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Weeknotes for 2024-05-02

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Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

This week has been active on the blog, as I’ve been trying to include more links I find here, as opposed to simply sharing them on Mastodon. I’ve also had a hectic week at work, so I’m ending the week quite wiped.1

This week:

  • Released version of 0.3.0 of django-markov, which adds the ability to add to an existing corpus without regenerating the Markov chain.

  • Released version 0.5.0/0.5.1 of django-quotes, which incorporates the changes from django-markov to get some performance gains when adding new quotes to an existing model.

  • Upgraded our daughter’s 3/4 size violin to a full size, and converted our rental to a purchase. She’s growing so fast!

  • For Explorers Wanted:

    • Updated the backend service for the quote bot in our EW Discord to the above releases.

    • Released episode 227, Refreshments and Revolutionaries.

      The crew hits up a food cart with rare cuisine and Ezri meets with revolutionaries in the tunnels.

      Watch on YouTube: Refreshments and Revolutionaries (Episode 227 Teaser)

    • Experienced some blissful joy by having finished the edit for this week’s episode six days early.

    • Started planning out our recording schedule for summer so that we can maintain a backlog of episodes for editing. We keep veering dangerously close to requiring a change in our release schedule in order to keep up. The two easiest solutions would be to keep the recording schedule the same but release episodes biweekly for a time, or to take a hiatus to build up a backlog. I am loath to do either, and so our focus for the moment is scheduling more make-up recordings.

  • Read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, which I found lovely and sad in the best way.

  • Started watching Dead Boy Detectives on Netflix. I’m about three episodes in, and while I’m enjoying it, I can’t yet decide if it’s actually good.2 I’m also unsure how the producers are going to reconcile it with season two of Sandman when it releases the Season of Mists arc, which is where the eponymous detectives have their origin in the comics.

  • Admired the blooms of our trees alongside honoring the never-ending sneezes of allergy season.

    Macro photo of red blooms on a dogwood tree
    Our dogwood tree
    A redbud tree standing, its branches covered in small dark pink blossoms
    Our redbud tree
    Close photo of branches with delicate pink cherry blossoms
    Our cherry tree

And that’s it for this week!

  1. This isn’t an encouraging state to be in, as I leave again for the Netherlands this Saturday, and I’m already dreading the jet lag induced sleep deprivation. ↩︎

  2. I felt similarly about season two of Good Omens, which I’m happy I watched, but doubt I would revisit. Hopefully, that won’t be the case with this one. ↩︎

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