What are you doing this weekend?
22 points by caius
22 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!
Dusting off my resume because I was informed yesterday afternoon that my contract is expiring in ~9 weeks.
Good luck! I just went through a job search myself. I'd go to every networking event you can. Referrals help your resume get looked at and many folks will forward openings to you.
The statistics don't lie on this one, most successful hires don't go through standard applications channels; it's pull, not push.
If they want you, they'll find a way to get you without 8 rounds of HR faffing.
fucking around with chat clients instead of doing what I want to be doing, apparently
I'm in a weird mood: On the one hand I want to get back into some programming just for fun ... but I read that story about an Openclaw agent publishing personalized hit pieces on an open source maintainer who didn't want slop in his repo. I have decided that if I ever do get back into coding things for my own amusement, I will do so in a self-hosted environment without public write access except for people I know and trust personally - perhaps only point releasing tarballs or zipfiles, so the git repo is not even read-accessible to the public. It seems like public open source is a terrible idea now that it means you're opening yourself up to abuse by AI agents. (And likewise, posting anything personal online at all is probably creating a trove of information that said AI agents can use when targeting abuse at you).
I hate what these assholes are doing to the field I used to love.
So, I'll probably spend some time setting up such a self-hosted environment - if I still have any motivation tomorrow.
Otherwise - stare into blank air, I guess? I feel like all the other creative things I've tried taking up after AI are just "copium" as the cool kids say.
(footnote: I have the relevant tags blocked here on lobsters, but there are other vectors that terrible AI news find me.)
Tech: rewriting parts of my zig WireGuard implementation to more closely follow the spec when it comes to dropping packets and re-authenticating. I only have a couple of hours free to work on it though (on my train journey home), due to the below.
Non-tech: Cooking dinner for my partner's father's birthday. A beef wellington, with (probably) a red wine sauce, some fondant potatoes, and some pan-fried broccolini covered in a vinaigrette made from home made whiskey vinegar. It's somewhat complicated by the fact that he doesn't like mushrooms, so I'm subbing in a ground pork/miso pâté likely with a bit of cream to loosen up.
We're arriving at their place this evening, and I'm also cooking. At least it's less complicated tonight: just a fairly simple ragu, but I'm throwing in some tomatoes I've fermented as well.
home made whiskey vinegar
Oh, that sounds interesting. Didn't think the higher alcohol content of whiskey would work for vinegar fermentation.
It doesn't! Following the Noma Guide to Fermentation (would wholly recommend that book), you burn (or boil, but fire is fun and faster) the alcohol off a portion of whiskey and then add in additional whiskey to bring it back up to ~8% alcohol. Then top it up with some unpasteurised vinegar. In our case we followed the guide and went with ~15-20% unpasteurised Apple Cider Vinegar.
That mixture was put it a jar, covered with cloth (to prevent contamination), and an aquarium pump hooked up to pump air through it to increase the flow of oxygen and speed up the process of alcohol -> acetic acid fermentation. That last part turns a multiple months long process into a 1-2 week long process.
today I’m getting hammered on some 3 Sons craft beer, might hit a pub after with the same squad. Tomorrow is cinema day (Pillion), the day after will be lunch with friends.
Writing a mail client for the terminal in go, adding pretty diagnostics to more exception kinds in scheme-rs and for valentines day going to an indoor climbing hall. Hopefully itll be fun
Having a short bike trip and seeing Sentimental Value at the movies with the partner, and other than that... Probably forcing myself to cook something nice and eat and sleep well. It's been kind of hard during the last few weeks.
Tomorrow: ticking off 4 more Wainwrights since it should be sunny and dry
Sunday: watching Ross Noble do some standup.
tech-wise: probably not too much! maybe poke at my Crafting Interpreters in Zig project or the Haskell orbital simulator I started recently
today, i'm throwing as much sleep as possible at my body to hopefully get well by tomorrow, in time for the ski trip
Playing Foxhole and see if I'll write up a blog post about the attestation server I've been working on.
I am going to do laundry for the bed sheets and other sheets. Should have done it early this week (or last week) but I got lazy and every-time I just looked at it while hating that it's been a while. The machines are conveniently located at the first level of the condo. I wonder if they haven't been there what I would be doing.
Migrating FlickBoard away from Discord, while trying to prove to my bank(s) that I do, indeed, exist.
I had Claude port the backend of my side project from Rust to Go and will probably have it port the frontend from Dioxus to Svelte as well and then see if I can ship some nice things.
Brushing up on Go even if I don't have to write it, I still need to be able to read it.
Setting up this side project on the same Hetzner box that hosts it so I can develop on it using SSH with or without Claude.
Bacon, bacon, bakin' party! Hosting a Kevin Bacon movie marathon with bacon and baking. I'm baking a couple pies, my partner is making bacon-themed foods.
Trying to finish my first project in Gleam! As well as learn enough about FreeBSD jails in order to deploy it.
Hopefully more Gemini stuff. My blog is now on my desired structure (gemtext files in a repo -> HTML/gemtext static site generation using a git hook -> Apache httpd serving both gemtext and HTML through https using content negotiation -> Gemini proxy that fetches content from Apache httpd).
Now I'd like to make this setup more accesible to people. Gemini is cool because of their gemfeed specification; pages can have a link structure that is kinda of an implicit RSS feed. So that means it's viable to handwrite a Gemini blog and get an automatic feed that many clients and services use.
However, if you want to also expose your blog as HTML/HTTP, now you must do something to generate an RSS feed if you want people to be able to subscribe to updates.
I think I can package my setup nicely so that you can write your blog as Gemtext and get a blog-enabled HTML version for free.
I doubt anyone will ever use this, but I like it.
(And hopefully, packaging this up will improve my setup, which is quite bad right now.)
I need to do my taxes.
Nixtamal, seems like I could safely move to using Nixpkgs defaulting to releases from Hydra after luckily being corrected about my assumption that the tarballs get garbage collected (like the Chinese mirrors do). This would save everyone some data being like 30% smaller using LZMA over Gzip while not relying on Microsoft.
Aside from those, I have another focaccia or pizza (not sure which yet) fermenting in the fridge, & it would be fun to maybe attempt to get Ficl into TIC-80. I think I’m better off doing stuff that is fun & interesting, maybe scratching that artsy itch at this point since it looks like job market isn’t ready to settle with this AI race to the bottom. I am still interested in some Nix + Nix-adjacent work if you know anyone.
Finishing the wiring in my kitchen remodel, seeing if my claude-built personal project collapses under its own weight. TBH I'm really impressed that it hasn't already.
Finishing a driveby feature for Tangled (the ATProto git forge) to improve the search. I'm usually a step removed from any sort of UI so it's been fun working on something that people will actually interact with. I got involved for fun but now I'm between jobs so it doesn't hurt to stay sharp and have some recent OSS work I guess.
Fixing up stuff, doing some updates on my garmin watchfaces and drinking coffee (with whole milk because it was on sale!). And maybe gaming, if this tiredness could go away for a few hours.
Adding coverage-guided PBT input generation (AFL-style) in the Elm test library. Right now it only has random input generation.
Supposed to be: Finishing the last bits of the current build over at Leigh Hackspace. Putitng doors and windows on pods. Actual: Sitting on the sofa, getting fluids down and watching movies. The lurg has hit.
Updating a few plain text accounting ledgers and making the annual ansol.org accounting report.
Also maybe, just maybe, migrate a VPS or two to NixOS. I'm having trouble internalizing some concepts and I need to just do it.
Crazy basement tinkering project: I randomly saw an old (1990s) Japanese video intercom and for some reason was fascinated by the little sideways CRT screen (the electron gun is perpendicular to the display!). So I had to buy one on eBay and take it apart to see if I could use for something. Turns out the screen is entirely modular and just needs 12V and composite NTSC video, so yes. Now I'm putting a Pi Zero 2 W into it to drive the display (and the handset audio will also work). Normally I turn these retro impulse purchases into some sort of clock, but the brand is AIPHONE so I guess I need to think of some ironic thing to do with that…