When Putin announced a “partial” (right…) mobilization and news of protests in Russia spread, I tried really hard to sympathize with Russian people and not to be cynical.

I’ve been writing a bit of TypeScript lately, and have needed to learn some strategies to test private functions that are not class methods. With class methods it’s straightforward since you can use array access to get to them, but with functions it seemed a bit trickier.

Whenever I post my progress with getting to pain-free squats in the gym again, I get similar questions: “Have you tried this?” “You should do this!” “Check out this person” “What about this?” “How do you feel about lunges?”

COVID necessitated WFH when I was still at EA. EA quickly took measures and closed the office. They issued an allowance for people to buy equipment to work from home. I opted to work from a work-issued laptop and ordered a Varier Variable Balans kneeling chair with my allowance.

The Tor

I was originally intending to grab breakfast before going up to the Tor the morning after my late and rainy arrival in Glastonbury. But when I woke up, the first thing I wanted to do was go say hello to the Tor. It was a really nice, quiet walk. I stayed up on the hill for a couple of hours, eventually doing a bit of writing on my AlphaSmart Neo from the top of the Tor.