What are you doing this week?
14 points by caius
14 points by caius
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!
Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Working on an AI feature to get my manager promoted but that seems to serve no other purpose. What our customers really want is for our product to be more reliable but there’s no time, need to build AI for no one.
we are working on the same feature! just you wait till my claude agent finishes the task, it's really close, one more tweak left!
Just wrapping up a bot mitigation that doesn't rely on JS as a replacement for Anubis. Fiddling with the parameters so that it strikes a decent balance between keeping the clankers out while not being too annoying to the users.
Then I'm planning on getting started implementing an NSFW filter. So realistically I'm spending all week labeling porn, gambling, and e-pharma sites.
...is this a good place to thank you for all the work on your search engine? :p
I'm not sure how long I've been using it for (even if "only" as a secondary search), but especially in the post-slop era it's become indispensable; the results are often much better than what I get with DDG and such.
Thanks!
I did some fiddling with the ranking algorithms a while back and since then it seems to be much better at cutting through the slop. Maybe at some cost to recall, though I feel the overall vibe of the results is very good now.
So realistically I'm spending all week labeling porn, gambling, and e-pharma sites.
For scientific purposes only, right? ;-)
I like your search engine, though I'm not a regular user. I was exploring and noticed the similar sites finder, and the results for lobste.rs made me laugh because the first site on the list is not allowed to be posted here, and two of the others are operated by that same person.
Very much conjuring my Bender energy in anticipation of this task.
Yeah it's got a real knack for digging up unexpected relations between websites, since it uses historical data some of these relationships maybe likewise be historical.
Writing a blogpost about how I over-engineered the infrastructure setup behind my website even more 😁.
My bonus daughter is moving this coming weekend so I am on standby to shift stuff to storage or recycling (I am the only one in the family with a driver's license).
Fighting internal priority battles to assure the services we have been working on since October will not get pushed back to September in favour of "other business needs", and instead get deployed in April like we planned.
As a weekend(s) project, just building a small website to help people navigate the Japanese government housing websites (UR, JKK, ...) because they have outdated/inconvenient UIs.
Gonna clean my bikes, lube the chains, maybe rewrap the handles on one of them, check the tires etc.
For work I am finishing up a couple projects which have taken much longer than they had any right to, and then I'll start working on writing some documentation for some other projects which I need to hand off to other teams.
I cleaned my dirtiest bike yesterday and this morning set a near record on my commute to work. A clean bike is a fast bike.
Congrats on a new record!
One of my goals for the year is to try commuting to work on my bike. It's an 8~ mile ride, so not too long, but it's in exclusively very car-centric areas, so it's more dodgy than it ought to be.
That reminds me, I need to order new bar tape for the zwift bike and find the posh stuff I bought for the road bike before the weather is good enough to get back outside.
Seeing the seventh ENT doctor about my chronic nose issues today. Intro meetings with two startups from the USA on Friday to hopefully land some full-time consulting gigs with them (one actually reached out because they saw one of my posts on lobste.rs). Working on a conference talk so that I have something for CFPs for the second half of the year.
Heading to Taiwan with our 7m baby in our first big family trip and introducing him to my in-laws.
Exploring Digital delay designs in Pure Data as a way to prototype a few effect plugins/pedals ideas.
Got back to Bearblog and created three subblogs: Notes, TIL and links. The last two will be used the most probably.
Good luck! Traveling with little ones is always a challenge, but it sounds like it will be worth it since your baby gets to meet his or her grandparents!
Heading to Taiwan with our 7m baby in our first big family trip and introducing him to my in-laws.
Enjoy that! Seeing grandparents with babies is a really special kind of fun.
It's the second week of the spring semester in Switzerland, so I'm mostly occupied with studying. I was lucky to get a spot in a lab course, where we get all the tools, materials and support to design, conduct and analyze our own experiments in a group. I think it will be pretty fun, but it's starting to look like a lot of work already.
Getting our pipes inspected and hopefully getting a reasonable offer on a relining. If they are able to offer relining, we might finally be able to put back the flooring in the living room again... Work related, I've landed a new consultancy assignment where I will work with Kafka, so I will start to dig into that.
I've create a OAAT type hash and PRNG in ~10 lines which passed smhasher, smhasher3, PractRand, SmokeRand.
My laptop caught on fire this weekend. I was hoping to get it repaired, taking the 5-hour bus to the capital, after trying what I could—but it seems the display part of the mobo is fully FUBAR from whatever happened. I have had really bad luck with Lenovo.
Ideally, figuring out exactly the structure of the article I want to write about accessibility... Although I've been working for nearly two months off and on it, and I still haven't figured out exactly how I want to present my ideas.
I've learned a lot of cool things since I lost the ability to use a traditional keyboard and mouse some months ago. I want to share what I've learned, and share my experience of becoming disabled at the same time, all while charting a (dismal) outlook of what's next for the space... But I've really struggled to come up with a blend of the three that doesn't sound overly rambly, or angry, or enthusiastic.
It doesn't help that the actual act of physically writing the article is still pretty painful.
Just got back from Mexico City. Long trip, getting some rest today (national holiday) lots of things to work on from tomorrow, as we are undergoing a cost-cutting epic on AWS and third party providers. Lots of EKS components and home-built tools to upgrade. Will be an interesting week!
Trying to understand the rust port of libjs in ladybird and maybe contribute some cleanups so its more rusty