• Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel prize for literature and a while back I started Flights but I never finished and now feel like I should try harder.
• I did however read the first two parts of Phillip Pullman’s new Book of Dust trilogy which I thoroughly enjoyed.
• I made my first non-government open source contributions to Deno which was exciting. They were only cop out CSS edits though, need to get brave and write some TypeScript.
• A couple of weeks ago I levelled up my nerd creds and got a myself a very small mechanical keyboard it’s fun, but I am still slow at typing.
• MCD’s newsletter Electric Eel continues to be great. This weeks was particularly interesting which introduced me to Meduza, an English language independent Russian news outlet.
• Really enjoyed this episode of Politics Theory Other about land ownership and the affordable housing shortage
• I had dinner last night at Roti King, a Malaysian restaurant, big queue but it was delicious.