What are you doing this weekend?
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16 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!
I'm honestly not sure. I have lots to do, some of it pretty exciting, but IL HB5511 passing to the Senate, the introduction of national HR8250, and finally reading "The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess" have made me less motivated and more, uh, uninterested in continued existence than I've felt in a very, very long time. I think I'm mostly going to be trying to figure out how not to care about technology anymore, if that's even possible.
Advice appreciated, since I assume many here are in the same boat.
Are you ever around younger children, nephews and the like? Seeing how they come into the world happy and unburdened by the past is inspiring. In some ways you can consciously choose to be like that, too.
Good advice for many, probably, but tinged with bitter irony here in that part of the point of these bills is to "protect" children from learning that people like me exist. (I am transgender.)
If you feel powerless, there are two ways to get relief:
Starting Baldur's Gate 3 after having beat Diablo II last week. Baldur's Gate 2 is another bucket list item that I figured, hey, 3 got raving reviews, I might as well play that instead.
I want to play either of these but I also know that they would destroy my life so I just put it off until next Christmas break (when I allow myself to play and finish one game). This year we played through the Lost Crown.
Working on my language. Finished up some topic branches. Fixing bugs. Reworking some features. I was supposed to wire up all the error paths but I've been unconsciously procrastinating that task due to how painful it is.
I think I'm gonna take a break from it all and write an article instead. I'm implementing things faster than I can blog about them.
Taking my wife out-of-town to attend a 2-day drifting course for her birthday, after she expressed interest in learning a few months ago.
In the downtime while she's doing that - splitting my time between:
Gonna do a bouldering session after a couple of weeks hiatus, and taking a break from working on Limberly this weekend. We finally got some sun over here :)
Going to read "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. I've been floating on the surface too long, looking to get an understanding that may go deeper and probably onto appreciate computing holistically.
In case you've never seen it, I found nandgame.com to be a good companion to the Petzold book. nandgame is itself based on The Elements of Computer Systems and the nand2tetris course, all of which are good resources for bridging the gap between understanding basic electronics and understanding a whole computer system.
A bike ride on Saturday and hiking with a friend Sunday.
Still getting oriented with Mahogany. It's running and I'm able to launch Emacs. It's a bit rough, but basic keyboard bindings are setup to move between windows, and from Emacs I can launch other programs and use Slime to connect to the Mahogany process and poke around at internal state and call functions, define keyboard shortcuts, etc.
The StumpWM features I'm missing the most are the taskbar/modeline and the ability to jump to windows by number. The modeline doesn't appear to be implemented yet, and jumping by number might be related to that... without the modeline I don't know what the window numbers would be.
I'd also like to get the "Run shell command" and "Evaluate" commands working. These might be implemented and I just haven't found them yet.
without the modeline I don't know what the window numbers would be.
As a StumpWM user, I use two ways of knowing the numbers: windowlist, and forced numbers assigned based on e.g. window titles in a hook.
I am on vacation, and working on the website for "build your own CPU", a video course where you learn how to build a CPU on an FPGA dev board.
I need a tool to recursively search directories of large files for byte arrays and integers of different sizes and endianness. I want it for reverse engineering and forensic analysis at work. I want to be able to use it the same way I use rg and fd. I tried several implementations of 'bgrep' and none of them check the boxes for me, so I'm going to make one.
Last several weekends and a chunk of a fortnights holiday were spent implementing left/right margins in a terminal emulator. I think thats pretty solid now - probably more so than in most terminal emulators. But I still need to run through DECs specs again to try and make sure I haven't missed anything. Not every exciting work.
So this weekend I'm going to do take a break and work on something more fun: DRCS aka soft-fonts! I also had an attempt at this while on holiday and got a long way in a short time - vtnibbler, vtrex, vtinvaders and termtris are all working nicely, but there is still some missing functionality concerning text (rather than full-cell) fonts.
Family:
Hobby:
Playing more Slay the Spire II with old gaming buddies from a decade ago (seems everyone picked it up). Working on putting together business ideas as programming is hopeless for my skillset & my location (remote).
Probably tinkering on a small word puzzle game I’ve been building. It’s a Chinese character/word-linking game with short rounds, so I’m polishing the board feel and trying to make mobile play smoother.https://www.chunqiuyiyu.com/word/
Spouse bartered for a Switch; time to play the classics together.
Working in the firmware mines on a custom PCB. Have to implement SCSI mass storage device class from scratch in Embassy (async Rust) at some point, maybe this weekend. Lord help me.
Time with baby.
Yakshaving midi controller and sequencer app instead of learning or making music 😄.
Tractor shopping but other than that, first of the year yard work. Also staining a bench I built a couple weeks ago but never finished. Then maybe writing another post on my work towards self hosting some services.