Week Notes 26#35

• A busy week at work, publishing 10 advisories for Renovate, and working on a number of other bits
  • As GitHub Stacked PRs now support Merge Queues, I've been using them a fair bit this week, mostly simplifying a number of things
    • And it'll be interesting to see how this will help with our next major release
• Also a very rainy week. A particularly big thunderstorm on Monday led to Morph coming upstairs too - he felt a lot safer, which is good, and Cookie was good with him, but he kept also jumping onto bed and meowing loudly in our faces 🫣
• Alexa has been randomly playing music which has been weird - I noticed it a couple of times - one in the evening and one overnight 🤔
• Given Elastic's stock has been doing well (highest for at least a year), I decided to sell the majority of my shares to get some money back, as I'm not certain they'll be getting any higher any time soon
  • It was funny that after each time I sold stock, there was a bit of a dip in the market's view and the share price dropped
  • I do wonder if I have the power to manipulate the markets and want to test it again 😹
• On my website, made a few tweaks to styles, and added a page to list my published advisories
• Had a nice pizza night at Pizza Pilgrims
• Some twats are setting off fireworks right now, even though it's torrential rain right now, and they shouldn't be anyway, given the risk of wildfires
• Wrote about my workflow with tuicr
• Some interesting chatter on the Tech Nottingham Slack this week (quite meta, like, the Tech Nottingham Slack)
• Cookie got her claws trimmed at the vets and was very good about it, and they managed to really get on top of them!
• Spent the weekend doing some sorting out of finances, and getting mostly ready for tax return season
• Cookie enjoyed sleeping very comfortably with her head on a pillow I put down for her 🥰
• Had a nice walk at Blidworth today with Carol and Alan
• Most of the way through finalising my Micropub rewrite 🤞🏼
• The Tyrant event in Kingshot was a bit meh

Reading:

• Leviathan Falls
  • I'm likely going to finish it tonight - it's the last ~30m of the book, and dang it's a good ending

Watched:

• Veep (Season 7)
• Reacher (Season 4)
• Jeeves and Wooster (Series 3)
• Stevie Martin's Ultimate Taskmaster (on YouTube)
• Crime 101 (2026)
• Over My Dead Body (2026)
• Margo's Got Money Troubles (Season 1)
• He's Just Not That into You (2009)