🗓️ Weeknote 2025-W31

2025-08-03 15:36

✈️ I'm on holidays. Hoorah. I'll be keeping this weeknote short so I can get to the airport relaxed. Week was pretty uneventful anyway. I'll be on a flight in a few hours time. I won't be posting here for a couple of weeks. I'll be posting from Vietnam over here. This is the RSS feed link if you want to follow along. It is just going to be easier posting from Pika. I haven't set this one up properly for posting via my phone, and have opted against taking my laptop.

🗓️ It's a new month. Plastic Free July is over and Blaugust begins (I'm not participating, however I look forward to seeing my feed fill up with writing from those who are). Regarding PFJ, I got back in the habit of making my own granola, choccy cake, and humus, and substituted my usual yoghurt purchases with a glass-jar one. New month means I turn the page on my calendar. This is the new photo "Remarkables at sunrise" taken July 18, 2024:

💻 Tools

• Simple open html file button Firefox plugin (Android) - I have a couple of books as HTML files saved on my phone that I want to take with me while travelling for offline reading. Surprisingly I couldn't open them in Firefox easily from my File Browser/Open with.. optionm. This wee plugin has saved the day.

• lofi-player - a minimalist playlist music player for the terminal. I know I can create playlists elsewhere, but I like going into this one with a one-tool-one-purpose approach, and using it for focus playlists only.

• mastodeck.com - a Mastodon web-based client that allows me to hide media and link previews so my feed is text-only. I find that a bit easier on the senses. Better for focused reading and less distracting images and things.

📺 Watched

• True Detective Season 1 (2014) - Thoroughly enjoyed. Dark.

🎧 Listening to...

• VV & The Void - Elevator to the Unknown - Bit of a dark gothic like feel to this one.

• Tropical F*ck Storm - Fairyland Codex - Haven't given these guys a proper listen, but I'm a fan of Gareth Liddiard and The Drones. On first listen it was a cracker. I'll be going for a few more rounds on my flights.

🕸️ Currently reading across the web

• My favourite aliens | Caffeine & Laser - I really enjoyed Cameron's take on the Liu Cixin books... around the transfer of information via different forms of communication, how communication has different dimensions... I've got some reading to do.

• A Month of Running | Kev Quirk - Sounds like a slow and steady progression is working really well for Kev. Kudos for sticking with his routine.

• Travel-sketchbooks | Winnie Lim - These are way cool.

Activity Stats

🏃 Run [3] 3:30:26 - 35.7km - 1098m
🤸 Pilates [2] 0:43:54
🚶 Walk [1] 0:30:31 - 2.6km - 36m

🏁 Total: 6 activities - 4:44:52 - 38.3km - 1134m