Bikes were one thing: this week has mostly been plumbing. Not in a good way! A slow leak at Stevenage and we had to rip out about a square meter of ceiling, about the same of floor tiles and throw away the old sink cabinet. We've simplified the plumbing, which was totally nuts, and replaced seals which had degraded. In some ways, it's like bike maintenance, but wet. We ended up getting a new sink because getting a cabinet compatible with the (perfectly fine) sink was more difficult and expensive. At least we re-used the drain and the faucet tap.
Although it's also been bikes: 4 layers of filler-primer and much sanding and my frame and forks are looking okay. They definitely would not pass for new, but I like it. I'd be tempted to keep the bike "primer grey" but I know it won't take clear-coat well. Excited to do the paint layers and move towards making it rideable again; I have big wide bars to try out and basically all of the parts arrived. Not freed the right-hand pedal from the cranks yet, though.
For computers: I'm building a static HTML view of my music collection with a player. That's already working, but I'd like to use HTMX to give me a player which doesn't stop as I navigate between albums. This is part of my "serverless" fascination -- moving from Navidrome (which is good and all! but overkill) to the smallest thing which would work, and which would not require me to run another full-time service. (I don't mind having something to sync the HTML with the MP3s now and then -- a CI action? or maybe just a cron ...). Ideally this would be a piece of software I can ignore for years and come back to find it working, and not another source of dependency and version update rot.