Restart the Mac menubar Dock etc to recover Mission Control

 I've switched to a Mac full-time a few months ago. One weird thing keeps occuring--I'm unable to make menubar selections (which I first notice actually with a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Up Arrow or Ctrl-Down Arrow). It's unclear why this happens but typically happens after connecting my mac to an external monitor and then waking it up (although the problem is not instantaneous at that point--it occurs shortly thereafter).

I've tried the normal tips to get the menubar to respond such as killing all Dock processes and similar.

What does appear to work is simply lifting the lid of my Mac. It triggers a "hard" redraw on all of the graphics and restores the menubar functionality and voila! the Mission Control features mentioned above resume proper functionality. (I immediately close the lid which triggers a 2nd redraw but you get the gist.)

Slack autohides channels now by default

 Slack also eliminated the ability to search for channel names (no idea why).

So, you need to ENABLE the "Show and sort" ALL button. And or enable Show.... All your conversations in the preferences.

A little K8s, Gitea, Helm, Postgres, stuff

 Had a discussion at work about what data gitea puts into postgres. Kind of a scaling/sizing discussion. Mainly, the stateful info needs to be stored and it's not especially dynamic. (That's my short take on the findings.)

I found via google some useful information on seblab's blog: https://blog.seblab.be/

• Deploy Gitea and Postgres
  
• Backup Gitea
  

and I'm sure there could be a lot more. I like the way seblab sets up a problem/situation and works it out.