What are you doing this weekend?
13 points by caius
13 points by caius
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.
Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!
Proposing to my girlfriend, finally!
I quit my job today so I’m gonna play Mass Effect this weekend.
I’m so tired this morning I read this as you quit your job in order to play mass effect. 🙃😴
Moving my blog from from Hugo to my own static-site generator because I like to suffer. Will be a PoC first - hope it works out.
And short vacation in Munich - for the beer.
I've done the same. I'd rather maintain a code base that's tailor made for me than dealing with static site generators that will do breaking changes to improve shit I didn't care about to begin with. It's also much easier to do whatever you want than figuring out somebody else's complex generalized systems.
I will also be working on migrating my blog! In my case from Jekyll to Astro. I know jack shit about Astro so it’s going to be a long process. Also I’m using a premade (but somewhat customized) Jekyll theme and I have very little understanding of CSS, so that’s going to be a whole thing.
I've been playing with the idea of migrating my blog as well. Is there a reason why I should be using Wordpress anymore?
Wordpress has never appealed to me, it felt too heavyweight for a bunch of plain text. I really like the static site approach even solely based on vibes. In my case I want to move to a generator written in a language I know well so I can customize things better, so if someone was a PHP dev I could see reasons why they’d like Wordpress? I don’t know what the static site story looks like in that part of the world.
Organizing and pruning my home office and electronics workbench. A lot of undead projects need to have funerals and a few revived. I want to stop spending most of 5-6 days a week in a room cluttered past discomfort.
Part of the impetus is having received a large Kintex Ultrascale+ PCIe board to do some GNU Radio development with, and wanting to replace a sketchy laptop that I've been using as a desktop with a proper workstation PC. Parts arrive early next week, but I have zero space for it to go.
I'm coding my own alternative to VSCode. Can't risk using such a big attack vector all day long.
This has been one of my never-started likely-never-will wouldn't-it-be-so-cool-if project ideas of mine! Specifically, an editor that has feature-equivalent native-GUI and TUI renditions (no Electron), but supports the VSCode setup basics such as settings.json, tasks.json, keybindings.json, and especially a NodeJS-based Extension Host exposing the exact same VSCode Extension API (allowing reuse of all that neat tooling out there that's going even beyond LSP yet only operates on VSCode's neat & clean non-DOM "Code Editor API", excluding the very few extensions that sport HtmlViews and such) ... would be so cool, one (or rather, so many of us) could easily migrate, or even share a single editor setup between workplace IDE (vscode) and private (yours).
Rooting for ya! Repo up yet, to subscribe/follow?
Btw. if you're into the "native-GUI plus TUI" angle and would like to study a minimalist-code-size yet peak-perf mature code editor written in C (minimal core) and Lua (extensions, plus much built-in editor functionality) and actively maintained since 2007, consider checking out TextAdept for inspiration or study or even a starting basis! Based on Scintilla and edits smoothly, has multi-cursor selection/editing etc all the goodies. It's bafflingly underhyped. Could have eaten Sublime's lunch back then, except it's FOSS and lacks marketing and such fluff. =)
Thanks for the reply! You got a much more interesting VSCode alternative in mind than mine! You definitely should implement it haha, super cool. I'm going with Electron and a JS framework I built using custom elements. I did not create a repo for it yet but will be publishing the framework as open source soon!
Actually just spelling it all out got me hooked on the idea again... maybe I will tinker around in that rough direction after all :D
I think a bigger reason to look for something else is VSCode's proprietary lock-in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24047638
Running a four-player session of Spirit Island (lowest difficulty, no expansions) which I expect to take like four hours since most involved have only played it a couple of times.
I'm on a Polish Linux conference: Linux Autumn - https://jesien.org/2025/en/
After years of not going to any conferences I want to socialize a bit more.
Film festival, board gaming, maybe some more work on current model project, reading, more experimental refactoring of an JavaScript interpreter and maybe some sleep in there at some point. Maybe.
Unexpectedly off to potentially buy a new to me car, back into an estate car from an MPV and a hot hatch. Stars aligned and we’ll see what comes of it. Day out with the wife and looking at some high end cars at the garage if nothing comes of it. Can’t complain.
Thinking about writing a small CLI utility in Zig that just prints out the components of a URL as a tree. I have been working with signed URLs a lot lately and it’s difficult to spot issues as a raw URL
My weekend is pretty full of family events but I'm hoping to play around with the Helix editor this weekend
My girlfriend is out of town, so I finally have some time to spend with my second baby, my desktop.
I am starting a new job where they use Kotlin, which I am not familiar with yet, so I started Kotlin by example (a derivative of Go by example).
I am also building a CPU (have been for around, what, at least five years, at this point it's more something I say I do than something I actually do). I have an old version laying around, but I bought a new dev board and want to be a bit more structured about the project. So, I want to revamp the project, starting with a solid basis and hopefully keeping some momentum. My ultimate plan is to sell a "build your own CPU" course (amd get rich off it, of course).
Writing the throughline for a blog post about evaluating whether to make your app offline-editable or not. It's a big lift, but I think the current rallying cries of decentralization, data privacy, and data ownership may be good to attract the innovators, but aren't good criteria for the early majority user. I lay out what I think is a better criteria.
Trying to mount a Bluetooth speaker roughly the size and weight of a brick to the already tiny and overcrowded handlebar on my commute bike. An upright tripod-style clamp is too flimsy for potholes etc so gonna try to jerry-rig something more robust with hardware store pipe clamps, flat strips of aluminum, a drill, and velcro straps.
Also: doorknock for the pro-housing candidate for Seattle's mayor (Katie Wilson) and parent my young kiddo.
I have some weekend study groups that I attend (and sometimes lead). I'm also gonna finish testing out the zomboid server container I got up and running last night. I need to look into whether podman supports nftables or not because I've been having port mapping issues with other containers that I'd like to avoid when I'm gaming with friends. Luckily, moving my settings to iptables is really easy on nixos, changing my mind about which firewall tech to use is the hard part lol.
I should also clean my room and do a bit of pending server maintenance. We'll see what all fits.
Rehearsals for a concert I don't really want to attend. If I have any time left I might do some frontend Gleam with Lustre.
I moved from Fedora KDE installation to KDE Linux, to help out with testing. It also has nightly git master build so it makes sense, I was already doing that but building manually.
Hopefully getting to the end of my illness I've had this week, and then I'll have loads of paperwork to go through.
I'm tinkering with my current work-side-project. I try to intentionally leave as much of the coding as possible to the LLMs, and just focus on managing the structure and context of the repo.
Works quite well for coding against the old ASN.1-based file format for European tachographs (electronic logging devices in heavy trucks).
Turns out I'm trying out macOS window managers: https://alper.nl/dingen/2025/10/window-managers/
Hopefully, find some time to learn how to embed Python using WASM for my latest obsession. I think there's a fun opportunity to use WASM to make configuration files much more powerful!