I can’t believe I’m relishing the weather today when it’s just above 40 degrees. But that’s how it goes deep in the heart of winter in New York. Weeks like these make me think of this xkcd and how the weather extremes here in the summer and winter are pretty close to the worst of both worlds. Oh, well! The buildings look pretty at night at least.
This is a short Weekly this week. Let’s get on to it!
Hello again! I realized I messed up my automated email schedule up a bit and last week’s newsletter was sent out this evening, a full week late. Sorry for that! As an apology to my O(10) newsletter subscribers, you’ll see two posts in 24 hours — going forward the newsletter will get sent out Monday mornings rather than Sunday evenings to account for any late editions.
It’s an edition coming in right at the buzzer this week! I had a really fulfilling day today — went to the first session for a new book club this morning and hosted friendly low buy-in poker with some friends in the afternoon. I’m feeling good about the time I’m spending with people I care about so far in 2025; I hope to continue it through the rest of the month!
Happy new year! I just posted my 2024 year-in-review post over on the other part of this site. It was fun to sum up the year, and I’m excited to see where 2025 takes me! On to the links:
Is it even worth talking about what weather is and isn’t “unseasonable” anymore?
It was the first snow of the season in New York City last night! Today the sun is shining, so we’ll see how long it actually sticks around for.
I’ve got fewer articles than normal this week in the newsletter — I spent more time than normal reading actual, gosh-darned novels! Taking even more inspriation from Arne Bahlo I might start writing up longer reviews of books I read.
I took a vacation this week, so I’m writing this weekly with more of a laid-back attitude.
Happy Saturday! After sending off last week’s installment I finally finished up and published part 3 of my Nix-on-macOS series. This was sitting in my drafts folder for a long while and I’m happy to have gotten it out there. I have some more ideas for posts in the series to write, but I also want to start thinking about other series and topics I can explore.