I got inspired by Abhinav and Ankur last week to start writing weeknotes, so I spent that weekend setting up my existing journaling system to expose weeknote-relevant entries in a nice single page view (you can read about that here). This is the first weeknote as a direct result of that, being written at IndieWebClub #16!

  • I finished my personal reading goal of 24 books this year, being tracked here. Next year I wanna blend in a bit more non-fiction into this, and hopefully raise the count by a few more.
  • Continuing on the book front, I finished the last two short stories from the Murderbot series: Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory and Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy, and started reading Wool.
  • There was an alumni dinner for Obvious on Wednesday where we ended up with 20+ people at Idylll. Met a lot of people from before my time at Obvious, and caught up with the ones I did work with. Super fun experience, was very glad that I could make it.
  • My Telegram account got banned for no particular reason, likely by mass reporting by someone I pissed off and forgot about? I’ve reconvened on Discord for now but it’s clearly a problem that my primary communication platform can just evaporate overnight. I can set something up for myself but moving over friends is gonna be the real pain.
  • I watched Dhurandhar on Thursday with a couple of friends and it was great! Bit more gory than I expected from Bollywood and the CGI was a little iffy but the story and acting more than make up for it.
  • I tried getting back into Hollow Knight but the combat is not really working for me, so I’ll let the roguelike fever die down for a bit and pick up Control or Horizon Forbidden West which I’ve been sitting on for a while.
  • At work I’ve mostly been busy with the Kotlin 2.3.0 upgrade which has a lot performance improvements and additions relevant to our needs. I was able to get everything to work, but unfortunately can’t ship it without a compatible SKIE release. Hopefully soon!
  • I finally added search to this blog! It’s something I had wanted for a long while and being at IndieWebClub finally motivated me to execute on it. I’m pretty happy with the result, but I intend to customize the UI and search result ranking a bit since I saw some instances of tag pages being prioritized over the actual blog post using the tag.