ASAP.

It's not so much the actual work of updating. That's even enjoyable at times, like decluttering, cleaning up or doing dishes.

It's more the required alertness that bothers me.

I'm trying to be more offline in my life.
Read more books and take time away from the screen.

But right now it feels like within a weekend one might already be way late to patch something on Monday morning.

New normality?

I guess we need to adapt a higher updating frequency across the board in the industry?

What's the current norm? Usually PHP/CMS updates every few months felt pretty solid. Not sure if that's enough anymore?

Could of course also be that this is all just a wave, and not a new normal.

I'll get back to updating. I hear some pings from my dashboard.