Status Report - Week 14 2026

Real life

It's been one of those weeks where you feel that you did a lot but not really, and you wonder where time went :-)

We spent some time taking care of the "bird situation" I mentioned last week: the space they occupied is now empty

and we built a box to fully close access

We just need to paint it and do some final assembly this week, but the neighbours are already appreciative of what we're doing, so everyone is happy :-)

Apart from that, we had a good long Easter weekend, with the regular "taking the kids to places", resting and a nice day trip to Dordrecht.

On the reading front, I finished Wild, and continued Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics. This book is excellent, with crystal clear explanations, and I'm really glad to have (a bit randomly) picked it up. It's a big one though, that I did not want to carry in the train to Dordrecht, so I've also started Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction.

The motivation to go out running is still nowhere to be found, and I logged a mere 22.82 km; let's hope spring fixes this.

Finally, I did not play much GeoGuessr, with 9 wins out of only 17 games. This was enough for me to finish 15th in my division, and stay in Master IV.

Open source

I continued working on a patch to migrate webhook processing in the SourceHut project hub from Python to Go. It's a lot of boring code to write, and most of the time was spent on continuing to increase the coverage of the associated tests in sr.ht-integration-testing.

After I added tests to cover all the "TODOs" I had left in the Go code as I was writing it, I am now confident that the Go code is good enough for submission. I plan to do it as soon as the current DDoS attack on SourceHut is mitigated.

This work depends on this patch that I was able to submit before the DDoS started.