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Week Post #1795

A tuft of grass covered with ice
Some ice in our yard this week -- photo credit to my wife.

This year, as a way to stay motivated with all the various projects I’m working on, I want to be better about reflecting on my weeks. One way to do that while also complying with my goal to write and share more is to publish it in a “week post”. I’m not committing to writing something every week, but I do want an outlet for when I do.

So, I took the numbering idea Robb Knight uses (who I think got from someone else). Basically, instead of worrying about continuously incrementing a weekly note counter, I simply number the post with the week number of my life. I was born on a Friday, so it works out well enough.

To make things easier, I coded a new option in my webcli.clj script to calculate the week number and generate the post file for me:

󱄅  [website] ⚡  scripts/webcli.clj new week

Select a week:
0. Last week: Week #1795 (2026-01-23 to 2026-01-29)
1. This week: Week #1796 (2026-01-30 to 2026-02-05)
2. Next week: Week #1797 (2026-02-06 to 2026-02-12)

Enter Choice (0-2): 0

Generating weekly post for 1795 [2026-01-23 to 2026-01-29]
Created week post: ~/code/ryan.himmelwright.net/src/post/2026/week-post-1795/index.md
You can now edit the content there.

I’m testing it out for the first time with this post.

Projects

I accomplished a good bit of project work, despite the shorter week (an ice storm last weekend kept daycare closed the first few days).

Before that storm, it was my turn to DM the session with my D&D group. I’m glad that 1) we managed to squeeze it in before the storm started, 2) the session went well, and 3) I don’t have to worry about planning it anymore XD.

Next, I wrote and published a short post, along with some other backend work on the website.

Regarding coding, I’ve been working on a list app and spent this week adding archiving functionality and performing some initial performance testing. I also planned out the preliminary design for building a sync server that I’ll start… next week.

Music

I listen to quite a bit of online radio during the day. One of the stations I frequently play, WJRH, is actually the college station for my alma mater, Lafayette College. Over the past few months, they’ve been playing a Joyce Manor single that gets stuck in my head every time I hear it - All my friends are so depressed. This week, the full album (I used to go to this bar by Joyce Manor) was released, so I bought it. Love it.

Also, if you haven’t listened to Streets of Minneapolis by Bruce Springsteen yet, give it a listen.

Links

Lastly, just a few videos/links to share from this week:

Enjoy the rest of the weekend! If it’s snowing again where you live like it is here, stay safe and warm!

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