First day back to work and it started with a bang. On Tuesday Microsoft did one of their Tuesday security updates and it broke our Azure DevOps deployment pipelines on Tuesday.
Naturally, without me the team of more than ten people worked hard but couldn't figure out why the pipeline broke or how to fix it. So as soon as I showed up this morning I pulled our two principal software engineers and guided them through the process of diagnosing the issue and coming out with solution of how to fix it.
We narrowed it down to .NET Framework 4.8 container image for Windows 2022 that Microsoft forgot to include in the 10.14.2025 update. There was 9.9.2025 image but they marked it as unsupported and it could not be pulled.
So we found a 4.8.1 Windows 2022 image and used it in our solution. We had it all working before lunch, but we missed our deployment window. So after lunch I wrote up the detailed explanation with screenshots and we submitted a change request for a deployment for tomorrow, because of course our Content Management System vendor released two updates to all of their container images while I was gone and today.
And that is after the last update that they made on August 18, 2025. So we do need to release the new build into production as soon as possible so that all the container images are patched with the latest security updates.
That is just my luck that while I am gone everything starts happening. The good news is that this was an opportunity to teach the team more about the solution so that they are able to function without me and I can move on to other projects.
Gold is really going parabolic and over the past two days I have sold off my GDX ETF position talking profits. This position I established in April 2021 and since then it outperformed both S&P 500 and QQQ ETF, so it was time to lock in profits. It will probably go higher, but nobody went bankrupt talking profits.
I am also slowly scaling out of my silver ETF investment. Silver is hitting all time highs and silver has been much worse of an investment historically compared to gold.
Silver tends to have major run ups just to go back down and stay flat for decades. Basically dead money most of the time. And it greatly underperformed S&P 500 in the past, so I am slowly talking profits. I feel it is behind gold and is going to top out after gold. But I don't know when the top will be so I am selling my PSLV ETF as it keeps going higher.
For now I am parking the money in a money market fund that pays 4%. I feel that everything is expensive and is due for a correction, until that happens I will collect the four percent.
BTC is under 110K and ETH is under 4k, altcoins look red and Hive is now under fourteen cents. Everyone is getting bearish, I have predicted that we might revisit the recent lows and it is looking like we are going in that direction...
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