Weeknotes #110
Another lap around the sun.
Paul Mucur
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Weeknotes #109
Two hours on the tarmac, Vin Diesel at 30,000ft, time limits, the tale of Jaden's iPad, and an imagined father of two.
Weeknotes #108
The one name policy, hinge bits, thermal cut-outs, setting sand, and an unexploded bomb.
Weeknotes #107
The big city, the world of Home Assistant, and slow CI builds.
Weeknotes #106
Dietary advice, Ray Mears, and Rakefiles.
Weeknotes #105
Between two birthdays, repairing plastic, 113 individual checks, and overenthusiastic bots.
Weeknotes #104
The Lake District, highly polished balls of mud, The Good Life, and averting Lego-based catastrophe on the motorway.
2023 Yearnotes
Disorganised thoughts on the past year.
Weeknotes #103
Travelling to Brighton, migrating to Porkbun, and self-hosting GitHub Actions runners.
Weeknotes #102
Another holiday, a cousin calculator, the dangers of i-SPY, the inhumanity of siblings, and avoiding thinking about computers.
Weeknotes #101
A trip abroad, winding up my company, hearing aids and failing to discipline.
Weeknotes #100
Self-hosting Mastodon, MIME negotiation for Rails APIs take two and tooting with abandon.
Weeknotes #99
Pulling keycaps, a refactoring wishlist and the virtue of leaving jobs.
Weeknotes #98
Hosting YARD documentation on GitHub Pages, pattern matching and the IKEA nesting instinct.
Weeknotes #97
Not saving money on a Sonos Port, an update to re2 and telling a lie.
Weeknotes #96
Fewer pills, more ducks, being wrong about database transactions, scratching someone else’s car and carpet fitting.
Weeknotes #95
Weeding, filing, finishing video games, a spa town called home, parenting hell and a butt full of rain.
Weeknotes #94
Birthdays.
Weeknotes #93
Soldering remote control cars, emotional furniture, noodling with Tailscale, finishing The Last of Us Part II and the relationship between pasta and running.
Weeknotes #92
Testing negative, a leaky gutter, failing to block YouTube videos, compressing assets with Propshaft and recording video game sounds with OBS.
Weeknotes #91
Testing positive.
Weeknotes #90
MIME negotiation and the Accept header in Rails APIs, detecting client disconnects and the guilty pleasure of action films.
Weeknotes #89
Improved lighting, de-duplicating photos in Shortcuts, sourdough variations, rusty Clojure and too many YouTube videos.
Weeknotes #88
A seemingly impossible puzzle, avoiding lost updates, fridge drains and draughts.
Weeknotes #87
Types of ambulance, expecting the worst, someone else doing a better job, reverse engineering a nursery app and immense satisfaction.
Weeknotes #86
Archiving recipes, making family tech support less frustrating, the kindness of neighbours and migrating away from Sprockets and Webpacker.
Weeknotes #85
A stack of books, YouTube weaning, Treat Days and exactly one weather app.
Weeknotes #84
Correcting mistakes, end-of-year podcast episodes, the best loaves yet, house pride and why you should have some Steri-Strips in your first aid kit.
2021 Yearnotes
Another year of notes.
Weeknotes 109
Switching to Apple Silicon, focus, securing wall plugs and needing a cuddle.
Weeknotes 108
Nuzzling, replacing Enzyme, Tailwind CSS and our current TV rotation.
Weeknotes 105–107
A future gourmand, skipping a generation, HTTP headers and a backlog of Starmix.
Weeknotes 95–104
Numbering, a false start to a holiday, learning CSS, moving S3 static websites and an end to DIY.
Weeknotes 83–94
The past twelve weeks in summary.
Weeknotes 80–82
Legally baht ’at, checklists, vaccinations and the Will of the Wisps.
Weeknotes 79
Watermarking PDFs, alarming conditionals and other Computation Clubs.
Weeknotes 78
Conveyancing, ice packs on my laptop and a norny.
Weeknotes 77
Duggee o’clock, wall repair, ten hours of Worship the Sun, terrific tedium and a hot tub made of tweed.
Weeknotes 76
Rushing, playing Worship the Sun and a very first haircut.
Weeknotes 75
Wasps, requiring Ruby 3.0, buses of all sizes, the finished Tree Delta-based importer and a surprising lullaby.
Weeknotes 74
The fate of the AirPod, Calky, an ancient robot in the consultation room, a SOAP integration and ASCII trees.
Weeknotes 73
Rabbits, livecheck, how to stop clobbering files, relative font sizing, seemingly innocuous bugs and a single AirPod.
Weeknotes 72
Very hot dough, all the toy cars, re2 1.3.0 and how do you solve a problem like WordPress?
Weeknotes 71
Getting busted by Nintendo, who is fantastic when gymnastics is what you need, a greenfield Rails application and being spooked by Facebook.
Weeknotes 70
Fixing Joy-Con drift, a surprise encounter with my favourite type of duck, parsing Data URLs and a wardrobe malfunction.
Weeknotes 69
A lot of hours writing YAML, pancake day, channelling Elon Musk and product names that maximise embarrassment in Homebase.
Weeknotes 68
Hoarding tools, the trap of doing jobs and a new buzzword.
Weeknotes 67
Bidding our flat farewell, attempting to apply for probate and a new reason to tease me.
Weeknotes 66
Project managing life decisions and what even is pudding?
Weeknotes 65
Separating out weeknotes, scaling a Rails application, plugging a memory leak and a little boat, no bigger than your hand.