heat is miserable. if there's one thing I love, it's having a shower immediately after stepping out of the shower! beyond that, things have been going pretty decently.

miscellanea

• found a pretty funny chart on non-monogamy. tag yourself. from this, I stumbled down the mid-2010s web, which is absolutely fascinating and incredibly well-preserved
• Terence sent me a page with a series of posts where House MD episodes are rated for accuracy by a medical doctor. this should come in handy, given I've been obsessively watching it this week
• found a good talk about structuring tests in Python, and spent this week putting a lot of it into practice

musings

• I have no clue what I'm doing with my life, and I don't know how to feel about that
• feel stuck in a bit of a musical rut, so I'm going to actively search for more music
• Python is irritating and its type system is immature. even in 3.12, it still lacks something like TypeScript's Partial to make all entries in a TypedDict optional.

misadventures

• returned to work on Monday, and ran an interview. it didn't go too badly.
• went into the office on Tuesday, had a 1:1 with Josie and then dinner with Duncan in London in the evening. was good catching up
• went to codebar on Wednesday evening, at Eurostar's HQ in King's Cross. coached at the session, and got complimented on my dinosaur shirt a few times, which made me happy. the food was really good, and I took some sausage swirls home with me and had them for breakfast on Thursday morning.
• forked a code coverage generator and added arm64 support for CI pipelines on Friday, surprised it hasn't been done sooner. I need to get it building and working, though. I'll probably get to that on Monday.
• started writing on Sunday. went to a field with a friend and jotted down some thoughts. first draft is almost done, and the polished draft should be done about mid-week next week. I'm excited for this post.
• got asked to do a talk for an CV review and employability skills in tech workshop in August. I'm excited, even though I'm not too sure what I'll talk about.