Status Report - Week 46 2025

Real life

This week I spent quite some time at my kids' school: each had their "parent/teacher" meeting (that went unsurprisingly very well), and I participated to an "interview panel training" for last year high schoolers on Saturday.

I have a lot of opportunity to witness the sad state of education via Nathalie's business, and this session demonstrated two things yet again:

• The number of no-shows tells me that many students have 0 sense of responsibility, and have no problem cancelling engagements at the last minute because they just don´t feel like going...
• I'm 100x more hopeful for girls to succeed in life than boys. Boys are really lucky that society managed to shatter girls' self-confidence; when we manage to fix this, girls will simply destroy them.

I made good progress at The Lord of the Rings, and am pretty hopeful I will finish it this coming week. It will be good because the pile of other books I want to read is quickly growing ;-)

As usual, I listened to many podcast episodes, but the highlight this week was the discussion Steve Huynh had with Philip Su in his A life engineered podcast (you can watch it on Philip's Substack). I really love listening to Philip, and things clicked particularly well with Steve, giving us an oustanding episode.

I did not run that much this week - 19.88km - and had pretty good one at GeoGuessr, finishing the week ranked #9 in my Gold I division.

Open source

I improved sr.ht-integration-testing's daily test runner so that it's only triggered for pushes to master (I use branches quite extensively, and got sick of adding -o skip-ci to most my git push :-))

Funnily enough, I then discovered this SourceHut ticket that aims at doing something very similar, so took a stab at it. We're still iterating on the code review.

Still in the SourceHut ecosystem, I fixed a bug in my recent work on this ticket, fixed another schema.sql synchronization issue and send two patches to hut: this and that.