What are you doing this week?
11 points by ag
11 points by ag
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!
Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Happy Holidays!
I'm on holidays so I am not gonna do anything I dont want to.
I'm on holiday until... January 9th.
I wrote a small org file with three things:
edit: apparently setting up bbr as the TCP congestion control method on Linux devices seems to help. It's mentioned in a few Wireguard performance articles, but I was surprised.
Making my TV-PC work better. I'm fed up with all the horribly laggy ways you can get streaming apps to work on your TV, so I decided to try putting a full x86 PC. And yes, it's much more responsive, but it sucks in its own way. (Currently using ChimeraOS, Steam, web streaming sites, and a cheap small keyboard + touchpad remote.)
Improved mute in videoconferencing. I got a 3-pedal USB device that now I can use to toggle hardware mute on Gnome, but I'd prefer to use the soft mute in each system. Found a web extension that helps, now I need to figure out how to send keys to Slack (on Wayland), and tie everything together, likely with MQTT.
I'm not sure I'll do anything :(
Isn't doing nothing partly what holidays are all about? :)
I normally frame it as "doing the things I want" and "not doing the things I don't want". But, even that, yeah, I don't particularly want to do any of those.
But I just fixed my Wireguard issue, I think, so at least I got some reward...
My anniversary is this week.
Taking a few detours, I am now finally at the point where I should be able to hopefully smash out a landing page for Nixtamal instead of the bare README by end of year; I said I would do this like 2 weeks ago, but we know how it is. These detours have been valuable tho—either in better understanding OCaml/Nix, dogfooding the tool (which is working well!), or spending time with loved ones.
Writing some 5000 words of documentation at work :'D
On the more fun side, I'm finally playing Horizon Forbidden West and plan to finish it by the end of the week.
Porting my (high performance) c based programming language interpreter to rust because I am going insane in my abstractions. Also experimenting with bevy and card games. And finally going back to doing work in my sql lsp and static analyser.
Besides enjoying the time, rereading amazing "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" book and working on the MySQL vs PostgreSQL perf tests :)
Just open-sourced a small sandboxing tool based on my personal experience of running third-party code to avoid the scenario where npm malware shows up on my machine or coding agent deletes my home directory
I just said goodbye to my old university mate who's been staying here for a few days before going to visit family elsewhere in the country (he lives abroad).
The rest of the week: The usual holiday stuff: celebration, ceremonial overeating and gift exchange with family, and not doing anything too demanding. I'll probably just be playing some video games and relaxing.
I find myself thinking a bit about what it was about earlier computers that made using them feel much more joyful than my current experience.
working on a tiny spotify to musicbrainz resolver with a little more urgency than normal given the spotify anna's archive thing
I've been wanting to tinker with a minimal AI-powered learning personal assistant. The idea was to give it absolutely minimal tools to read and write Markdown files, instructing it to note down anything it "learns", and periodically run a sidecar process to summarize/compress/index the information. Seems like it'd be a simple way to bootstrap a learning process. In practice, models seem to be perfectly happy to claim that they called a tool without actually doing so, which is making this...tricky.