Status Report - Week 45 2026

Real life

The highlight of the week was definitely KoRn's concert on Sunday, that I went to with Anton. I was a huge fan 20 years ago, and did not really follow them since (I have not listened to more than half the albums they have released...), and was thrilled that the vast majority of the songs they played were "from my time" e.g. old :-)

On the reading from, I finished The Nerd Reich that I found very interesting, and explains a lot of what we're seeing in the world of tech... scary stuff. I also started a book about the history of GPS, excellent so far, Little Blue Dot.

I barely ran - 4.72 km - to let my toe nails recover from the marathon, and played a lot of GeoGuessr with mediocre results - 35 wins out of 77 duels - bad enough to get me back to the Master IV division.

Open source

I did a bit of work on the SourceHut ecosystem:

• I sent a patch to streamline webhook related APIs across services
• I iterated on my hut patch to allow manipulating patchsets from the email Message-ID instead of the patchset ID.

I announced the October release of sr.ht-integration-testing and continued to reduce test flakiness, with a patch to stabilise TestEventsNonBrowsableEntities, and another to avoid running into disk issues.

Finally, I worked a bit on aerc, fixing a latent crash when toggling messages labels, and another that can happen when the IMAP client disconnects in the middle of processing one of its notifications.