Status Report - Week 3 2026

Real life

When it's winter, folks are sick and your wife has many students coming to your home for their classes, there's almost no chance you don't get sick as well. Our family followed this rule, with Lyla and Nathalie impacted :'(

On the tech side, we bought a new dishwasher 2 months ago since the previous one died and ... drumroll... it's already having problems! The super duper feature to automagically open the door towards the end of a programme to improve drying works so well that we can't close this f.ing door anymore! If you block it with a chair, everything works, so we have a workaround, but we have had to book a repair with Siemens, and someone will come next week. I don't care about fancy features, I just want machines that work - why can't we have super simple ones!?!

On the reading side, I have finished the excellently depressing Pauvre petit blanc, and started The Silmarillion. So I have not increased the number of books I'm reading in parallel (remember I'm also on Guerres oubliées) but I have not decreased either...

I had a good week in terms of running, with 7 runs for a total of 37.12 km, and an OK one at GeoGuessr, with 6 wins out of my 20 "counting games" (12 out of 29 overall).

Open source

I have finally decided to buy a new laptop, and I have received it this week \o/ This means that I did not contribute much to open source this week, because I spent quite some time to set everything up and tune GNOME to my liking.

The good news is that this laptop is vastly more powerful than the pretty old hardware I was working on, so build times for GCC or Servo are good, and I can consider contributing again to those projects!

Speaking of GCC, I took a relatively easy ticket as a warm-up exercise, and merged a fix.

I still had a bit of time to work on SourceHut, fixing an issue with settings propagation from mailing lists to the projet hub, and submitting an iteration of my patch to bring a GraphQL API to this hub.

This last patch triggered a good discussion about IDs and won't be merged, but expect some activity on this topic in the coming days.