Weeknotes: Week #20 (2026)

This week was relatively quiet all things considered, all the “excitement” was at work related to things I cannot share yet :)

We had two big meetings this week with leadership, first the R&D All Hands with our engineering leadership and then celebrating the Bengaluru office’s 1st year with the people who helped make it happen. The All Hands was used to peddle some more apologia for the layoffs last week and lay the path forward. Wasn’t super convincing, and I think I was better off not hearing any of it. The other call was less depressing, but I could’ve done without that one too. Not great for the brainworms :)

What I can share though, is that our Product Manager Korinne Alpers is visiting the India office, and we’ve been having a lot of productive discussions about the team and product’s future. I’ve come out of the week feeling much more hopeful about what’s in store for my team and I.

Other than that, I started the week off by discovering the keyboard that I bought for my birthday did have wireless support, hidden behind a switch whose position I can only describe as chaotic evil.

A keyboard with a light blue aluminium frame, with its Caps Lock keycap removed. Below where the key would sit, next to the key switch there is a physical on/off switch that enables the keyboard's wireless features. — I was so mad at this

Surprisingly I received a pull request for a project of mine: kage. It’s a Kotlin library that implements the age cryptography protocol, originally written for use in Android Password Store. Unsurprisingly, the CI pipeline needed some fixing :) Glad to see people using this library though, given I don’t get to work on this too much.

On Friday, the boys got together for a movie in a very long time! Yash, Mayank, Swapnil and I went to see Hokum. We all liked it a lot, the horror elements felt very well done without relying too much on the trite jumpscares that seem to be the only way horror gets done these days.

Having read the Silo books this year I was excited to finally pick up the Silo TV series this week. I got through a couple of episodes, and I’m starting to realise why so many people say they felt checked out pretty quickly. Already knowing the story makes it easy to maintain some suspense for what’s coming but for someone who hasn’t read the books there seems to be next to nothing to hook them into it. I’m told Season 2 is even worse at this so maybe I won’t end up finishing the whole thing.

Not a lot of cooking this week, contributed in part by cooking bigger portions, being lazy, and just not being home on time. You’re still owed pictures though :)

A bowl of hearty lentils and white rice. The lentils were cooked with some sauted onions and tomatoes. — Some days a good old bowl of dal chawal just hits right

A spicy curry made with red kidney beans, sitting in a big saucepot. It clearly looks half empty, since we had already served ourselves. — The rajma is just a staple at this point