Status Report - Week 34 2025

Real life

We're slowly getting closer to the end of the vacation period, and focus on chilling and charging the batteries for the year ahead. One friend of Lyla's comes home for one week, but it won't be a lot of work for us, because they're old and autonomous enough to know how to occupy and take care of themselves.

We finished watching season 2 of Tracker, that obviously ends with a plot twist... I really like this show, and look forward to season 3 (and maybe reading before that the book it's inspired from, The Never Game).

Speaking of reading, I started How propaganda works, so far interesting but a bit heavier / philosophy oriented than that author's more recent work. To balance this, I decided to resume the Jack Reacher series in parallel, with Never go back.

Finally, I'm back to running and did 22.87km of pure zone 2. Let's see how long I manage to keep ~80% of my training in this zone, and what the effects are.

Open source

I only worked on SourceHut this week, in particular on a threading issue in the mailing list software. It was fun in multiple ways:

• It's a bit of an Heisenbug, and I love detective work :-) I had to go old school and just read the code and think of what could go wrong.
• I did not find a real fix, so sent an RFC patch that started a good discussion, got me to read and learn about transactions in Postgres and come up with a real fix that I'm actually comfortable with \o/