Hello world!

I completed a walking half-marathon this Sunday. The title of this week’s note is in honor of that effort.

🔖 My Favorite Stuff from the Internet This Week

• Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub – Mitchell Hashimoto
• Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law) on Accurately Quoting Racial Epithets
• jofoerster/habitsync: Self hosted Habit Tracker featuring goals and challenges with friends

• Based on a quick look at the demo, this looks pretty neat.

• When did Marvel stop coloring Black people gray? | The Patron Saint of Superheroes
  • 💡 Interesting!

🌱 Gardening

The temperature has been hovering just above freezing. The hardiest among my sunflowers have survived. The impact has been felt in the germination rate.

🎥 Movies

• Marty Supreme, 2025 (Watched: 2026-04-29)

With the first third of the year complete, I am on track to meet my “26 movies in 2026” goal. I turned Marty Supreme on out of curiosity and respect for some of the other A24 films I’ve seen.

🎵 Music

💿 1001 Albums

• Tuesday: Little Simz - GREY Area
  • Rating: █████
• Wednesday: Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
  • Rating: ███░░
• Thursday: Rufus Wainwright - Want One
  • Rating: ██░░░
• Friday: Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard
  • Rating: Unrated

📊 Stats

I listened to 536 tracks this week.

🦄 Unique tracks: 402 | Unique albums: 176 | Unique artists: 114

Top 5 Genres

1. ✨ Rock (70 plays)
2. 🔌 Electronic (58 plays)
3. 🎤 Hip Hop (51 plays)
4. 🍿 Pop (49 plays)
5. ✨ Kpop (43 plays)

📘 Reading

• Books In Progress:
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Progress: 17% of 1,000+ pages)

Social Reading

🙌 The list at brie.dev/books is up-to-date. I went back and rated every book read in 2026. I’ll continue back-filling ratings. See Hardcover for my ratings.

I keep track of my reading in various places across the Internet. I track every book I read as @bbrie on Hardcover and as brie on Rambling Readers. I also track each IRL Book Club pick.

🕹️ Gaming

🕵️ Ingress

🎮 Steam

🐾 Movement

• Time Split: Foot 78% ████████████████░░░░ Bike 22%

• Distance Split: Foot 55% ███████████░░░░░░░░░ Bike 45%

• Tuesday

  • ☁️ Me, Myself and Montour 🚲

• Sunday

  • ☀️ Walked the Whole Half 🐾

My commitment to biking in cold and rainy weather was rewarded with a very lovely time on Montour. I rode 10 miles Tuesday morning and didn’t see another person.

🎖️ I pushed through some ninth mile cramps to finish the half-marathon at the Pittsburgh Marathon on Sunday. This was my third time participating in this event. I didn’t set any PRs but I had a very wonderful time exploring Pittsburgh. The energy of all the people who come out and cheer is so motivating!

🤭 The on-foot/by-bike percentages favor on-foot activities more than they have since I started tracking.

📯 Social

Most of my social media activity happens on Mastodon.

🐈‍⬛ brie biker-ranza 🚲

I posted on Mastodon this week about my mini backpack and how much I love the collection of pins and patches that I’ve assembled.

Plop

• 😺🪞😺 Plop and his reflection
  • I posted the photo at the top of this blog post with lyrics from Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”.
• 🐍 Don’t click on me
  • I took advantage of the migration to glitch-soc by using Markdown when writing this post for Plop.
• 🤭 I posted a not-great photo of Coraopolis Carl on the porch from Plop’s vantage.

Thanks!

— Brie