The Week in Review – 2026-39

🗺️ The Bikerouter feature announced last week still hasn’t been released: I found a few more annoying bugs that I had to work on.

Otherwise, the feature should now be reasonably polished – at any rate, I spent several hours testing it manually¹.

A release would therefore be possible, but I still want to record a short screencast that explains a few things and link to it in the release notes.

So you’ll have to be patient a little longer.

🌰 It’s autumn, and it’s slowly becoming time to harvest the hazelnuts. We brought the first handful inside yesterday.

The week before last, I needed around 50 grams of hazelnuts for cooking, and the purchased supplies in the kitchen were gone. Fortunately, there were still a few nuts from last year in exactly this bowl². The amount was just enough.

🗄️ On Friday, I received an email from Dropbox announcing updates to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

I had completely forgotten that I still had an account there and deleted it right away.

My use case for Dropbox has disappeared now that I have my Nextcloud instance at Hetzner.

✈️ A while ago, I bought the BeyondATC license and used it from time to time, but much less often than I thought I would. BeyondATC is a program that hooks into Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) and simulates air traffic control/ATC.

Since I fly a lot in X-Plane anyway and, when I fly in MSFS, often fly VFR, there weren’t all that many opportunities to use BeyondATC (especially since MSFS also has a built-in ATC simulation that is often enough for me – after all, I’m only a casual gamer).

Over the weekend, I tried out BeyondATC’s speech recognition and was pleasantly surprised: Instead of sending the messages with a mouse click, you speak the usual ICAO phraseology into your headset and can communicate with the computer ATC from clearance before takeoff through taxi to gate after landing. That’s pretty immersive and takes the whole thing to another level.

Now I’m quite tempted to try something like VATSIM as well – real people sit there, dress up as air traffic controllers and ~~play~~ simulate aviation together with people who move aircraft around in the simulator.

▦ Sudokupad is a web app that allows you to solve all kinds of Sudoku puzzles. I would guess that I work on perhaps only one out of 100 Sudokus in another app.

Sudokupad can fortunately be operated entirely with the keyboard – with one exception: Switching the color palette in coloring mode requires reaching for the mouse or trackpad.

I have now created a userscript that lets me cycle through the three different color palettes using the . key. Much better.

And why would you need so many colors in a Sudoku at all? Well, for example, for this: Colorado 15.

Sudokupad: Cycle Color Palette with Dot Key

📺 Watched over the weekend: Dix pour cent, le film.

Very entertaining, lots of slapstick, and a few familiar faces (George Clooney! Eva Longoria!) – I found a lot to like about the film.

I think the film only really works if you’ve watched the series beforehand. It would surely have received another one and a half or two points in the rating if only people who had watched the series had rated it.

The series is pretty good, too: Dix pour cent.

Watched in French with English subtitles: Everything else is, as so often, unbearable.

Oh, and the film is also the first TV or streaming-service production in which I’ve discovered a genuine gravel bike.

🔊 What I listened to this week:

Of course, there will be countless other problems/inconsistencies, but at least I hope that all blockers have been removed. ↩︎
The bowl is the artifact of a woodturning course that I attended two years ago: Weekly Review 2024-47. ↩︎

Questions or comments?