Status Report - Week 12 2026

Real life

It's been a pretty standard week, except for the fact that our (brand new) dishwasher caused problems again. We bought it in November 2025, and had to call in a technician at the end of January because the I-automatically-open-towards-the-end-so-that-things-dry-better door would not close (everything else works - you just need to block the door with a chair :-)). He fixed it, but it broke again, so we'll have another technician and I'll push to get a replacement. This is completely unacceptable, all the more for an 800 euro machine! Siemens is definitely not scoring points in our household...

I finished The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching and really loved it; you can expect me to mention more books about buddhism here in the future :-) I started reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, and in parallel resumed (after 8-ish years) Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development.

I had a slow week in terms of running, with only 15.72 km - I'll try to do more next week.

Finally, it was my first week in the Master IV division at GeoGuessr. Master IV and above work a bit differently: all the games count, you're only matched against folks with a similar level as you, and the end of week ranking is simply by ELO. I did not really like how "lower divisions" worked, so I'm happy, it's harder but fairer. I had a rollercoaster Sunday, losing a lot of games (with my ELO dropping below 550...) before I finally got my bearings back. I eventually finished at 713 ELO, ranked 19th of my group, enough to stay in Master IV \o/ Overall, I played 74 duels this week, winning 41.

Open source

I continued to do a bit of work on SourceHut:

• I submitted a fourth iteration to add write operations to the project hub's GraphQL API.
• I slowly started to look at migrating hub's webhook processing from Python to Go, and along the way identified a bug with repository deletion that I fixed.
• I submitted a new revision to hook up the hub's read GraphQL APIs in hut.

I also spent a bit of time working on servo:

• I fixed an annoying display issue in servoshell
• I spent some time investigating an issue with SVG scaling. I'm getting nowhere at the moment, but it's a good opportunity to learn about a domain I know nothing about
• I submitted a patch to fix a very minor WebGL compliance issue