Recap of Week 42 (Weeknotes

Here’s what happened during the week of October 14–20, 2024.
In preparation for Halloween, I made some pizza skulls this week. They were nearly burnt on the back and still doughy on the front, as you can see here. So obviously some adjustments are needed.
In preparation for Halloween, I made some pizza skulls this week. They were nearly burnt on the back and still doughy on the front, as you can see here. So obviously some adjustments are needed.

Goings On

🧑‍💻 At the end of week 41, an opportunity presented itself. As they say, “when opportunity knocks, you should answer.” So I applied for a new job within the company where I currently work. As it turns out, I had a first interview on Tuesday and a second on Friday. Fingers crossed!

🔐 I updated my PGP key and Keyoxide proof so it’s got all the new domains I’ve added recently.

📆 Other than that, work’s been keeping me pretty busy by day and not much has been happening in the evening. I discovered that if I mark myself “out of office” I can get a lot of uninterrupted work done. I think I’ll be doing that more often!

🏃‍♂️ I talked a couple of my coworkers into running a 5k at the upcoming AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas in December. They’re both accomplished athletes and I am decidedly not so I started a 5k training program. I doubt I’ll be able to run the whole thing straight through, but I’m hoping at least to get the running intervals longer and the walking intervals shorter.

Reading

📸 “Which Film Simulation Recipes, When? — Part 2: X-Trans IV (2024 Edition)” by Ritchie Roesch (Fuji X Weekly)

🤖 A lot of people panned “AI is the New Plastic” by Linus Lee as being “out of touch,” but it’s actually a pretty good analogy. A lot of people conflate “AI” with generative AI and that’s where we get into trouble. Gen AI is experiencing a massive hype bubble right now, but AI has already transformed industries. More to come.

Watching

🐴 Slow Horses season 4, episodes 4 and 5

🚙 Will & Harper is a nice film that reveals the challenges that trans people are going through every day. I hope it will help change some minds out there.

🐺 Princess Mononoke is an interesting film that I enjoyed much more that Spirited Away, although it’s probably not one I’ll come back to again and again.

Stay weird, friends.