Weeknotes: Week #10 (2026)
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Published: March 8, 2026

Barely anything of note happened this week as practically my whole team was out-of-office so I was both working and living alone which made for an incredibly boring time.

My phone woes continued into this week, with the Pixel 8 seemingly forgetting my home Wi-Fi network entirely and refusing to connect to it. For two days I had it connect to my spare phone’s hotspot for Wi-Fi. Just like last week, this problem also magically resolved itself in two days and things went back to normal. I hate software even more.

I finally had to go bug my landlord to get some maintenance work done in the flat when my ceiling fan broke down, not a fun time in 32 degree Celsius weather. That took entirely too many phone calls than one would expect, but I managed to take the opportunity and get other stuff fixed around the apartment as well. Hopefully that’ll be the end of this.

At work I kept fighting with CI related things, which were made slower by the fact that I had to reach out to a different team to help with reviews since nobody in mine was working. Eventually I think I’ve got it all working but what a colossal waste of time it has been throughout this week. We had a minor scare with the Android SDK from a user report about crashes when attempting to join a meeting but thankfully we were able to debug it and identify that the problem wasn’t as widespread as we initially suspected and required a very specific setup to trigger. I fixed the root cause and cut a release, I’ll probably write a blog post about it once I’ve completed the internal incident report.

I had to fly back home via an early flight on the 8th and hadn’t packed for it yet so I was debating if I should go to IndieWebClub but thankfully I did end up going, the topics on the agenda were great and a lot of thoughtful discussion happened that I enjoyed participating in.

I packed for the trip at a definitely-not-too-late 8 PM, stayed up till 2 AM playing games with friends while waiting for my taxi and managed to reach the airport in an astonishing 45 minutes. All the airport staff was still there but the foot traffic was maybe a fifth of what I usually see in Kempegowda airport, so I basically speedran through check-in and security. Time from taxi to departure gate, maybe 30 minutes.

And that was kind of it! I’m back home in Ghaziabad for a week to attend a friend’s wedding and will be back in Bengaluru next weekend.