Paul Mucur

In “Sound of Metal”, Riz Ahmed’s character Ruben is tasked with sitting quietly by himself.

I’m currently reclining in a wooden garden chair, its arms silvering—much like its occupant—in a rare bit of Yorkshire sunshine.

Having boarded our flight to Türkiye (estimated flight time of three and a half hours) with a two- and a four-year old, E—— received a text from the airline telling us our flight had been delayed two hours.

Back in February, shortly after booking international flights for the end of July, I went to renew my British passport which was set to expire in May.

I’m taking the day off work to go into the big city and do some restorative record shopping.

Taking four triptans in three weeks has driven me to try some dietary advice for migraine from University Hospitals Sussex.

I am writing these notes between a five year old’s birthday party and a 67 year old’s birthday dinner.

I’m on holiday in the Lake District so you know what that means: writing weeknotes on a phone, of course.

I originally posted these notes on ruby.social.

I’m writing these notes from a train on Platform 6 in Leeds station, the second of four trains that will take me to Brighton for tomorrow’s Brighton Ruby conference.

We’re on holiday again.

We’re in Turkey (or is that Türkiye?)

With the flurry of interest in Mastodon and ActivityPub, I was hoping to run an instance on my own domain.

After resisting the temptation to indulge in an exotic keyboard for my entire programming career, I switched to a Kinesis Advantage360 this week.

With last week’s release of my gem, re2, I had to update its documentation.

After learning about the existence of the Sonos Port from an episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast, I decided to give balenaSound a go on my Raspberry Pi 4.

I stopped taking Amitriptyline after a run of headaches and migraines and have instead decided to try two things: Going for a lunchtime run around the local tarn twice a week, greeting the ducks as I complete two laps.

Armed with a wire brush on a broom handle and “OK Computer”, I attempted to weed our driveway using good, old-fashioned elbow grease but soon resorted to spraying it indiscriminately with pelargonic acid weed killer.

I am now a father of two.

My sister bought C a surprisingly fast remote control car for Christmas which stopped working.

One week after testing positive for COVID-19, C and I have now tested negative for at least two days.

C and I tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.

I’ve been working on an API written using Ruby on Rails and was attempting to understand how Rails handles content types when sending the HTTP Accept header.

In an effort to improve my lighting on video calls, I bought an Elgato Key Light Air and positioned it behind my monitor.

Over Christmas, my father-in-law received a wooden puzzle we all failed to solve.

C’s love of vehicles is now focussed on a series of videos with 8-bit graphics, a chiptune soundtrack and vehicles such as Type II Ambulance, Type III Ambulance and Bloodmobile.

After it was recommended on several podcasts, I downloaded Mela so I could save all of Felicity Cloake’s “How to cook the perfect…” recipes.

I currently have a stack of unfinished science fiction novels: Arthur C.

It is a new year and it is time to correct past mistakes.

As Maciej put it: I feel that if I start explaining why I have not written sooner, I’ll end up not finishing this post at all, so instead let me just skip that part altogether.

I’ve switched to my new laptop.

After writing about white noise apps last week, Scott pointed out iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 have ambient noises built-in.

C often asks me “where are you [meaning “am I”] going today?”

It was a mistake to number my weeknotes by weeks rather than by notes.

We moved house.

We exchanged contracts on both the sale of our flat and the purchase of a house in Ilkley.

With no more “Worship the Sun” to play, I bought “Ori and the Blind Forest” for the Nintendo Switch to meet my need for platforming games that border on the cruel.

Belated notes this week.

Every evening there is a moment when the daylight has waned just enough to trigger the light sensor in C’s “Hey Duggee” wooden puzzle.

I am rushing these notes before C wakes from his afternoon nap and we go to visit E’s sister for her birthday.

Last year, my dad found a large wasps’ nest in the attic.

After drying in the sun, the AirPod that went through the washing machine is working fine.

For the past few weeks, we have woken to see rabbits in the garden.

Happy Mother’s Day!

My Joy-Con diagnosis came back from Nintendo: “liquid damage main board”.

After having a drifting left Joy-Con for over a year, I finally sent it to Nintendo for repair.

I spent a long time rewriting re2’s CI configuration to test against Ruby versions 1.8 through to 3.0 and all six ABI versions of the underlying Google re2 library using GitHub Actions.

The kitchen tap has been dripping for a week.

Following our decision, E and I signed terms with an estate agent, booked in a photographer and opened a file with a conveyancer.

My sister and I baked Liam Charles’ “Mega-Choccy Stack” from the latest series of Junior Bake Off.