Week in Review: Week 8, 2026

published 02/22/26

This was a short week for me with Monday being a holiday. Not much to report other than I did my best swim this week - 850 meters!

Maybe worth mentioning is that I have continued to volunteer to purchase some groceries for families that are too afraid to do it themselves. I get a list and run over to the store to grab what they need. The groceries come home and I get them ready for the next day when I drive them over to the collection point. Then other volunteers deliver them. This is filling my cup and giving me some hope that the world still contains good people.

Highlights

• worked 32:00, 8:00 PTO
• finished Hero of Ages
• created 8 Pull Requests

I continue to work on automating the process of announcing new blog posts on my socials. This week I landed the modeling in order to keep track of blog posts and then updated my Bluesky client gem to support these types of announcements. I learned a bunch about richtext and embeds and how the Bluesky API deals with them. Next up is Mastodon which looks to be a bit more simple.

Some Best Things

I finished the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson which I really liked! It's a fun trilogy that does not take itself too seriously and had enough twists and turns to keep me wanting to know what happens next. The magic system is unlike anything else I've encountered.

The other thing I'll mention here is the Wonder Man show which Jess and I finished. I had been hearing some buzz about it so convinced her to give it a shot. She mostly humored me and didn't even stick it out to the final episode but I thought it was cool. I especially liked the Doorman episode - ding dong!

Next Week

Should be a normal, quiet week. No more volunteering while they assess what the community needs going forward. I did upgrade to Ruby 4 on all my projects so maybe this week I'll do a Rails upgrade that I've been putting off.