Ridiculous pasta stash
Jan. 13th, 2021 07:26 amYesterday I wrote up a doc for S’s draft conversion of the API server from PHP to Python/Flask, summarized a Slack conversation on incremental metadata updates into a github issue, worked with B to merge three outstanding epidata PRs to help Automation drop back below 24 hours worth of work to do each day, and started an R notebook to visualize the actual empirical data. Pretty low key yet productive day.
Dinner, crossword, SG-1, snack, sleep. Dreamt of attempting to cook in an old farmhouse kitchen that had been meticulously organized but had so many cupboards and drawers I struggled to make any headway.
I finished Snuff and started Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen. So far it’s depressingly misogynist, its sense of which events qualify as high stakes is counterintuitive, and the exposition is utterly artless, but the worldbuilding hints at fascinating dynamics to come. I’m going to stick with it for a bit.