What are you doing this weekend?
10 points by caius
10 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!
Runescape, emacs, beer, explosions
Paternity leave 👍
I'm turning 2^5 on Saturday, and on Sunday I'm hopeful that I might be able to get the nvidia drivers working properly on debian trixie.
Happy birthday! My current fav way to say this is “I’m 10 digits old”. I used to say “I’m ten thousand years old” but I decided that’s going a bit far.
I am attending some events mourning the death, after 250 years, of the experiment in democracy rather than autocracy in my country.
Also prepping for a two-day "hackathon"-style exercise next week with our UK division, hoping to demonstrate the ease of use of the system I develop for work.
Non-American here - but someone who once was a card carrying member of a non-American political party that featured a bust of the Statue of Liberty in our logo.
My condolences for what's happened to your country. I hope you can recover, I really do. Only a few decades ago you were an inspiration to many, and you might well be that again.
Attending the latest edition of IndieWebClub and hopefully finishing the Horizon Forbidden West game for good so I can make space for something else 😄
Potentially setting up Librechat on my homelab. Not for chatting, but to hopefully hack together a customizable "search engine" that caters more closely to my desires (small web, blogs, ideally technical). We shall see how it goes.
Messing with on the same Godot-based Field-like as I did last week.
Since then I was visited by Warren's spectre, and implemented thief-like stealth mechanics, and some magic that's powered by sprites that light you up. Felt like an interesting tension. Oh, and ladders. Enemy AI is a bit broken though. They stagger too easily now.
Here's where we're at now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYB1K43iNk
Hanging out at a local nerd con, not thinking about (nonfiction) computers and otherwise taking a break from the real world.
I'm taking part in Jugend hackt Long Term Support. It's a grant for teens where we work on projects for a year in groups. Our summer sprint is this weekend.
This means I will probably do a lot of Rust & PGP stuff for our project and a bit of TypeScript.
Writing a MMORPG in Elm - finishing up on the stock exchange-like marketplace.
Visiting in-laws and generally trying to unwind from a kind of stressful week.
Tech-wise, I accidentally made a quick and dirty XMPP client in guile this week by writing bindings to xmpp-rs, because I needed it for Reasons. Might try to polish it up a little bit. The proper way to coordinate tokio with fibers is completely beyond me at the moment, but the sxml <-> rxml::Element boundary seems a little more tractable
Heading on sunday to the US. First to Vienna, VA to do onsite kickoff of a PoC in the Antithesis offices then later in the week to NYC to do some in person push to finish a project with a coworker
Getting player collisions and level transitions working for the 2D platformer I’m working on in Bevy, trying to finish Disco Elysium, and relaxing with some long overdue time off.
Its the weekend everything has clashed over, think at last count there's about 10 events that I'd been invited to or wanted to attend this weekend.
The winning picks were going to the local organic farm's 20th anniversary event celebrating community ownership and what's happened on the farm over the last year. Then heading up to the lakes to see other Z4 owners and enjoy some decent roads.
Adding Tailscale and llama.cpp to my dedicated OVH server, via NixOS. Exciting stuff!
Dabbling in Zig.
I have this whole sprawl of audio DSP code spanning the last decade or so, most of it in C using this odd codegen framework I assembled in Python. At one point, I attempted to do a Rust port using procmacros, but still came up short due to the general lack of reflection.
So far, the Zig port has leapfrogged where I got to in Rust, and is not only approaching what I have in C/Python but has allowed me to fix some longstanding issues I was never able to fix satisfactorily. Still some rough edges around the work I'm doing, and Zig itself isn't all sunshine and rainbows either, but I'm having a really good time so far.
Working further on a compositor for my OS. New display stack / protocol. Can now render windows from client applications. Touch input also works. Very happy with the results... QML based compositor. Creating various window managers right now (themes / shells).
Hanging out with family and friends!
kvr, the audio plugin/programming forum, is hosting a new plugin jam with submissions due sunday.
I had an idea for it, and of course, it's 80% there, meaning there's another 80% of work that I'm struggling to gas myself up to do. So I may just "get what i can, done", and share it more normally at a later date.