The Olympic Games are happening in Paris. I’m sort of vaguely interested, but not enough to pay for access, so I’m not watching any of it, apart from short clips of highlights.

Except today! We had an Olympic day at the office, since it was just the four of us on the third floor, and nobody could complain. A teammate who is more into sports has a paid Eurosport account, and we have a big screen on the wall that normally shows graphs and statistics about new customer signups and take-up of the new customer portal and other such inspiring things, that he could Chromecast the stream to.

We saw various branches of gymnastics (always super impressive), table tennis doubles (all Asian teams at the top), swimming, men’s volleyball, and probably more. Not continuously, but whenever I was waiting for a build to complete, or was switching tasks, etc.

The technical setup itself was interesting enough. 360 degree cameras around the table tennis setup, so they could freeze the scene and pan around, Matrix-style. Visualizations of all the spots where ball had hit the table during the game. Miles beyond the blurry slow-motion cameras of yesteryear.