Weeknotes 169

Dismal weather (therefore wet bike rides) all week, but today it’s sunny! In London! ☀️

Okay, it was overcast earlier when I went out for mysteriously vegan “chick’n & waffles” at Club Mexicana and I got cold on the walk home, but that was just bad timing.

The food was extremely delicious.

Yesterday I rented a van and helped Aleks move house. The moving part was fun but the solo drive back across town to return the van on time was the most stressed I’ve been for a while. Sweating in the stationary queue to the Rotherhithe Tunnel, helplessly watching the minutes tick down, is not an experience I’d like to repeat. Just use Tower Bridge is my advice to me and Google Maps.

I got the van back, like, five minutes late. The person who was waiting to use it next was clearly annoyed but didn’t take it out on me, even after I definitely tested their patience by going back and asking them to unlock it because I had, in my haste, left half my stuff behind.

A day later the stress has subsided and been replaced by the creeping dread that I’m going to get a massive fine for driving a van through the Rotherhithe Tunnel.

It’s not entirely clear to me why I ever do anything.

I’ve given up again on Outer Wilds. I now feel confident I’ve made a decent effort and can safely leave this game to those cleverer and more patient than me.

HARDWARE × SOFTWARE: it’s understandable that the Ember mug charging coaster can become unreliable over time, and it separately makes sense that the charging indicator is a slowly pulsing red light, but the combination is deadly when you’re trying to jiggle the thing around on its charger to make a good connection and can’t get any feedback without waiting several seconds to see if a light gradually fades in from black.

Ian Ember, if you’re reading this, which I’m sure you are, if you can’t make the coaster reliable then please make the charging animation start from full brightness.

I saw Infinity Pool which, like Possessor, was compelling and visually interesting and difficult to watch at times. Mia Goth was again great in it, making her reliable enough that I’ll probably start watching films just because she’s in them.

I didn’t have time to make progress on my WebAssembly project. I’ve got next week off for Easter so, in an ideal world, I’ll do something about it soon.