The biggest event of the past week...

The biggest event of the past week? Ava’s college graduation! Truth be told, she graduated last December, but the ceremony was last weekend and it was a great time. Quite a few family were able to make it to Des Moines to spend a fun weekend celebrating. I got a little sidetracked early this week when I discovered there is an account that is basically using Pika as a nice dashboard for their company blog. They write posts on Pika and their company blog reads the Pika RSS feed to publish the posts on their company site. This isn’t a big deal, but their implementation (that I assume was vibe-coded) was hitting Pika with 100,000-150,000 requests every day. Woof! Our youngest participated in the annual pops concert at her high school. It was a very nice evening with very fun performances across the music department, and a very nice awards ceremony preceding the concert. Particularly touching were the music hall of fame inductees, which were largely a group of people that have done so much…