🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W17

2025-04-27 16:34

Some random front-of-mind pieces from my week.

🏃 Ran 11.4km / 107m profile

🚴 Rode 49km / 637m - The photos at the bottom are from the ride today. Beautiful weather to be riding around the rivers.

🌱 We got the first decent frost for the year which turned my tomatoes pretty quickly. There's still some red fruit on the plants so picking them off as I need, but not expecting too much more from them. I chopped down the old corn in the backyard. I didn't get anything from these. The soil was too shallow. Beans did ok there though, so will consider that for next year. My indoor plants are going a bit bonkers, with the monstera hitting the ceiling. I'm going to double down and turn my house into a forest.

📝 Wrote a couple of longer pieces. Maybe not for everyone, but I enjoyed doing it. I tried not to get frustrated with my inability to stay on topic, and just went with it.

🍜 Cooking up Julius' miso ramen recipe AGAIN because it is so damn good.

💻 Went a bit darker in my terminal, using gogh's Terminix Dark theme, which is quite pleasant.

💻 Spent a bit more time in Gemini, discovering a bunch of different nooks like aggregates, bulletin board systems (BBS), and a bunch of new gemlogs. I think it's quite active in there despite what you hear. At least I think it is a nice level of activity.

💻 Tools

• tmux - Decided to give this terminal multiplexer a go over my usual zellij as I noticed you get more screen real-estate. I'm not a power-user of these so the switch is going ok for my very basic use. I'm still using the default key bindings, but think I'll look into quicker pane-switching options. I've got it going on my Raspi server too which works from the console.

📚 Reading Babel by R.F. Kuang. Early days. Haven't read a book like this for a while. It's beefy, and first of a trilogy, but I do like the writing. It's one of those academia meets sci-fi type books I think. Look forward to where it will go.

📺 Watched

• Black Bag (2025) - Not a bad flick about a husband and wife who are both spies. Lots of double and triple crossing. Nice slow pace.

• Mobland Season 1 (2025) - Loving this gangster series with Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan was in Black Bag too by coincidence.

🎧 Listening to...

• MODcase - I can't keep up with all the online radios I stumble across. This ones very retro.

• Indie Beat Radio - Electronic - And another. I gotta stop.

🕸️ Currently reading across the weird web

• Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds | Christopher Butler
• Didicosm | Greg Egan
• Underground - Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier | Suelette Dreyfus