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Mar 13th

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Another spicy week!

Intermittent incoming Iranian and Hizb’allah missiles notwithstanding, I finally managed to assemble the power supply I’ve mentioned before. You can see it powering an Arduino sub-project (the hopefully upcoming variable voltage supply). The case is a repurposed old UPS case, since I needed a larger case to house the original PC power supply plus extra components. I’ll work on that sub-project next week, perhaps; at present, the supply is useful as-is.

I also made a new release of “8th”; again, despite the various “incoming”. And I did three hours’ work in the garden, replacing a fence. So now my whole body hurts.

Did some fixing of the irrigation. Esther knitted with her friend. Apart from that, we accomplished very little this week.

Various topics of note:

• Preston Stewart’s vids on the war this week: 1, and 2
• Uri’s thoughts on a war in progress and why he trusts news from Israel etc.
• The end of Qatari exceptionalism.
• Tom Nash: Iran already lost, now comes the collapse.
• More Israeli inventiveness: how long have you been in the safe-room/bomb-shelter?
• On the other hand, the “Iron Beam” isn’t ready just yet. As a software developer, I feel this.
• Language nerds: why English spelling actually does make sense.
• History/food nerds: The Poor Man’s drink.

Once again, prudence suggests we stay at or near home this shabbat. The weather will perhaps be rainy, with a chance of falling metal.

This shabbat we’ll try to have uninterrupted meals, consisting of:
homemade ḥalla, pargiot, slow-cooked ribs, rice, homemade ḥummus, various salatim, and chocolate-chip cookies.

Until next time,
shabbat shalom!

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