Status Report - Week 6 2026

Feb 9, 2026

Real life

We're getting closer to the kids' winter vacation - one more week before we go skiing \o/

Speaking of winter, this week was also the start of the Olympics, which already gave me lots of emotions:

The French cross country ski team made us proud at the men's skeleton (Hugo Lapalus is 100% my favourite nordic skier), and Klaebo demonstrated once again that he's from another world
The French biathlon mixed relay team was outstanding (and Julia Simon is the best ever [1]).

I think that winter Olympics don't make any sense any more, and I am mad that we will organize the 2030 ones in France [2], but since they take place, I'm supporting the athletes with all my heart.

I did not only watch TV, and finished Myth of self-esteem, and started Overcoming the rating game. Both might seem old but I find them super relevant.

I had an OK week in terms of running, with 24.63 km, and a mediocre one at GeoGuessr, with 6 wins out of my 20 "counting games" (17 out of 36 overall). This was (un)fortunately not bad enough to be demoted to Gold II, which I think would be deserved... maybe next week :-)

I feel like I'm talking about a change in my GeoGuessr strategy in every status report, and this week's no exception. I realized that I'm basically never training: all my games are competitive and count for my ELO, which does not make any sense - you have to train to compete! So I'm implementing yet another rule: if more than 2/3 of my games in a day are competitive, my tracking sheet turns all red. We'll see if this "shaming me into training more" strategy works.

Open source

This was another quiet week coding wise, with just a bit of work to bring a GQL API to SourceHut's project hub:

I iterated on pre-requisite patches to generalize "Resource IDs" (main patch and follow-up)
I sent another iteration of the read APIs patch
And started to prototype write APIs (pre-requisite patch)

I also spent a bit of time reviewing a bunch of unreviewed aerc patches.

[1] She could be better outside of biathlon; see why she was banned by the French federation from the first 3 world cup stages this year...

[2] See for instance Le crépuscule des Jeux