Weeknote 10 - 2026-09-25

I’ve missed a few weeknotes.

I’ve been feeling pretty tired recently, this week especially.

I was on-call for most of last week, which I find draining.

I’ve upgraded to a Herman Miller Aeron chair (size B). It’s so much more comfortable for work than my gaming-style, faux-leather chair – especially during warm weather!

I completed reading ‘A Tour of C++’. I decided not to write code as I read it, as I felt I wouldn’t get a good sense of when to actually use certain features.

I’ve started implementing the code in ‘Building Low Latency Applications in C++’.

The problem with low-latency is that it often avoids using some of the modern features in later versions of C++ to avoid extra run-time safety checks (e.g. preferring a tagged union type rather than the modern std::variant, and nullptr over std::optional).

I was asked to give a reference for someone I last worked with over two years.

Having to give examples of behaviour from over two years ago is hard enough when you’re being interviewed about yourself and you’ve prepared.

I have the London Vitality 10,000 this weekend. I haven’t been running much the last couple of weeks; I managed a single 5k each week. I guess that’s okay, though. My limbs should still be able to move, and I would have been reducing my load anyway.

📖 Currently Reading

The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (affiliate link)