Vacation time is reading time.
In order of recommendation,

• All Systems Red - The Murderbot Diaries (introvert AI loves sitcoms, hates social interactions; one can relate)
• Infinite (FTL travel, virtualization and reality trust issues)
• The Three-Body Problem (currently at p. 80, very promising)
• The Delirium Brief (latest in the Laundry Files, slightly dull compared to the rest)

My reading decreased significantly after replacing the old-school Kindle with text-to-speech support with a newer model lacking this. Having vivid stories about rogue AIs and narrated by a highly robotic synthetic voice added a certain edge.

$WORK:
Proposals for an upcoming developer gathering on decoupled architecture and APIs for large-scale content providers, in our case public broadcasting corporations. We’ve successfully implemented headless Drupal and want to explore the option of reversing the decoupling, utilizing external data sources in the Drupal data model and editorial tools.

$FUN:
Optimizing my custom keyboard layout based on Dvorak, Space Cadet keyboard modifiers and overall Vim-friendliness. X11 works (as always), but OS X gets slightly confused when switching between internal and external keyboards, resulting in different characters yielded by the same keystrokes.
Sigh.

$WORK: Switching jobs, handing over projects.
Fun: Prototyping a safe haven for badly structured/maintained public data sources by scraping/cleaning and providing web services instead.

Also, something as unsexy as a RSS cleaner, weeding out semi-duplicated items across a set of RSS feeds from different sources (e.g. news articles from several news agencies regarding the same subject)

Cleaning up seems to be the theme of this week…