What are you doing this week?
5 points by caius
5 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.
I am re-reading C : The Programming Language - https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/books/C_Book_2nd.pdf .
It's fun to be back to square one sometimes !
Plan is wrapping up the last parts of my nlnet grant, sending in a request for payment, then kicking off my shoes and doing nothing for a bit.
Today I'm flying home after spending two months in Portugal. It's been the most stressful and weird flight of my life. When I get home I get to spend most of a day (~17h) in bedrest. The rest of my week is adapting to being home again, dealing with my taxes, bringing my homelab back online, and making a Stripe panel for Techaro.
making an imhex pattern for jpeg xl, so I can more easily gauge the format (as opposed to manually running through the standard/decoder logic) & fix some bugs in libjxl
at $work: i am aiming for a promotion to Senior and my boss told me i need to have more "impact," and the way to do is that is through helping other teams. i asked an adjacent team if i could help with their Active Directory management API project and they said yes, so i am digging into that. i haven't done "real" software development work before, and it's intimidating. i am used to writing one off scripts or hacking shit together for projects by myself, so coming into a software project and learning what's already there and figuring out the structure and then writing code for it is hard for me. also, while i've done this sort of thing before (aggregate data and then write it to a database and build a CRUD API for that database) i am certainly not an expert at it.
i keep finding myself working on a piece for a bit, realizing that i've lost track of the actual problem i'm trying to solve, back tracking to the problem, taking notes about what i just learned in my mind-wandering, and then repeating. after a couple hours i've made no progress and feel lost. then i take a break, do it again, and make some progress. it's slow going but highly educational for me.
at $home: i am trying to get more fit so i'm just spamming pushups, trying to do 50 a day. i realized that my form is pretty bad so now i am trying to correct it. gonna do some cycling this week, maybe buy a lawn mower, read a bit, play some chess. i am trying to avoid spending money so i'll just hang out with my wife a lot.