What are you doing this weekend?

could you share the demo you saw?

taxes

Tell me about it. PFIC elections are absolutely dreadful and mean I have to file for an extension, because necessary documents won’t even exist for another few months.

Good luck with Factor!

I highly suggest next year, write a tax system in your favorite programming language.

You’ll thank me. I did this last year and taxes were ultra simple. Forth.

This weekend marks the start of a two-month break from work. I have been working remotely by myself on backend development for over two years now. There has been no other developer reviewing my work, or whom I can learn from. I started to feel stagnant and burned out.

So, I planned this break to give me time to do something different and collaborate with others. I have my eye on a few open-source projects that I might want to contribute to, but if anyone here could use a seasoned Go developer in their project (or even a junior Rust developer just starting), please let me know. I’m all ears!

Playing with Gleam, apparently. Hopefully it continues to be as good as it has mostly been so far. It has some strong opinions and I disagree with half of them, maybe it can change my mind.

Visiting my partner who’s currently living on the far side of Jutland to me due to work (writing this from the train right now). Hoping for a nice relaxing weekend, followed by a chance to spend some time cooking some more time-intensive dishes on Monday/Tuesday, as I’m working from her place on those days

Tech-wise, I’ve thrown together a static site generator with pandoc, shell, builds.sr.ht and pages.sr.ht. I want to try build up a backlog of 5-6 articles before I start publishing regularly, and I have a couple of drafts in progress already.

Taking a cross country train Saturday to participate in Norwegian national air pistol championship Sunday.

Maybe boiling more maple sap to get syrup. This year’s yield is starting to look like around 6L of syrup so far. I could probably make a bunch more, weather permitting. I might also be doing a bit of blacksmithing. Probably a bit of spring cleaning on the yard.

Washing the car, first and foremost. Writing a blogpost for the game is getting a bit overdue - I think I want to write a deep dive into how an idle, GUI-heavy game like this is made. I’ll see if I can share it on Lobsters, but it might not be that relevant. Besides that, resting and enjoying some quality time with my partner!

Putting new but old furniture in my aparment. Working on bytecode compliation of pattern matching, figuring out how to do const folding and other optimisations so i can make a really fast interpreter

Ovethinking the setup of my dedicated server

Styling a dl/dt/dd list.

Still working on a product solo (codeinput.com). This weekend I’ll be mostly spending time untangling the insanity that is Github API. Building the back-end in Rust made me appreciate how well made lots of Rust crates and libraries are. The Github API makes absolutely no sense and is just a spaghetti of let’s add another endpoint here. I even found a data/email leak 4 days ago (reported it on hackerone) and still yet to hear from them. There are bugs in the API that are sitting there for months/years.

Otherwise, I’m looking for free-credits to bootstrapping startup (preferably before the incorporation stage). I got $300 from AWS and some free tokens from openAI but looking for more. Would appreciate referrals, credits, or programs that could help with that.

I had to take 1.5 days off before the end of quarter, so I took yesterday, today, and Monday’s afternoons off.

So I’ve been able to handle Dependabot and the like already before lunch, so my TODO list is fairly cleared up.

The biggest candidate is I’m working on a small websockets/MQTT thing that unfortunately I cannot discuss because it’s related to some closed source software. But my ultimate plan is to use an USB foot pedal to add a very handy control to my work computer.

Otherwise, I could polish my recipe to turn an RPI0 into a virtual USB flash drive, maybe play with my experiments for a streaming service planner, continue with my plans to create a tech community in Spain… or maybe some curious life stuff. Like for instance, apparently utility bills in Spain have a QR code that link to a gov’t-run price comparison tool, so I would try to optimize a bit utility costs.

Trying to bring up a new architecture in Rust. I finally got some compiled code to run on the target yesterday so now I can start testing and adding target-specific features. I haven’t done much compiler work before and was worried about being totally out of my depth, but so far it’s been really fun. It was a great feeling just to see an LED blinking yesterday :)

Attempting to fix one of the two cars currently unable to be used on the road (they’ve failed their MOT - annual check for roadworthiness here in the UK). This one failed on the emissions being too high for certain elements (CO I think). Mechanic and I think it’s a faulty O2 sensor downstream of the Catalytic Converter, and I’ve got my old sensor from last year when the Cat was swapped, so I’m going to swap it in and see if that makes a difference. If not the solution likely gets expensive—rats.

Also picked up an Apple Vision Pro (secondhand) this week, so will be spending the weekend figuring out how to get things like the gaming PC working with it. And also work out how well travel mode works ahead of flying to Spain next week, which will likely make the difference on whether I take it or not. (I suspect I will, new toy n all.)

Working on my plain text cricket site[1]. Just realised after starting that getting reliable live cricket or sport data is super hard. Tried a paid provider[2] and it’s frustratingly inaccurate. Need to figure out a better way!

[1] https://criclite.com [2] https://cricdata.org

I haven’t decided. Our CI times are kinda nuts - cfn-lint takes something like 8 minutes. I profiled it and a massive amount of time is in one function. I’m thinking I might fork and optimize. I also started a project to ground-up rewrite cfn-lint but the rules are wasm and the runner is Rust. It’s a lot faster but obviously every rule would have to be ported over, which I’m not going to do. I might get it into a decent state this weekend and OSS it? idk

That or maybe I’ll optimize some Dockerfiles.

Also gonna play Mass Effect 3, just wrapped up an ME2 run.

No specific order, but..

• Having some beers (North Coast Brewing’s Barrel Aged Old Rasputin)
• Wiping a pre-production Ceph cluster down to the bones and re-deploying it all to test some deployment and cluster changes
• Spending time with the kitty (because why wouldn’t you?)
• Playing some Assassin’s Creed: Shadows
• Taking a little day trip with a friend to one of the regional Big Cities, to explore, eat, drink, shop, to otherwise get out of the house and enjoy things.

• I plan to write a blog post about my use of a tiling compositor, because I read an (old) blog post dissing tiling WMs, and I just can’t even.
• I’ll write a followup for my blog post about fighting AI scrapers, with further observations learned since
• I’ll set up my Mom’s new Linux system (migrating her from Debian + GNOME to NixOS + niri, at her request)

Figuring out which parts of ASP.NET (and community libraries) I need to learn to mimic the productivity of Ruby on Rails.

Taxes, then drove family around my undergrad alma mater, which has the largest continuous college campus in the world, for fun. Wild that they’ve added a cell phone tower on the main campus.

Building a PC! Other than my little Linux homelab, it’s the first time I’ve done this since high school.