We are officially in H2, gang. I published fewer posts than I had hoped:

Post Date Genre
Black Bag June 18 Thriller
Replacing screenshots and videos with iframes June 22 Engineering
Colocating your pytest fixtures June 26 Engineering
The Thomas Crown Affair June 27 Film
Whisperglass June 30 Business

Summer's here and the ink flows slower than the sweat (we lost A/C for a few days, the misery of which was counterweighed by me correctly diagnosing the problem as a busted capacitor). So much still in the drafts folder: NotePlan, Nixonland, Husbands and Wives, Let Them All Talk, Hex, The Score Takes Care of Itself, The War Room, The Straight Story, Clerks. We'll be travelling (Seattle, then Reno); we'll be keeping busy.

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