Summary #2 for 2025-04-21

Good morning Alex! Hope you had a good Easter Sunday. It’s Easter Monday, which means a public holiday for many in the UK today.

Here’s a quick look at what’s bubbling up:

• Exercise time! Looks like you have an MP Run planned today. The forecast shows a good chance of rain with up to 1.2mm expected mainly between 3 PM and 5 PM. Best times to head out for that run look like the morning (low chance of rain) or later in the evening (chance decreases after 7 PM). Get it done!
• Work Stuff: Just a heads-up, your Backend stand-up is on at 10:30, and the [Frontend stand-up](Slack #engineering) scheduled for 11:00 is cancelled. There seems to be another Frontend standup listed for the same time, double-check which one is the go!

Some bits and bobs from the news streams:

• Feeling lucky? Test your historical eye with Which year: guess which year each photo was taken.
• In tech news, Google is talking about Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs, and there’s a dive into Things Zig comptime won’t do.
• On the world stage, EU considers stripping Hungary of voting rights over Ukraine obstruction and the RAF intercepted Russian jets to defend Nato airspace.
• Researchers discovered that a solar panel field the size of 1% of the Sahara is enough to meet global electricity needs.
• Science says healthy soil is the hidden ingredient and suggests people whose neural patterns or “neural traits” looked similar were able to more easily achieve a team flow state together in collaborative video games.
• Good news on the energy front: The UK Is Doubling Down on Wind Energy. Also, a Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mount Everest for a 31st time and break his own record – talk about dedication!

Remember that run! Have a productive Monday!