Peak Dad

Continuing to be a tease, but some exciting (if perhaps a little odd) news this week that I’ll likely be sharing properly in the first week of August. Not exactly all change, but some change.

Other things from the week:

• on recent events: welp

• The happiest baby is apparently a baby with her mouth stuffed full of croissant.

• In my quest to hit Peak Dad, I have ordered a Blackstone Griddle. Maeryn will hopefully learn to love smashburgers.

• Not only am I out of proper brown sauce, I’m almost out of the pretender brown sauce. And I’m down to my last half box of tea! British reserves are low…

• I’m not saying I have a problem, but I actually have a schedule for buying Lego sets for the rest of the year…

• This Frequency’s My Universe is now pretty much done. Two bugs remain, one of which seems to be a limitation of Google’s Cloud Run service and how it maps domain names to Kubernetes pod names (because I remember the cryptic error message from some earlier k8s adventures) — this I can’t fix and so there will be an awkward URL redirect. Things look terrible on mobile right now too, but I think a few CSS directives should fix that. Looking good for August!

• Planning for Thanksgiving has begun! But…this year we’re going to try and scale down our ambitions a little. Check back in a few months to see how that’s worked out. Our record for keeping things contained is…not great.

• It’s 25 years since The Mayfair Set was broadcast. I still want to know if there are more lyrics to the Starship rewrite of We Built This City that was performed for Milken:

We built this city

on high yield bonds