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This week note covers the week of 29th December 2025–4th January 2026. Ramp walk This was a week of resting and having fun with family and friends. I was on vacation for most of the week. Life # We had another well-fed day on the 31st, starting with home-made biryani for lunch, and ordered pizza for dinner. We didn’t do much else, just chilled at home. On 1st January, all of us went to the Namma…

This week note covers the week of 29th December 2025–4th January 2026.

This was a week of resting and having fun with family and friends. I was on vacation for most of the week.

Life#

We had another well-fed day on the 31st, starting with home-made biryani for lunch, and ordered pizza for dinner. We didn’t do much else, just chilled at home. On 1st January, all of us went to the Namma Bengaluru Aquarium in the Cubbon Park. It was a lot of fun for our 3yo A. Afterward, we walked around in the park and A gathered a lot of cool sticks. What’s with kids liking sticks so much?

On the Saturday, we went to The Bangalore Berry Company farm to pick strawberries. The four hour drive (both ways) was a pain, but picking was fun. We also got some fresh vegies. My wife made a strawberry jam today, that I eagerly consumed with pancakes that she also made for breakfast. Alas, the two weeks of fun and frolic are over. I actually stayed in bed most of the day today to recover from all the fun ٭٭happy introvert noises٭٭.

Health#

I caught a bad cold early this week, caused by simply forgetting to put on a nightcap. Pleasures of being bald, I guess. Thankfully, I recovered in a few days.

After being able to walk over 9000 steps consistently every day, I’ve made it my daily goal to walk 10000 steps. This is partially inspired by my friend Sagrika, who did walk 10000 steps everyday in 2025. I hope it helps with reducing the weight I gained this festive season.

In other news, I have reading glasses now. Here I thought I’d go on forever with my eyesight sharp, but life had other plans. I just got them last week, and it is taking a while to get adjusted to having a thing in front of my face all the time.

Personal Work#

I again spent a lot of time working on the website this week. I promise, I’m done for now.

I changed the dead link checker to run only once a day. This significantly reduced the build time for the rest of 23 builds every day.
I moved the post similarity computations to run as a separate executable, which is run before the site generator is run, and outputs a JSON file with final data. Removing the computation from the site generator reduced the memory usage by a lot, and now I don’t get the alerts every hour.
I added bars in the similar posts section to indicate the post similarity scores for each linked post¹.
I added a popular posts and notes section on the homepage. I hope this makes it easier for first-time visitors to find their way around the site.
I added a Microblog Tag Graph page to explore my growing Microblog. It uses a force-directed graph made using d3.js. Let me know what you think about it in comments.

Watching, Reading, Listening#

I’m yet to start on a new book this year. However, I watched a lot of TV shows and one movie this week. Wife and I finished rewatching Interior Chinatown. I loved the show again, and I fully recommend it. I continue watching The Ancient Magus’ Bride, though with great sorrow, I decided to stop watching One Punch Man season 3. I’ve never seen such a great manga being turned into such—pardon my language Mr. Spellchecker—a shitshow. I’ve picked some new shows to watch this year, I hope they turn out good.

On 31st December, wife and I watched Burn After Reading, a dark comedy spy thriller. Watching Clooney and Pitt really made me feel like going out for a run or a ride.

Social Media#

My MastodonWrapped tells me that I spent a lot of time on Mastodon this year.

I liked 1800 posts and reposted over 1600 of them! I also posted 870 posts of my own. I gained 140 followers too!

Interesting Internet Links#

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