Weeknote #31 (20250420-20250426)

meta

Spring feels like it’s finally, actually, for-reals-this-time here, I started Couch To 5K (for the …fifth? time), and it was generally just kind of a week.

did

  • I iterated on the rubella dataset for most of the week; I think I’m closing in on “done”, or at least a “done” (IYKYK)
  • I also fixed a small bug in a totally different part of our codebase, as a treat
  • Personally, it was a bit of a “meh” week; highlight was probably grabbing lunch with Mx18 on Friday …oh and I ran my car through the car wash for the first time in a very long time

exercise & shoulder recovery

I need to start doing some form of cardio again; I’ve really been slacking on that. Since we’re getting into the nice weather part of the year here, I figured I’d do C25K again — I’ve done it several times, I know it works if I just put in the time — so I dusted off my copy of Zombies, Run! and knocked out three runs this week. (I still do not enjoy running.)

  • Sunday: morning stretches
  • Monday: morning stretches, C25K W1D1 in the afternoon (2.4 mi total)
  • Tuesday: morning stretches, abbreviated gym (shoulder stuff and Zottman curls) in the afternoon
  • Wednesday: morning stretches, C25K W1D2 in the afternoon (2.6 mi total)
  • Thursday: morning stretches, abbreviated gym (shoulder stuff and EZ-bar bicep curls) in the afternoon
  • Friday: morning stretches, C25K W1D3 in the afternoon (2.6 mi total)
  • Saturday: morning stretches, then late morning gym (shoulder stuff, deadlifts, Zottman curls)

read

  • I think I maybe found this via Corey Quinn’s Last Week in AWS, maybe? Anyway, it’s good — How to write with the Devil’s hand

    When we started Mule Design one of the very first rules we made for ourselves was that we would never grow beyond twelve people. I don’t know where that number came from, but it turned out to be right. Every single person we hired changed how we worked. We adapted. We didn’t hire people because they fit in, but more out of a curiosity about how adding that person would change us. We were built to adapt to people, rather than having people adapt to us. I had a way I worked. You had a way you worked. But how we worked together? That was an amazing mystery. And one we were always open to exploring. But to explore mystery, you need to be somewhere that respects the exploration and the mystery.

    If I were ever gonna start my own thing — which is just extraordinarily unlikely at this point, I think — I strongly suspect I would have a similar rule.

  • Flour, water, salt, GitHub: The Bread Code is a sourdough baking framework

    The Bread Code is centered around a book, The Sourdough Framework. It’s an open source codebase that self-compiles into new LaTeX book editions and is free to read online. It has one real bread loaf recipe, if you can call a 68-page middle-section journey a recipe. It has 17 flowcharts, 15 tables, and dozens of timelines, process illustrations, and photos of sourdough going both well and terribly. Like any cookbook, there’s a bit about Kleinwächter’s history with this food, and some sourdough bread history. Then the reader is dropped straight into “How Sourdough Works,” which is in no way a summary.

listened

watched

  • Mx18 checked Yesterday out from the library and we watched it Friday night — it was entertaining

cooked

  • grilled cheeseburgers on Sunday
  • grilled chicken Caesar on Monday
  • grilled sausages on Tuesday
  • grilled bavette steak and simple salad on Wednesday
  • grilled halibut and asparagus on Thursday

photo

Me too, rando grocery store packing lot car, me too

Me too, rando grocery store packing lot car, me too

looking forward to

Next week is my one year work anniversary! Time flies.