Notes for the Week #2 (2026)

This week note covers the week of 5th–11th January.

Life#

This week has been quite uneventful. I’m back to work after a break. The infamous Bangalore traffic is back and worse than before. The weather has become cold again, but this time we are better prepared. We stayed home all the week, sipping on hot beverages and occasionally eating fried stuff.

Health#

I decided to walk 10000 steps every day starting this week. And I did it!

I actually did better than the goal—I walked over 11000 steps every day. I felt less bloated and more energetic. The downside was the continuous soreness and tiredness. I had to take naps to recover from the fatigue. Thankfully, now my body is getting used to it and I feel less exhausted. I’ve also started stretching daily, which I feel helps me recover faster.

Personal Work#

Because I spent so much time walking and napping and being otherwise tired, I didn’t do anything else much. I tried to pick up Advent of Code again, and did solve the part 1 of the day 10 with the Breadth-first search algorithm, but the 2nd part requires the A* algorithm, and I was too tired to write it. Worry not, I’ll get to it soon.

Meanwhile, I shipped some minor changes to my website. I added some checkboxes in the Notes page to dim the week notes and link notes, because there are too many of them, and they drown out other notes. I also removed post tags and like/repost counts from the post listings on the homepage. Now it’s a minimal page with only post dates and titles.

Recent Posts#

I wrote a post about how I use Jujutsu, the new VCS that my friend Ankur got me hooked onto. The post has been on the Lobsters front page for 21 hours at the time of writing this note. I also posted it on Programming subreddit and Hacker News, but it got no traction there 🤷🏽‍♂️.

Watching, Reading, Listening#

I spent a lot of time this week—in my aforementioned state of tiredness—watching The Ancient Magus’ Bride season 2. It’s a bit of a slow burn, but it’s definitely one of the good anime in the recent years. I’m still sad about the terrible season 3 of One Punch Man 😢.

I listened to a lot of music this week, mostly while on walks. Somewhere in middle, I got bored of playing music from the 21st century, and switched to music from the last century. Dreams Tonite by Alvvays was my top track this week.

Interesting Internet Links#

• There and Back Again
• The Second Great Error Model Convergence
• Notes on fusion

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