What are you doing this week?

17 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.

tinsmith

Quitting my job.

I am finally moving on from burning myself out by dousing fires for 12 - 14 hours a day (7 days a week, mind you) the paralytic anxiety of being constantly on-call outside those hours, and working under a leadership that focuses more on squeezing blood from stones instead of product improvement. I am quite tired.

I've been in talks with a company that will allow me to still do what I do (fix stuff) but at a scheduled and expected pace, reclaiming my evenings and weekends when I am not traveling to onsites, and seems to understand that my job is not my life. They sent a compelling offer over the weekend, and I am accepting it.

My loved ones and hobbies are thrilled to have me returned to them in one piece. I cannot wait to have time to do personal things again like read books, cruise lobste.rs or watch an interesting video on Nebula without having to take a long bathroom break or faking illness.

kryptiskt

For the first time, I'm getting paid to write Rust, which will look great on my CV.

During the weekend, I wrote assembler code as I said. I made a freestanding simple assembler program, made a C program that used my assembler lib instead of libc and the opposite, an assembler program that links to libc and uses that. I will continue to experiment, one thing I'm interested in is making a tiny garbage collector for a tiny language.

koala

Well, second in the thread posting this: we announced a few hours ago my resignation.

I wanted to try my hand at teaching in about ten years from now, but the uncertainty I feel wrt. to our trade altered my plans. I figured out maybe it will be easier to get certified to teach when I'm ten years younger (it's a one year master's degree to be able to teach both high school [14-18] and trade school).

I don't know what I'll do after the master's. I hope there will be more clarity when I'm done as to where the industry is going. If things seem to reinforce my worst predictions, I hope I'll be ahead of others who might also want to try become teachers.

insom

I'll be the third person in this thread leaving their job then; last day is Friday.

It's been a really curious experience of initially thinking I wasn't able to do this job -- despite a successful career -- then figuring it out and realizing I just don't want do that kind of work. For at least the first half of my career it felt like jobs were so hard to find that you should do anything that you are actually capable of (or the best paying thing you are capable of) -- but I'm figuring out it's very reasonable to align your work with your interests.

Going to spend the Fall catching up on house and interpersonal and side-business things that I've neglected these last few months.

pyj

I found a game idea I like that's scoped enough. Basic gameplay is stood up, and I can make levels with the map editor already. I also have an input replay system! Not bad for a week's work.

I've been doing it "artisanal", but I started farming out little features to AI like I'm the team lead to learn to use AI better. It feels like cheating, but I wrote really good bones to this thing by hand which I'm leveraging. I've never been a team lead, so I'm trying to use it to build that muscle.

marginalia

Migrating marginalia search off static document descriptions to query based snippets. It's slow and mostly hands off, about half way done, should hopefully finish up sometime this week.

If anyone is curious on how snippets are generated, turns out the literature just says to do TF-IDF on the sentences in the document. Works pretty well.

ngp

Trying not to burn out.

zesterer

I realised I want to learn more about core web technologies, so I'm building a personal git forge on top of my own homebrew web framework. Seems to be working so far and messing around with parsing HTTP is fun!

I'm doing a 'manual vibe-coding' approach: throwing code at the wall as fast as possible, bouncing off the type system, keeping the whole thing small enough that I can reverse or reinvent even core abstractions in a matter of minutes.

DustyFuzzy

At work, porting stuff to .NET 10.

At home, hopefully writing some blog posts. I just set up Sveltia CMS, so I don't have to fire up VS Code to write stuff anymore, just for the final publishing step. Hopefully the first post will be about setting that up.

This is, of course, assuming I can pull myself away from Minecraft for a while. Automating stuff with the Create mod is way too fun.

csomar

Setting up a VPS and taking my privacy more seriously. I'll slowly begin contemplating self-hosted and controlled alternative and move to them. Eventually, I'll get a dedicated box with secure compute and be fully disconnected from the matrix.