Weeknote #21 (20250209-20250215)
meta
so, it turns out that the ongoing slow roll destruction of the government you’re living under is not great for productivity. who would’ve thunk.
did
- half-watched the Chiefs have an utterly disastrous Superb Owl game
- kept plugging away at abstracting/refining all my 11ty site configs into a single shared lib
- gym’d Monday (shoulder rehab + deadlifts), Wednesday (shoulder rehab + DB split squats), and Friday (shoulder rehab + more deadlifts)
- at work, plugged away at the website Pages Router to App Router port/refactor — got everything working on friday; now i need to decide whether to refactor how the page i’m porting gets the blob of data that makes it go to do more work server-side…
- it snowed thursday! which was mostly fine until later in the day when the precipitation switched over to “wintry mix” and it got kinda messy
- school was canceled both thursday and friday, so Mx18 lucked into a 5 day weekend
- i was supposed to see an orthopod about my bum shoulder on friday, but it ended up getting pushed a week out due to the weather — kinda bummed about this, as i’m growing increasingly weary of my shoulder always aching at some low level
read
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Data Engineers Should Be Held To The Same Standards As Bakers:
Instead of looking for catharsis in a post-mortem after a project fails, I subscribe to the idea that we need to raise our expectations of the quality of the things we generate. We spend an enormous amount time in meetings, typing on a computer, and pushing code to production. It’s unacceptable to chalk up non-delivery to “we didn’t get the scope right”.
listened
watched
- Still binging S2 of NCIS: New Orleans with TheWife
cooked
- sausages & peppers – kind of a combo of the sausage part of this one and the aioli part of this other one, monday
- roast chicken with spring mix side salad, tuesday
- london broil with asparagus, wednesday
- tuna fish sammies, thursday
photo
…upon due reflection, it’s still stupid snow and i still hate its assface