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Weeknote 29 2026

Published on: 19/07/2026

Last edited on: 19/07/2026

While researching marimo the python notebook, I came to know about other meaning of this word. Its a japanese algae moss ball and look they are SO CUTE!

a marimo

Work

Monorepo got an escalation after I talked with our Head of Engineering about how I was chasing a moving target of people breaking tests and security issues and me having to fix them in monorepo. Also, there was another ticket on regression runs which was facing issues from platform team. Head of Engineering got everyone in call, gave them sweet little bambu. Now with all their attention on the issue, I had to sit with them late (23:00 PM) in the office twice! Once on Monday and next on Thursday!

Empty office at 23:00

But thankfully I was able to onboard full team on monorepo by Wednesday. And right now I am taking feedback on improving it further. I also got started on my next story of reducing complexity on microservices side and enabling our core database engine to talk to open table formats directly!

With so much happening I ended up going to office every single day 😭. I might have stayed at home on Wednesday but my cook called a rain check and my colleagues invited me to grab lunch with them.

I also am representing my company at The Fifth Elephant conference organized by Hasgeek. I had a trial run of my talk on this Friday and it went okay-ish? I got some awesome feedback to improve my talk! If you going to be around for the conference, do ping me :).

Sports

Swimming

I was able to replicate 25m underwater run twice on Sunday and Friday. This makes me feel confident to try for even longer distances underwater! Getting it twice was good but I also want to get this every single time, I had failed to do it on Wednesday :(. I am not too harsh on myself. I know there are days where it just does not work out 😅.

Another reason for not complaining for Wednesday is I was already feeling super groggy! I went to sleep late last night after coming back home late from climbing and then missing my targeted time to got to sleep by 20 minutes, I got distracted watching Peaky Blinders. Should not watch anything before bed time! Despite feeling groggy, I swam 1km in 35 mins on that day!! I usually average around 700-900 metres depending on the day, but body’s adrenaline shot worked too well I guess!

Climbing

On Sunday, I went to climb with Soham. He hasn’t climbed in a while so mocking him for falling on lower grade routes was fun 😂.

Except that even this week I just climbed overhang wall and spam, with one small change: I am climbing with Ankle Binder on now. As I mentioned in my last week’s note that my ankle has been feeling wobbly and hence I have started using Ankle Binder back again. After a week, my ankle feels okay-ish, at least it does not feel as wobbly anymore. I will be following up every week on how this situation is developing 🙈.

Also Equilibrium staff CAN YOU PLEASE RESET OVERHANG!! It’s been 3 weeks I have been waiting for overhang to get reset. They reset spam wall, then slab walls and this week nothing 😭??? I dont want to risk my ankle by climbing slabs, so overhang is my only option, PLEASE HELP 🙏.

On the spam wall, I did two 6cs named colour TV and howler this week. I only got howler after seeing one of the experience climbers do it for warm up 🫠. Though when I got the beta it actually felt pretty chill, it also taught me how much a small change in holding a hold can make the whole climb feel. No videos of it today unfortunately, maybe next week! I am also projecting another 6c, I got the route in two individual parts, just need to stitch them together and send it.

6c route named colour TV

Food

After climbing with Soham, we went to grab some nice dinner at my tried and tested Chinita. I really like Spinach and Caramalized Onions Burrito Rice Bowl with Diet Coke and Lemon here! Sort of my comfort food at this point.

My cook was off on Wednesday so I tried out two places for breakfast and lunch:

For breakfast, it was BrewMash. I have written about its ehhh Bun Maska few weeks back. But one day while walking back after swimming, I had noticed they sell Poha + Any chai combo for 80 Rs. I had to try it! That mental note came to use on Wednesday, I ordered this combo with Elaichi (Cardamom) Chai. Chai was ehh, but Poha slapped. Quantity was enough, and they had sprinkled masala + onions + actual Rajasthani sev on it. No cheap sev scam happening here! So this might become my go to Poha breakfast place going forward xD.

For lunch, I tried a local tiffin style shop called Sambar Paliye. They boast about their cleanliness, hygiene and use of no palm oil, no reuse of oil, no sugar, etc. I keep having their Shavige Payasam or Sevayam for North Indians. They use jaggery for sweetness and for 70 Rs. you get very good quantity. Its absolute banger of a dessert. So this time I decided to try Methi Roti and Carrot and Beans Palya for lunch. THEY SLAPPED SO HARD. OMG their food is so good, I actually got reminded of my mother’s food. It was clean, non-oily and super tasty.

Methi Roti was so soft, it reminded me of Methi Thepla we cook back in Gujarat. I have decided that this will be my go to place for days when my cook doesn’t show up! I get to support a local business and have amazing healthy food at the same time :).

Lunch from Sambar Paliye

Watch

I am on sixth season of Peaky Blinders. When I completed the fifth season I was so confused what was going on, why did they kill Polly all of a sudden?? And then in the credits section I noticed a message in memory of Helen McCrory. AHH so she actually passed away in real life and show had to whip up something to make up for it! Well, writers did an amazing recovery by making Micheal a villain and using him to hook to the point of American expansion. Well done peeps!

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