As I work more with rookery, I am realising that the way of thinking it allows will be perhaps even more integral in my research going forward than I suspected while building it. As a result, I spent most of my cycles this week tuning it. I also switched to niri on both my laptop and desktop as a window manager, and we had a couple of (non-academic) visitors at home in Turin to usher in the cooler weather. This is one of the last weeks of real hacking, as we move more into regular programming in step with the Fall semester now that September is on the horizon.