Weeknotes: 2025-W27

Published: 7 July, 2025, updated: 7 July, 2025

Summary

The week of Beat Saber. Observed the quarter change by doing my first proper quarter review and came up with tweaked priorities for Q3.

Felt the urge to write up a blog post about my year-long break, and spent a lot of time polishing it.

Mucked around a lot with terminals, tmux, Claude Code, and container use in seeming preparation for more time coding.

(Also got my blog publishing working that I hadn’t noticed had been broken for a while.)

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

Bees never standing still on the English Lavender

Variegated hyndrangea flower heads

The Beat Saber Effect

Enjoying

Reading:
- The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl #6) by Matt Dinniman (★★★★★)
- This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7) by Matt Dinniman
Watching (📺🏃🐌📅🎥📽️🏠🔄🏁):
- 📺📅🏁 Ironheart season 1
- 📺📅 Murderbot season 1
- 📺🐌 The Residence season 1
- 📺🐌 Dark Matter season 1
- 📺🏃🔄 Lost Girl seasons 2 and 3
Playing:
- Beat Saber
- Dungeons of Eternity

Newly discovered

Tmux Popups

I haven’t spent time tuning my workflows much in the past few years, settling for very basic usage of basic tools for a while. But discovering tmux popups seems to have got me interested in that sort of custom tuning again…

Highlights

the value of coding (the mechanical act of it, anyway) has practically gone to zero …
these qualities are now much more valuable:
problem framing, i.e. knowing what to code, asking the right questions, etc.
good judgement, i.e. knowing what “good” looks like
ability to debug & troubleshoot
communication, and importantly, how to influence and bring others on board with your ideas/approach
thinking outside the box (when it makes sense!)

– post by Yan Cui

I supposed it’s not surprising that these are pretty much the exact qualities that were recognized and rewarded in big tech’s career ladders. There were some archetypes that pumped out code, but they also did these things. Some people ended up spending most of their time on these - and these people likely benefit the most from the improvements in AI-assisted development.

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