Weeknotes 210
6th July, 2025
“Sorry I'm sweaty, it's genetic!”
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Three more meetings with builders this week…it’s a surprising amount of work meeting with builders and discussing extensions you can’t really afford.
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Started off the week with yet another escape into the cinema, this time The Ballad of Wallis Island. I cannot say enough good things about this film. It simply doesn’t put a foot wrong. I’ve been a fan of Tim Key for quite a while but Tom Basden was fairly unknown to me – what a talented pair they are. Tom Basden wrote a whole album of songs for the film as well as co-writing and starring. Sian Clifford delivers as she usually does too. Loved it.
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On Thursday we both went to see Jurassic Park Rebirth. You know what it is, but at least it doesn’t have Chris Pratt in it. Fairly enjoyable nonsense.
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Four films in two weeks – procrastination mode enabled ✅
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Whilst in Brighton I discovered Dalston’s Soda – they’re fantastic so I bought a mixed box to try. Impressively low calorie too.
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Registers Explained - Vim Tips & Tricks - Stop Losing Text in Vim
I’ve never understood/never taken the time to understand Vim registers. Now I have. As you’d expect they’re extremely full featured and overwhelming, but at their core fairly easy to grok.
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Speaking of which, I found out that if you paste using
P
instead ofp
the default register doesn’t get overwritten by the text onto which you’re pasting. I’ve had this problem for years and I’ve just lived with.This is what makes Reddit hard to give up; it is actually useful occasionally.
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kelvinauta/remove_comments.lua
This function removes all comments from your code using treesitter in nvim.
Nice example of Neovim Lua APIs.
(It actually doesn’t work as I would expect, leaving behind whitespace etc, but it’s I still think it a valuable demonstration.)
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I caught up with some of the Glastonbury coverage over last week. I found most of it a bit lack lustre to be honest.
However, Dog Dribble by Getdown Services is brilliant. I’m obsessed.
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I re-potted a load of my indoor plants this week. I have attempted to split up my Monstera into several plants (thanks YouTube!). One of the cuttings has already started sprouting roots so it’s looking good so far. It will take a while to see what else has survived and what I’ve killed off.
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Burn It With Fire: How to Eliminate an Industry-Wide Supply Chain Vulnerability – this sounds like a lot of work, respect.
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In an attempt to take my exercise regime more seriously I decided that I need to work on being able to get into a full squat unaided and without weight. This is often referred to as the resting squat.
Long story short I started some stretches and now have strained muscles in my feet. The lesson is never try.
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You should delete tests – I could not agree more. Good luck convincing your colleagues though!
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We drove down to Somerset on Sunday for a visit to the old country. I spent most of the week feeling a low-level anxiety as a result. Not sure why. I was dreading the drive but that turned out to be easy enough. I’ve got a few appointments to deal with whilst I’m here, which I am also not looking forward to, and I don’t know what will come of those. It should at the very least provide an opportunity to catch-up with a few people.
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I want to leave tech: what do I do?
Imagination alone is never sufficient to create change, but it’s always necessary. Ultimately though, finding your space of agency is your own responsibility: nobody can do it for you.
Shame.