What are you doing this week?
13 points by caius
13 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.
Getting ready to fly out to Portugal for an important medical event at the end of next month!
As much as saccharine words from an internet stranger probably don't help, for what it's worth I think framing it as wasting isn't healthy (Thanks I'm cured vibes I know). Previous experience informs current thought and personality and I'm sure there's people who have been and are impacted by the knowledge (or personality) you have. As someone whose been helped (and had a whole career trajectory helped along) by people whom had deep knowledge but also depression and "imposter syndrome" it's worth mentioning in my eyes (so much so I stopped lurking!).
I'm flying to Brussels tomorrow to attend FOSDEM 2026. It's my first long-haul flight (ICN → AUH → BRU; 10 hours + 7 hours) in over 10 years, so I'm a bit nervous. Oh, and I'll be giving a talk at FOSDEM 2026. If you're interested in the social web or ActivityPub, please come and listen!
At work: oncall, planning, and a mandatory AI course... so not super-exciting.
Outside: continuing to iterate on my rewrite of the EndBASIC compiler/VM. I've been having a lot of fun with the fundamentals and already got it to a point where all of it is there (register allocation, function calls, constants/heap, easy to manage integration testing, and a relatively solid foundation). So from here on, it's "just" a matter of "coding up all corner cases" like all different expression types, type validation, etc. which is going to be annoying. But I'm really looking forward to get it to a point where I can get code to run and compare performance with the previous implementation.
Inspired by a conversation on #lobsters, trying to find a recipe for homemade soy milk that is good enough to replace the commercial stuff. Hopefully writing about a completely unnecessary firewall technique.
Hmm, 5 years ago or so I made some myself as well. It was fine enough I guess, I never used any sweetening agents, but I also have no taste (mildly literally, mostly figuratively) so I'm not the greatest judge here.
Have you already tried some recipes? How were the results?
I have, the results so far have been drinkable but not great. Currently I'm using 80g of dry soy beans, soaked for 8h, with 100ml of apple juice as a sweetener and 1L of water. I get quite a few fines that are slightly bitter and also separate out a bit after some time has passed. Clearly I need to get myself some cheesecloth for straining. I experimented with xanthan gum to stabilise it too, but it didn't go well; I might revisit that idea when I've solved the filtration problem. Also I want to see if using boiling water for the initial soak improves the taste.
Huddling up under blankets to watch the snow outside. At least until I get bored/cabin-fevery enough to actually brave the cold. But it's nice for the moment.
Continuing work on planning a trip to Portugal. Negotiations with the partner's anxiety continue apace.
Oh right, and fighting with Prometheus and Grafana.
Huddling up under blankets to watch the snow outside
I never expected to use these words, but, username checks out ;)
Job search, week 2.
One recruiter says a company is interested, so he's trying to set up an interview this week. I'm going to keep applying, but I'm going to work on some blog posts, first up is about creating compile-time binding from C++ to Lua with template metaprogramming. I had some fun making a build/scripting language with Antigravity last week, but I was thinking of continuing my VM/emulation kick with some Rust practice writing a RISC-V emulator by hand.
Getting rid of the remains of my flu, meeting with students doing a course project in Nova JavaScript engine, FOSDEM, and maybe some more Rust language design discussions if it so happens.
I seem to have done all that I set out to do in January, so I will be planning my next month. Also I need to rethink and unify my personal knowledge management system, because it's currently scattered across four different applications.
My ice skates have arrived and I haven't ice skated in so long that that'll probably be what I'll be doing this week a lot.