Weeknotes: Week #12 (2026)
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Published: March 22, 2026

Life

As I mentioned last week, I watched Iron Lung on Monday. Only the premium cinemas were running shows so I had to buy an expensive ticket at PVR Director’s Cut, and got to watch it in a reclining chair that was basically a bed. Loved the movie, Markiplier did great work as both director and actor. Hopefully we can get a couple more of these authentic video game recreations from individual creators before the suits at Hollywood figure out how to ruin them even more.

Iron Lung was a great watch I was back in the office this week, work was mostly CI and suffering. On Wednesday I got caught out in the hailstorm on my way back from the office. Thankfully I didn’t catch anything from that, but I did have to figure out how to wash my shoes which was surprisingly easy — thanks Skechers.

It was 30 degree Celsius at noon, and by 6 PM I was getting pelted by hail! Toys

I had been saving up to gift myself a new keyboard and mouse for my birthday, and ended up making it an early gift by placing the orders this week. I went with the Wobkey Rainey75 keyboard and a VXE R1 Pro Max mouse. The mouse arrived today, surprisingly in white rather than the purple/lavender I thought I had chosen. Clearly I made a mistake during the order, but I’m quite happy with it regardless. It’s been a long time since I had a wireless mouse and it’s such a massive difference from my wired Razer Viper Mini. Also nice to have a working scroll wheel again :')

I also bought myself a microphone arm so I could get a bit more desk space, and struggled through a few bouts of stupidity before realizing that I needed an additional screw to plug my Blue Yeti into the standard 3/8 inch mounts that feature in the microphone arms. I ordered said screw from Amazon, set it all up today and when I went to put the old desk stand in the box I realized that the screw actually came with the microphone and I am just a one-of-a-kind dumbass.

I had been bracing for pricing changes for my Netcup VPS, and it finally arrived this week. I run a pretty small ARM VPS at Netcup so my costs are only going from 5.84 EUR to 6.92 EUR, a hit I can take for the time being. Really unfortunate that the unprofitable companies propping up the AI bubble have so much access to free capital that they’re destabilizing the whole industry.

Books

I installed Calibre-Web last week, and spent most of this week doing manual housekeeping on the 40 or so books I own. Cleaning up metadata, syncing read states, setting up shelves — a lot of frankly pointless work that will hopefully make life easier in the long run. At IndieWebClub I tried to give Tanvi her own account on my instance, but hadn’t realized that we’d have to share the library. I’ve set up a shelf for my books so we can hopefully rely on that to work around the problem.

With my reading goal quite lagging, I finally finished off The Wizard Hunters that I started reading on February 6. I usually get through a book in 2 to 3 weeks, but this was slow both because it was technically two books in one and hence around 700 pages in length, and because I was just not reading as often the past few weeks. I want to read Project Hail Mary before I watch the movie, so hopefully reading this in the next week will put me back on track for my goal of reading 24 books a year.

Writing

At IndieWebClub this week I finished off and published the post about securing Calibre-Web behind Caddy and Pocket ID.

And finally, the food

As I promised last week, with the missing Cloudflare R2 integration in my CMS no longer being an excuse for not showing off the food I keep talking about, here is some of the food I made this week.

I had some chicken breast lying around in the freezer and an overwhelming desire to consume it, so I threw together a pretty simple pasta sauce using tomato and cream, cooked the chicken in it and then tossed it with pasta and some spices. I used the air fryer to quickly toast some sourdough bread I had and that was dinner and the next day’s breakfast.

Behold, the pasta. Another night I ordered some nachos with my groceries so I put together a simple salad to go with the nachos. Apparently this is called “cowboy caviar” in the US of A. I made this on a whim so I didn’t have kidney beans, but I did get some feta cheese and it came out very nice. Bright flavors, super satiating, lots of fiber. What’s not to like?

Breakfast of champions or something I don't know. Yash was back home on Saturday so we went back to our classic rajma (kidney beans) gravy which I supplemented with a side of raita.

Feels like home.