After maintaining my Now Page for a few weeks, I realized that I’m using it to write weeknotes. But since I kept overwriting the page, things got lost that I’d rather see preserved for autobiographical purposes. That’s why I reduced my .plan, as I’m calling my Now Page, to short lists, and am going back to posting weeknotes again as well.

Trying Zellij

On the tech side, I’ll be trying out Zellij for a while to see if it can replace tmux as my terminal multiplexer. I have the impression that the (Rust, in most cases) developers of these newfangled tools are actually more innovative than the incumbents. Since I can use all the help I can get with making the most of my time, it’s worth doing these little tool experiments.

Learning Go

Keeping the promise I’ve been making for a few years now, I finally started learning Go. Automating a new container-based build process for freistilbox is the ideal use case for getting my feet wet with the first strongly-typed compiler language I’ve been learning in a long while.

Open Source on the Kindle

I’m tearing through books at the moment! I already finished “Red Team Blues” in only a week or so, and I’m looking forward to the next instalments in the Martin Hench series. I bought both of them via Cory Doctorow’s recent Kickstarter. But I like switching authors after each book, so I’m now reading “The Engines of God”.

It’s the first book in a while that I’m reading on my Kindle Oasis instead of the Kobo Libra. That’s because I was able to perform a successful jailbreak on it. When I decided to liberate my ebook collection a few months ago, I got the impression that a jailbreak to install open source software was easier with a Kobo e-reader than with a Kindle. So I got the Kobo Libra. Switching to the Kobo shop for my book purchases proved to be the right move when Amazon removed USB access to the Kindle a while later. But a few days ago, YouTube put a tutorial for the Kindle jailbreak in front of me, and it turned out the process wasn’t half as complicated and brittle as I thought; it’s actually quite straightforward. Now I can use KOReader on my Kindle Oasis, whose hardware buttons I was sorely missing with the Kobo. In fact, I’m running KOReader on all my devices now, from my workstation through my tablets and e-readers down to my Fairphone.

Spiderman, but with moving pictures and panels

After finishing “Star Trek: Prodigy”, my son and I started watching the new Spiderman series. For him, it’s great fun, and for me, it’s also refreshing to see a new take on the comics I read in the 70s and 80s. The way the animators use comic book panels for transitions or to show multiple perspectives at a time is very pleasing.

Just for the kicks

Karate class is still one of the highlights of every week. I’m proud that on Monday, I got to teach the beginners their first kata. Apparently, I have a deep-seated urge to teach, and not only DevOps courses either.

Yesterday, I was finally able to do decent round-house kicks. I feels so good to see my intensive flexibility training paying off. It outweighs the pain in my butt the day after doing dozens of Mawashi Geri.