Weeknotes 206

We met the first of our short-listed builders this week, and also visited our neighbours up the road who have had similar work done by the same company, and graciously let us have a look around. Now we nervously wait to see what the quote looks like.

More meetings planned for next week.

Elixir Outreach stipend for speakers and trainers – great idea!

Our diet has been fairly boring for a while, necessarily so in some ways, but I decided to cook something new this week – Baked Butter Paneer (from Meera Sodha’s Dinner). I’m still not enamoured with Paneer (it’s absolutely fine), but overall the dish came out well and I will likely make it again, maybe with some variation.

Markdown support in Apple Notes?!

Apple Notes Expected to Gain Support for Exporting in Markdown in iOS 26

Such excitement, much wow.

“What features would you like to see in Ruby that aren’t there currently?”

A complete revamp of pattern matching. More Scala-like. The syntax we have now is godawful. So bad that people just don’t use it and brush pattern matching off as useless when it’s actually quite awesome.

Some interesting answers to this question on /r/ruby. This one stood out to me as it mirrors my experience. I love pattern matching in Elixir, but never use it in Ruby. I think a lot of that is the awful syntax. Ironic from Ruby, a language admired (and admonished) for it’s beauty.

F2 looks very powerful

F2 is a cross-platform tool for bulk renaming files and directories on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It simplifies the renaming process by offering powerful workflows while prioritizing safety to prevent data loss (such as overwriting files by accident).

It also looks fairly overwhelming. Noted for posterity.

I decided to order a Smarty SIM card to evaluate. I’m not sure EE is worth it now I’ve moved. And I do kinda miss free roaming abroad even though the sums don’t add up.

Still “working” on a side project.