December 27, 2025: Weekly Notes 2025/28

This will be the last weekly notes this year. I started writing them this year about 29 weeks ago.
I’ve been living by “If I am not doing it the rest of my life, I am doing it a few times” (professionally). Let’s see how it stands up to the midlife crisis I am supposed to get in a few years.
I had to drive to Hyderabad and back to Bangalore this week because of a semi medical emergency. Kaalu The Fifth did well in the car. My No access also did very well. It gave me ~19 km/l mileage on highway. Driving experience was much better this time. This time I drove 90-100 km/hr speed during night without any issue. Though I prefer day-time driving, but two-wheeler and auto-drivers make life miserable on the highway since they can come from any-side anytime.
I missed three days of running because of driving, but I’ll manage to finish 1000km in a couple of days .
Three months ago, I won a 1 gram gold coin from Spinny when I bought a car from them. But it’s not enough motivation to drive to Tanishque store. I won’t be surprised if I won’t collect it in time. Why can’t these people just transfer the money! Who has time to run around for gold?
I used to complain to my co-founder about something similar a lot, who’d have preferred to hire someone “senior” who doesn’t use their hands on the code-base. It’s really sad how many “senior” folks you meet during interviews who really don’t really “work on” the project they “manage” or “lead”.

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