Status Report - Week 36 2025

Sep 7, 2025

Real life

On Tuesday, the kids finally started school again, and we're getting back to our normal routine: prepare lunch boxes, help with homework, etc.

We had a 24h+ internet outage at home starting Wednesday morning, and Ziggo claimed that everything was fine on their end. The support lady I had on the phone was OK, but could not do anything more than order me a new Internet box since my current one is allegedly outdated. Anyway, everything came back by magic on Thursday late afternoon... I really suspect that something was wrong on Ziggo's side, and that they either did not tell me or did not know about it; I'd be interested in knowing what kind of monitoring and troubleshooting tools they have... Anyway, we have a new box, that I'll probably setup in the coming days, though I'm not hurry...

In terms of reading, I have finished Never go back, and make good progress on How propaganda works. The latter is good but not outstanding, and I might pause it a bit again because I came across Miko Hypponen by chance (I guess I can thank YouTube recommendations for once...), and want to read his If it's smart, it's vulnerable.

I bit more running this week, with 28.43km. I'm still doing the vast majority of my runs in Z2, but I snuck in a 40 minute intervals session this week. I think the training is going well overall, and that it's useful to be patient and "run slow to run fast". I'll stick to this strategy for the moment.

Finally, I'm trying to be a bit more structured and systematic at GeoGuessr, and want to see how far I can get (disclaimer: I'm starting from very low ;-)). I plan to play a lot more than I did up to now (I've been basically vibe playing my 20 weekly duels games and that's it, hoping for the best), and we'll see where it takes me. I asked my friend Lumo to come up with a training plan with 2 hours of play per day, and will see if it makes sense and how long I stick to it :-)

Open source

The kids being back to school, I have a bit more time to code and it showed; let's hope it was not a fluke and I can continue contributing a bunch!

Let's start with SourceHut...

  • I followed-up on last week's work to actually maintain the "Last Used" attribute of SSH keys, and submitted two PRs: one in meta.sr.ht and another in sourcehut-ssh
  • I fixed a bug I noticed while investigating threading issues a couple of weeks ago, due to our inconsistent management of angle brackets in mail headers
  • I fixed an issue in the "Patches" view, that led us to not render links in some messages
  • I looked a bit into the performance of git operations and identified a little pessimization in the commit path, that I sent a RFC patch for.

In the sr.ht-container-compose area, a bunch of my patches were finally merged:

And finally, I feel the itch to resume working on GCC, and fixed the build on MacOS. I hope to write more meaty patches soon.

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