Status Report - Week 49 2025
Real life
The main event this week is that we are now the owners of the apartment we've been renting for a few years - we were not particularly looking to buy, but circumstances were such that it was the right thing to do, and we're happy.
It was also the opportunity to discover a whole ecosystem of people you have to give money to to be able to buy, and whose "added value" is not always very clear... a topic for a separate post :-)
This weekend, we welcomed the pets of friends, Fifi (dog) and Chatouille (cat), and it was a great way of showing the kids that having pets is quite some work... I have good hopes that the "Why can't we have a dog?" discussions stop for a little while.
I finished reading La Révolution française, that I did not like very much; I think I tried to punch above my weight: my knowledge of the period is too limited for this book to be "useful" to me.
I also read Et tuez-les partout où vous les trouverez by Abou Djaffar (who I discovered in an episode of Le Collimateur), that was excellent.
I did not run much (18.47km), but walked a lot more than usual (16.12km), courtesy of Fifi :-)
Finally, my GeoGuessr week was good: I finished 18th at my Gold I division, which is mediocre but I'm happy enough with. And I enjoy my new strategy to not worry too much about the 20 first games (that I generally lose because my opponents are much better than I am) and play a lot more (against people at my level). I'm a lot less frustrated, and feel that I progressing more - win-win!
Open source
It was a quiet week in terms of coding, partly because of housing stuff, pet stuff, watching some re:Invent keynotes, and fighting with disk space (yeah I'm looking at you stupid WSL ticket).
Still I did a few things, in SourceHut as usual: