What are you doing this weekend?

I am trying to playaround with opencode and local llm setup in my homelab that I have. I want to install and experiment multiple model available in hugging face. I am primarily experimenting with unsloth unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL.

Hanging with my kiddo and if I get the dark urge I may work on a MUD design. Otherwise hopefully a quiet relaxing weekend.

It was my birthday on Friday, so I took the day off work. I spent the morning volunteering (stripping wallpaper) at a local not-for-profit cafe that is preparing to move into a new venue.

The rest of the day was spent hanging out with family and trying out Howm, a note-taking mode that I found out about from the “Emacs packages I like” thread. (Typing this on mobile so don’t have a link.)

Today I’ve been to town to run errands, including booking another gig for my band, before working to dig out a root in my garden. Will be watching Rogue One with wife and the 14yo once I get out of the bath.

Tomorrow I may go for my first sail of the season. My interest in dinghy racing has waned a bit, and I’m considering selling the boat. I prefer cooperative (e.g. playing in a band) to competitive pursuits.

I set up an RSS feed for my blog. Now I'm diagnosing why one of my sprinkler zones doesn't like to pop up.

I had a talk accepted for Carolina Code Conference. I've never given a live talk before, so trying to figure this out and practice early.

I wrote a small Pokemon Go clone for the Pebble watch last night after getting an email that my Pebble Time 2 has shipped, so going to continue poking at that. I have it sending the 2-frame aPNGs for all the Gen 5 party icons to the watch from the phone app, so I can support all the pokemon without hitting watch-side storage limitations, along with a simple animation for catching them and recording catch counts on the app. I have to write a background worker for the watch that uses the step counter to trigger encounters now (or more likely wire up a periodic app wakeup timer and ignore the step counter part until next week).

I want to have an LLM add tags to all the pokemon, and then use those tags to bias the encounter rates in addition to the pokeball catch rates for each pokemon it currently does. I think it'd be cute to more often see fire types when it's sunny by using GPS location + weather, or space pokemon when its a full moon.

I've been extending the writing around my language.

I am also implementing a pipeline in my website to write literate programs directly from within the website that get weaved/tangled at build time. I've been implementing a live Common Lisp REPL for these pages so that literate Common Lisp programs can be experimented with from the website itself. For example I want to create a literate version of CLTRACE and to have literate versions of my Salsa-like computation graphs article.

I am trying to reduce Akvorado binary size (for unknown reasons). I have already switched away from Gin to net/http. I have also removed Gorm in favor of Bun (which is more DCE-friendly). I am trying to make expr also DCE-friendlier.

I want to try to add per-category ATOM feeds to my blog. But I think it would be better to not try (my SSG is a bit clunky and create files out of nothing is not its strong point) and instead focus on writing an article about how I've implemented RIB sharding to speed up Akvorado route lookups.