Weeknote 28 2026

Windows in interesting places: Work This week hasn't brought me relief from monorepo hell, instead now there's now extra work thrown on top of it. Now I am also responsible for migrating regression of our rust engine to platform team's 2.0 APIs. I do not understand how SREs/devops peeps keep writing actions, terraform and keep doing this work everyday! Huge respect for them. I would be happy to stay away from human invented mess, I am happy fighting mostly laws of physics when doing performance work on database internals. Sports Swimming My friction blister settled down by Monday evening, so I started swimming back again the very next day. Overall it was just three sessions missed, so not bad. I am back to enjoying my time swimming and relaxing. Also, something unexpected happened this Saturday, I completed swimming 25m underwater! I have been trying to do this for a while at the end of every session. It helps that my swimming pool is an olympic size one. So I do laps most of the…