2025/w20
Oh look, I’m back. Back in London. London, England. England, United Kingdom. United Kingdom, Earth. Earth, in The Moon System. The Moon System in Engine Alcheme. Stay tuned for more, after these messages from our sponsors.
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On Monday I met this bird:
On Tuesday we (Zaina + me, not me + the seagull) flew to Amsterdam, we walked along the canals and we ate spaghetti. And on Wednesday we met another Little Bird. What a wonderful time meeting my oldest friend in person for the first time, and we all took a ride along in a boat and learned about all the top ten grachts in amsterdam and the perils of building everything out of wood (catch fire).
If you owned a bowling alley under a bridge on a canal what would you call it?
And then we (me + Zaina) flew back to Málaga on Wednesday Evening. Zaina didn’t have to show passport to anyone the whole time we were in Amsterdam, noch in het hotel 🏩, noch op de luchthaven ✈️.
The European Dream, living ones Schengeniest life.
On Thursday I attended the conference. Met up with pvh and talked a little Automerge, Malleable Software and whatnot. Orion did a great talk about “adversarial malleability”.
That night Zaina and I attended an impressive flamenco performance, the performers had the duende. Olé!
On Friday another conference day, though I spent the first half walking on the beach. pvh’s talk was very good. Funny and inspiring. Afterwards Zaina and I walked for a couple of hours to a pizza festival, got blisters on our feet, ate a good slice (hers had an egg) and went home.
The next day we got up early to watch the sunrise. We checked out, ate breakfast, lay on the beach. Zaina swam while I burned a bit.
Checking through security there was the angriest man. If you bring to mind the image of Peter Capaldi if he’d been a spanish football referee (who wishes he was a player) you are in the right ballpark. He kept shouting “Lady!” at Zaina and telling her to remove the keyboard from her bag (she had no keyboard). He was being such an asshole. He told me I had things I didn’t have too. He made some mistakes, and held up the line, and then got angry at us for his own mistakes. We gave him our grathias aluegos and went to the gates area where Zaina broke up with me.
I got home about 4am and ate a pizza.
Now I’m reörganizing the monorepo for one of my silly personal project apps. I’ve just noticed with my tongue that part of one of my teeth is missing. This time next week I’ll be in Berlin. The week after that I’ll no longer be an employee for the company I’ve been at for 7.5 years. The day after that I’ll start my new job.