Week in Review: Week 3, 2026

published 01/18/26

This was another hard week to be living in Minnesota. Don't listen to what the White House is telling you - this ICE activity has nothing to do with fraud and everything to do with terrorizing a community for political reasons. Hard to stay positive but sometimes channeling my feelings into working on my personal projects provides some relief. I did that a lot this week.

Highlights

worked 40:00, no PTO
published Blog Balm for Pudding Time
published Configure Spec Task Without Verbose Output on here
published Building Analytics Reports in Rails Using Apache Logs on here
created 23 Pull Requests

The biggest thing was landing the work to create an Analytics section on my Rails app for this website. That blog post goes into great detail but I'll just say that it feels really good to have that done and shipped. I did have to fix something today because I wasn't correctly managing the new access log data so I'll see if that fix worked tomorrow.

Pic of the Week

On Friday the Marvel Rivals game started a new season and now you can play as Deadpool. When Jack got home from school he got some time to try him out and he really likes the new character:

Jack jumping — You would think jumping like this would mess him up.

Next Week

Monday is a holiday here in the US - Martin Luther King Jr. Day and so I have that day off work. Jess and Jack have it off school too so we will all be home pondering how this country has fallen so low. There's talk of a protest day on Friday and I'm keeping an eye on that.

In terms of projects - maybe on Monday I'll find some motivation to build something. It might be a good time to upgrade to Ruby 4. I'll also be monitoring my fancy new ETL pipeline to make sure my Analytics section is working correctly.