Week of September 7, 2025
I guess we're doing weeknotes now. Let's chalk it up to a recent dearth in ideas, shall we?
Work
Work occupied the majority of my waking hours this week - and that's without including a full weekend of testing and debugging ahead of the big GA release scheduled for next week. This should have been a chaotic week, but a timely closure of bugs prevented any pressing issues. Who knew that completing your work on time had its own benefits?
Something I've noticed over the last (couple of) week(s) is that I'm loving being back in API development. My contributions feel more tangible than the nebulous work I was doing previously with the ontology and micro-services side of things.
Life
I cycled a little over 45 kilometres (spread over 3 beginner sessions) in August. Every attempt to replicate that failed this week - work and personal chores took up the majority of my time and energy. The weather has been cozy af so I couldn't drag my zero-willpower ass out of bed in the mornings. Will have to make proactive changes to restart my cycling streak next week.
Was pumped for IndieWeb Club #9, but I ended up working full-time over the weekend. I've had to cancel twice now out of the three times I've booked a ticket for IndieWeb Club. The pattern is worrying, but I'm hoping it doesn't become a trend.
I've been using the nasal spray that I was prescribed every night the last week. While I can't speak to the efficacy of sleep (given how broken my sleep cycle was this week), I can say that it's made breathing much easier. It's almost as if the medication that qualified doctors prescribe for you work well if you stick to the prescription!
Media
Continued reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams this week. Progress is slower than I would have liked. That is mostly because of the convoluted note-taking system I've been testing out: coloured sticky notes to mark highlights in the book, quotes and annotations written by hand in a different book. Seems like a lot of work to be doing when the intention is to simply read.
The book itself leaves me a bit queasy since it's hard to empathise with the author when you know she was part of the problem as well. You're reading about a company that has engaged in quite a lot of bastardy behaviour, and for most, it is a confirmation of the beliefs they already had about Meta and how it works. It remains to be seen whether my views of the author change in the coming chapters.
Next up in my to-read pile is Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. It's kind of shameful that I've not read it until now given the cultural gravity and prescience this book has. Better late than never, I guess?