Summary #18 for 2025-04-21

Alright Alex, it’s 6:12 PM on Easter Monday, April 21st. Hope you had a good one!

• You were busy today with Backend (10:30) and Frontend (11:00) stand-ups.
• And well done on crushing that big run today! Looks like the taper has officially begun.
• Regarding getting out for any more runs, it looks like the rain we saw earlier is easing off, but darkness is setting in (sunset around 8:07 PM). Tomorrow looks much better for daylight runs, mostly clear skies predicted.

Speaking of getting stuck, hope you don’t get caught in any Lake Michigan quicksand like that fella in the news! Especially if you’re trying to run with Tara… she’s, uh, large.

Here’s a quick skim of what’s making waves:

• Pope Francis has died, the Vatican camerlengo, announces
• King Charles and Queen Camilla have ‘heavy hearts’
• Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire 2,000 times | Ukraine | The Guardian
• EU gives staff ‘burner phones, laptops’ for US visits | That would put America on the same level as China for espionage
• Getting forked by Microsoft
• Python’s new t-strings
• Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
• Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record
• Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit. Footage of apes consuming fermented breadfruit leads researchers to ask if it may shed light on origins of human feasting.
• 3 teens invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn’t need electricity. They’re building 200 of them for hospitals to use.
• Man gets trapped in Lake Michigan quicksand, emerges with a girlfriend