Weeknotes: 2025-W25
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Summary
Had fun returning to writing code on some weeknotes-related automation, and made a solid dent in the weeknotes backlog.
Prepared for 28 Years Later with a rewatch of 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. Finished my Bosch: Legacy run (making 10 seasons of Bosch!), looking forward to Ballard.
Photos
(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)
Enjoying
- Reading:
- The Butcher’s Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5) by Matt Dinniman (★★★★★)
- Watching (📺🏃🐌📅🎥📽️🏠🔄🏁):
- 🎥🏠🔄 28 Days Later (★★★★☆)
- 🎥🏠🔄 28 Weeks Later (★★★☆☆)
- 📺🏃🏁 Bosch: Legacy seasons 1 to 3
- 📺📅 Murderbot season 1
- 📺🐌 This Old House season 45
- 📺🐌 Andor season 2
- 📺🏃🔄 Lost Girl season 1
- Playing:
Newly discovered
What Now? with Trevor Noah
I haven’t been keeping track of what Trevor Noah’s been up to since leaving The Daily Show, but apparently one of the things he’s been up to is creating a podcast (who isn’t?).
I really enjoyed this interview with his Daily Show predecessor Jon Stewart - they both contribute thoughtfully and humorously to the the conversation - even if it steers into some of the topics I try to avoid (politics, divisiveness, and so forth).
Highlights
The unfortunate reality is that the manual often doesn’t exist — or is wrong. In fact, we as engineers are quite willing to subject each others to completely inadequate tooling, bad or missing documentation and ridiculous API footguns all the time. … What agents change about this is, is that I can subject them to something I wouldn’t really want to subject other developers to: measuring. … Using agents we can put some numbers to it in which we cannot do with humans (or in a very slow and expensive way). We can figure out how successful agents are in […] creating [… which is …] a proxy for how humans experience working with the code.
– “We Can Just Measure Things” by Armin Ronacher
It’s intriguing watching work going into code and tool quality (including performance) because of how these affect the speed, capability, and cost of these AI tools to make changes to code, since this has been true for human developers as well without quite so much interest.
Recommended
This New Sudoku Ruleset Is SO Fun!! - Cracking The Cryptic
The new-to-me “Pick-up sticks” ruleset for variant Sudoku is rather fun, and this is a (relatively) short video showing it off well.
OpenAI & Meta Distinguished Engineer (IC9) On … Career Growth | Philip Su - Ryan Peterman
I’ve tried watching this sort of career growth content before, but I’ve always found it too simplified and/or mercenary and/or wrong, but I think Philip’s really thoughtful answers based on extensive experience makes this a good listen.
(Or, you know, I have read a bunch of Philip’s writing in the past on Facebook’s internal groups, so he has more credibility to me?)