Weeknotes for 2023-05-28
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these. The last few work weeks1 have been so busy that by the end of the Friday work day I’ve been too tired to write a post. But I’m back home after a week overseas and it’s a long weekend, so let’s use this opportunity to catch up.
Over the last few weeks:
- Reading
- I read and enjoyed The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. It’s a wicked horror novella that takes fairy tale of The Little Mermaid and turns it on it’s head with an eldritch apocalypse.
- Inadvertently started my reread of the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. As you do.
- Watching
Watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special, which was cute, but mostly forgettable, with one exception: the Old 97s performing a delightfully weird song.
Watch on YouTube: "I Don't Know What Christmas Is (But Christmas Time is Here)" Watched Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which was also mostly forgettable, which is a shame because Jonathan Major’s performance as Kang is very good.
Starting watch Silo on AppleTV+. I’m only four episodes in, but it’s compelling as hell.
- Development
- Contributed a small patch to django-stubs to help address an error where the
db_commentargument introduced in Django 4.2 wasn’t being recognized as valid. - Contributed support for BSD-3-Clause to the mz-lictools project.
- Also contributed support for selected elements of the Podcast Index namespace to podcastparser, which I needed for an analysis project I was working on.
- Contributed a small patch to django-stubs to help address an error where the
- Explorers Wanted
Been having a ball releasing the episodes from our mini-campaign of Die RPG. It’s eight episodes in total, and the latest one, part 5, was released just this last week.
Watch on YouTube: "Welcome Home, Part 5 (Episode 178 Teaser)"
And that’s it!
A note on format: going forward I’m going to skip giving any work-related recaps because you don’t need to hear about my meetings. ↩︎