Week 277: Frosch

A week of D&D planning, learning Rust, escaping AI, a meat and carb diet, dressing as eggs, and lots of inflatable frog adventures.

Posted on 18 February 2026 by Rowan Manning .
Tagged with Holiday, D&D, Food, Social, Health, Rust

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Oops I meant to write this weeknote on Monday but I was too busy doing D&D prep. Then I was supposed to write it earlier this evening but I was too busy learning Rust. Staying busy. It’s just turned Wednesday.
D&D is a nice distraction from everything, a chance to step out of a world of AI hype and just be creative for the fun of it.
Learning Rust is a nice distraction from everything, a chance to step out of a world of AI hype and just write some stuff for the fun of it (have we been here before?).
This week I learned that a 13 year old open source project will be made private so that the project can try and deliver things quicker and better with AI. The future!
So that’s been the first half of this week which I’m not even here to write about. Let’s talk about gut health and Germany.
Eating almost solely meat, potatoes, and bread for a week is not great for you. My normal gut issues reversed during my time in Germany and I craved vegetables. This isn’t me throwing shade at German cuisine but more on my poor planning – I introduced mostly meat and carbs before going there.
It was a fun but tiring week. Carnival in Bonn and Cologne is pretty wild but in a fun happy way rather than the intense way I was expecting. We dressed as Bunte Eier on Thursday. On Saturday, I dressed in an inflatable frog costume, an homage to the Portland Frogs.
The frog was a bit of a nightmare to get around in, it fogged up a lot, but I made a lot of friends (frogs and humans). I made fewer friends by sicking up, which I blame on a slightly-too-enthusiastic reintroduction of alcohol to my body.