Week Notes 26#22

• A nice relaxed Bank Holiday Monday
  • We spent the day mostly trying to hide from the heat - highs of ~32 made it rather toasty
  • Glad I did the decking on Saturday/Sunday, as it was so toasty
  • And playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 almost all the day - continuously until the game crashed in the evening 🫣
• A pretty busy work week
  • One very good thing is that we're back to being able to publish npm packages 🚀
  • Had a good chat with Brian about our integrations with Maven Central
  • Enjoyed doing my first webinar at work
• Had some good AI-y discussions with Alan this week
• Cookie wasn't super happy in the heat and did a few grumbly barks at one point because she wasn't happy
• But it also wasn't super cute when she kept us up for most of Monday night - I ended up being awake 0400-0600 and when I couldn't get back to sleep, decided to get up and play some Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 before work
• Finding it surprisingly weird to stand while playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (as it's with a controller)
• Joined the CHAOSS Package Management gang on Wednesday while walking Cookie which was nice, and got some good food for thought
• A nice pizza night and catch up with folks
• Cookie and Morph have been having a lot of fun this week watching out for the mice living in the wall in the garden, and one day Cookie missed it racing out of the bushes in the flower bed into a crack in the wall
• Had a nice breakfast at OK Diner with Carol and Alan
• A nice walk around Gravelly Hollow this morning, getting to the end just before the rain started (despite being told "there won't be any rain today" by the clever home assistants)
• While eating lunch today, Cookie was peeking through the bushes and watching us - I wish I could've got a photo quickly enough, but the memory will have to be enogh!
• Had a good day going through the various holiday booking bits 👀 Very exciting!
• Having a look at what it'd take to support standard.site on my blog

Playing:

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • So very good - really enjoying the story, the turn-based combat, and it's a challenge but a welcome one
  • I think I'll probably do a review of this, maybe closer to the end
  • I didn't realise until early Act 2 how the passives worked, and realised I'd been massively underpowering my party 🫣
• (as usual) Kingshot
• (No Apex Legends)

Reading:

• Persepolis Rising
• Auberon

Watched:

• (No The Expanse (Season 4))
• Succession (Season 3)
• Succession (Season 3)
• (no Star Trek: Beyond (2016))
• Taskmaster (Series 21)