Notes on Week 14 of 2026

I was on my own this week. Tess was in Geneva, and EJ was on spring break.

I made quesadillas and chana masala for myself.
I started a new sourdough starter.
I planted some plants in our backyard garden.
I watched Kagemusha and Apollo 13.
And I finished Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki.

Apple celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 1. We had an event at Apple Park where Sir Paul McCartney played!

Apple's rainbow stage decked out for the 50th
Apple’s rainbow stage decked out for the 50th

A few people wrote things about Apple turning 50:

Apple discontinued the Mac Pro. End of an era.

I wrote up some interesting things I learned about JavaScript event listeners and functions.

On the “things that are occupying too much of my brain; oh my god I have so many other things I should be doing instead” front, I’ve been thinking a lot about webmentions and how to integrate them into this website.

I also wrote about Artemis II and the Oberlin Luddites.

It was TDOV on Tuesday this week.

In an act of cruel timing, on the same day, the US Supreme Court released an opinion striking down state bans on conversion therapy of minors. The ruling was 8-1, with Justice Jackson being the lone dissenter. Appalling.

Anthropic issued C&D’s to remove more than 8,000 copies of Claude Code’s source code from the Internet. Gosh, it must be terrible to have all of your work slurped up and spit back online with no regard to how it might affect your existence and livelihood.

Lol.

Some things from Tess: