What are you doing this weekend?

I released my first side-project! I usually overthink a lot, I perfect, refactor and add feature creep and then I never do anything with it. Thinking that if I add that feature, or if I refactor that screen that I'll have a better chance at getting someone to pay for it.

This time I set myself a deadline to release and I released it on time! I'm super happy, it's not perfect, it has rough edges (some people have already hit them) and I've been iterating and fixing them as soon as I can. And last night I got my first two paying customers!

So I'll probably be iterating, checking what's going on, giving it to a couple of friends so they can destroy it before we travel with my family next week without a computer.

Going bouldering! I'm visiting San Francisco for a few weeks, and excited to check out Dogpatch Boulders -- it looks massive. Hoping to also do some outdoor climbing while I'm here, but probably not this weekend.

[p.s. if anyone is reading this, climbs, and is in the city, lmk if you'd like to go bouldering :) ]

My wife wrote and is in a play at the 10-min play festival in the Seattle area (Bainbridge to be specific). So I'm taking the kids on Saturday to see it.

It's hard to live with a creative spouse who seems to effortlessly be good at any new art form. I'm just here building software, haha.

I broke my dang collarbone jumping from a boat to a dock so this weekend I'll put the boat in storage and prep the camper van for travel. I have a few ideas about modding Home Assistant for use in vehicle abodes (vans and sailboats, for example :-) so I may start poking around in that code base.

I am revisiting digital signal processing that I learnt 28 years back. Probably I will spend some time writing some code (by hand, of course, that's the whole point) and plot some stuff.. I am also starting to read David MacKay's book on Information Theory and probably try to work out a few recommended problems..

We have a Handmade meetup over at Boston tomorrow: there should still be enough slots! (If you're interested but can't attend you could join the Boston mailing list for next time.)

Happy Friday.

Weekend work! Going to be working on Saturday to cut down on the backlog before release while enjoying the +100% overtime pay.

Found a cheap second hand copy of 'Programming Elm'.
I will be reading that as far as I can this weekend. And playing with some code of course.
(My first steps into actual web frontend stuff.)

I’m revamping the signin/signup flow of a side project, maybe for the 2nd or 3rd time, and I still struggle to find the right balance between usability and security. I’d love to make it passkeys-only but I know it’s not going to work in the real world, people really need something else, like OTPs sent by email. So I’m ending up shaving the yak with multiple auth methods with different secret tokens and different rate-limiting rules… it’s a mess.

im doing a computer graphics class at my university using openGL

the delivery of the first project is setted for 09/01 and we need to implement and render a scene with 5 objects using basic geometric forms, two of them need to be 3d

i already implemented a sphere, cilinder, cube and cone. so in this weekend i will build the scene using these objects

Trying to get OpenBSD to boot on my file system, I think. It'd be fun delivering my talk about porting it fully self-hosted.

Writing the architecture for my new pet-project that would be lazy self-playing game with 80s ZX Spectrum vibes. Today I'm generating ideas, tomorrow I will cut them in half (maybe several times) and then prototyping will hopefully come.

I'll be visiting North Leigh Roman villa (UK) as they're opening up access to the preserved mosaic floor over the weekend. There are descendants of escaped snails the Romans used to eat which still live there; they're large and easy to spot if the weather is cool enough for them to be out.

Traveling to the Finger Lakes area with friends to have an actual vacation.

Been playing around with hermes agent. I got so much done. I posted this comprehensive post of how I'm using hermes for WINS (wealth, insights, network, and self): https://www.jjude.com/tech-notes/hermes-wins/

With the positive response from friends, working on converting that into a mini-guide in e-book format (with hermes of course)