Weeknotes: 2025-W34

Published: 25 August, 2025, updated: 25 August, 2025

Summary

Spent more time banging my head against ComfyUI trying to put together existing nodes to convert my tangled workflow into something automated, and eventually swapped over to looking at making my own nodes. Definitely tiring of this part of the project, but pushing through with some productivity drop-off.

Did some more looking at what data I can pull out of Home Assistant, played around with n8n and Ollama a bit, but wasn’t particularly inspired.

Photos

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

Enjoying

• Reading:
  • The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman (★★★★☆)
    • I think a step up from the previous book.
  • A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
• Watching (📺🏃🐌📅🎥📽️🏠🔄🏁💑👥★☆):
  • 🎥🏠💑 Superman (★★★☆☆)
    • Good in each area, but not particularly cohesive. Overall tone is a bit too slapstick or absurd - could do with turning down by 20%.
  • 📺🏃 The West Wing seasons 4 and 5
  • 📺🐌💑 Eyes of Wakanda season 1
• Playing:
  • Beat Saber
  • 10000000

Newly discovered

• Shader Academy has 100+ challenges from introductory to advanced on various aspects of rendering and compute using shaders. I’m taking a note to walk through these…

Recommended

How to draw a Space Invader - Stanko Tadić

The Miracle Sudoku Of Eleven - Cracking The Cryptic

Very short (for a Cracking the Cryptic video, at least) and enjoyable.

What if you had a mole of moles? - xkcd’s What If?