Status Report - Week 48 2025

Dec 1, 2025

Real life

The highlight of the week was the Gojira concert in Lille on Friday evening. While it was my third (or fourth?) time seeing them (the first being 20 years and 3 days before), it was the first for Lyla and Anton, who really liked it. The band was excellent, as usual, and I'm looking forward to (at least) 20 more years regularly attending their concerts :-)

Here are a few pictures. Note the drone powered whale on "Flying whale" :-)

Flying whale

Band playing

Band saluting

I finished reading Par le fer et par le feu, and learnt a lot about naval combat on the Atlantic ocean in the 17th and 18th centuries (sic). I continue in the field of history, with La Révolution française, that might confirm my suspicion that the situation in France and the world is becoming close to what it was a bit before 1789... we'll see.

My running continues to be mediocre, with a mere 13.4 km this week. It's partly explained by my having more fun coding than running, and I need to balance things out better.

Finally, my GeoGuessr week was not great, but OK. I have realized that I don't really deserve to be in the Gold I division (in other words, the folks there are much better than I currently am :-)), so my strategy is now to:

Quickly get it over with the first 20 games, that do count for the week's division ranking, and are against folks from that division,
Then play a lot more games, that don't count for the division ranking (but still do for my ELO) and are more useful and interesting, because I'm playing against folks with a level close to mine.

Open source

As usual, the bulk of my work was in the SourceHut ecosystem:

The work to allow users to control what actions trigger builds is merged \o/ The main patches are git.sr.ht, hub.sr.ht, and sr.ht-docs
Right after, I migrated sr.ht-integration-testing to use this instead of the hacks I had written
I resurrected my work to expose build information (e.g. git hash and build date) in the version GraphQL API.

I also announced the first monthly release of sr.ht-integration-testing, and took the opportunity of my annual plan with IRCCloud expiring soon to migrate everything IRC to chat.sr.ht (and that's another 5-ish bucks saved per month :-)).