April 2026 Month-and-a-half Notes
Whenever I think of something worthy of a boring tweet I just write it in my Notes file, and then you get to read them after a month and half. Welcome to the Month Notes.
(old man yelling at cloud energy) They don’t put model names on the back of cars anymore. I’ll look at a cool car and it just says “Cupra” with no model name. They’re too cool to write it down. Also some makes have the embossed text, in black, on a black car, so it has zero contrast. It’s like skeumorphism is taking over the real world! Where’s my WCAG contrast guideline?!
Well, we bought a very uncool car. I’m a minivan person now. I have a minivan. (slaps roof) this baby can fit so many babies
For you see, in the summer there will be another Griff Baby. So we’ve had a massive chuck-out at home and replaced my wardrobe with some drawers for baby. Did you know Ikea are discontinuing the MALM? Where do the years go??
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It was my birthday recently. The kids and I ripped down one of our small wood sheds and built a makeshift asado in its place, and I’m really happy with it. We got some sausages from the grumpy butcher and cooked them over real wood charcoal, and they were delicious.
Also for my birthday I got Mike’n’Ikes. I love these for the massive flavour hit, but I always have to brush my teeth straight afterwards bc you can feel the instant plaque growth unlike that from any other sweet. Maybe it’s all the corn.
I asked for and got a new USB charge bank (so exciting) but in my rush to optimise for capacity and price I accidentally got one that is 3x heavier than what I’m used to. I have this beautiful, dinky little “POWERGEN” charge brick from about 2010 that’s 8000mAh and only 150g, whereas my new 20000mAh one is 450g :(
I am doing “agentic development” at work, and, as Seuss said: “Don’t ask me what ‘Voom’ is, I never will know, but boy let me tell you, it does clean up snow.”
There is too much to learn and write on the topic to ever begin. And most of it is wrong (or will be next week) and no-one is an expert, but some people have learned a bit more about it without frying their brains - listen to such people.
When Geordi or B’Elanna are using the Voice UI of the ship’s computer (that’s right, we’re having a conversation slightly Star Trek here) they’re still engineering. They prompt like “Computer, what if we moved the plasma confabulator to outside of the nacell conduit – would that reduce the phase variance?” and the computer basically does the dragging-and-dropping for them, and re-runs a simulation, and reports the result. They’re still the one driving/thinking/engineering. Makes you think.
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So, the Hantavirus, huh? We happen to be related to two frontline clinical staff who handled the 2019 Epuyén outbreak of Hantavirus that killed 11. When Covid came along, they said “thank goodness it’s not more Hantavirus”. But I get the impression that while Hanta is deadlier, it doesn’t propogate so easily as Covid.
Every time I publish life notes, I worry, “what about opsec?!” like am I publishing too much identifying detail? And then I decide to relax. I don’t post exact dates, names, or anything on here.
So that’s all. Maybe a technical post will land before next month, maybe not. Next month hopefully I can reveal more interesting life changes.
Until then… annyeonghi gaseyoooo 👋🚞