What are you doing this weekend?
12 points by caius
12 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!
Hopefully first group ride of the year.
Going to a birthday and doing more work on the ladybirds LibJS rust port
Touching grass, as all of you should.
It's sadly buried under half a meter of snow over here. I'll poke a green towel in the mean time.
Fiddle some more with my soon to be multiplayer Tetris.
Think some more about replacing rs485 with single pair ethernet.
Non-tech: Visiting my partner who's working on the other side of Jutland (after being delayed a day due to all the trains in Jutland getting canceled due to a signalling fault). We finally have a firm plan for having us both living in the same city again, in the same house, so we don't have to deal with long-distance any more. We made a vinegar from brown ale a few weeks back that we're going to try turning into mustard this weekend. No clue what we'll use it for, but we have a litre of brown ale vinegar that we need to do something with.
Tech: absolutely nothing. I'm taking this weekend off and ignoring my litany of hobby projects.(okay, maybe not absolutely nothing; I might have time on the train home on sunday for a minor PR to zig to fix some cmsghdr issues I ran into during the week)
I'll be fiddling with using a local LLM to label a bunch of search results, so that I can train a dumber and faster CPU-only model to do NSFW detection at a scale of billions of documents.
So in practice, I'mma be twiddling my thumbs to the sound of coil whine in a balmy 40C home office as bite-sized snippets of the depravity of man slowly scrolls by in an 80x25 terminal window.
I'm also going to be taking my car for a drive, now that it's gotten a bit warmer, to see if it was making weird noises because of ice, or because the I have a bad wheel bearing.
Try to get my side-project released on the Mac App Store!
It's an app for japanese immersion: https://getkatari.app/ (not released yet so app store link doesn't work, feel free to ask me for a beta on testflight if interested). The whole app is free, there is a subscription for a service that does cost me money (the idea is that some content is very hard to understand, so I create small targeted stories at your level with key grammar and vocab so you can gradually understand the target content).
Going to an OSS meetup about 30 minutes by foot from my place that somehow I didn't hear about until recently. It's my first time there so not sure what to expect, but I know at least a couple of the people involved so I hope I'm gonna have a good time.
Non tech related
I am going to Mexico to see my gf who is in the process of a 4 month internship in biology!
I decided to split my app into to parts: Main app and Computation Core.
The main app is a web app written in vanilla php. The new Core part I want to write in Common Lisp, so i need to design it this weekend.
Finally redesigning my standard C++ logging library to be io_uring native. Not critical but long overdue.
As for why I bother maintaining my own logging library, necessity. It is hyper-efficient, non-allocating, macro-free, supports both synchronous and asynchronous modes, and most importantly, it has precise semantics and robust behaviors under severe resource pressure and failures. I was burnt by the architecture of popular open source libraries too many times. Also, who doesn't like writing their own logging libraries, that is practically a rite of passage.
It’s my 17th wedding anniversary, so the wife and I are staying at a hotel downtown while Grandma watches the kids. I might get some work done on my little scripting language.
Reserving my energy because of Ramadhan
Probably will be trying out developing GTK apps. Curious of how the development environment will be like.
Will be continuing to draw. I think I have started to understand how anatomy works roughly, so this weekend I'll be trying out gesture drawing. And also continue learning about perspective, maybe by drawing some trains in my city.
Same thing I was doing last weekend, adding left/right margins to a terminal emulator! I made some progress last weekend, but not as much as I had hoped. Left/Right Margin Mode can now be toggled, margins can be set and queried, and some stuff is even obeying them. Still a pile more cursor movement testing to do and then I need to actually implement scrolling within the margins.
Prepping for running a community booth for my nonprofit (https://civic.band) at SCALE (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x)
I have 50% of ticket codes if anyone in the SoCal area wants to go.
Trying to implement a regex crossword solver that doesn't use Z3 to do the heavy lifting.
Family day out as an early birthday treat for the youngest teenager. Should involve watching drag races, monster trucks, fast and loud motor vehicles. Pretty sure it’s at an airfield I went to an air show at when I was a youngster, interested to see if I’m remembering correctly or not.
Baby got vaccinated. So baby going to be crying a lot.
Other than that need to prepare for interviews as I'm about to be made redundant.