What are you doing this weekend?
7 points by caius
7 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!
Preparing for my LASIK surgery on Monday! I cleaned my room to get rid of as much dust as I could, bought the necessary eye drops, handled the paperwork for my absence with my manager, and am psyching myself up. It's gonna cost a pretty penny and I'm more than a little anxious, but I've lived with glasses for about 18-20 years now since I was a little child, so my excitement to get rid of them for the upcoming 15-20 outweighs any fears I might have.
Coding wise, I've been refactoring my Emacs config. I used to use Elpaca to manage my packages, but I realized it's a lot of added complexity for something I ultimately don't really need. Sure, without it my startup time grew from ~3 seconds to ~8, but it's one less dependency and use-package's :vc option works as a drop-in replacement for my purposes.
Good luck! I got it done about 5 years ago, and don't regret it at all! The experience of quasi-blindness at around the 2-3 day mark is eery, but recovery is pretty swift after that.
I'm writing a blog post about how we modified LMDB for a specific use case at Meilisearch. I'll also mostly play MewGenics! I just reached caves with a good team.
Walking everywhere, first because I pulled a muscle in my back and motion is lotion, and secondly because my car is in the shop with busted wheel bearings.
CodeI'm still working on the NSFW filter.
This week I got a bunch of training data by writing a script that uses the search engine's API to fetch queries (where I just searched for every form of depravity I could think of), and then labeling those with qwen3.5, to make a fasttext model outta that because I don't have enough compute to run transformer inference on 1.1B documents before the heat death of the universe.
Problem is the fasttext model is incredibly bad at this stage. It's accuracy is >90% on on data like the training data, but <1% for actual real world data. So now I've grabbed a bunch of entries it thinks is NSFW, feeding it to qwen to relabel it, and adding that to the training data with the hope it will nudge it into being good.
Walking everywhere, first because I pulled a muscle in my back and motion is lotion
I'm in a similar situation and this is so true. I've been stuck inside for most of the winter and what I've noticed is that I'm starting to get random pains and soreness that I didn't have when I was actively biking. Can't wait to be able to start again.
Doing my best to reconnect with real world after some negative professional feedback last week. A productive therapy session helped me reground myself in realizing that employment is not, and should not, be the most important thing in my life - that I should aim to do good work that I'm proud of, and to ensure that my loved ones are protected and provided for, and that anything beyond that is gravy. If this job works out, then great; if it doesn't, there are others.
After an abject failure last weekend, hopefully will ride my bike for real on Saturday.
To get ready for that spent the Friday evening cleaning the chain and cassette, giving it some air and will probably have to figure out how to adjust a 105 front derailleur.
Working on my finance/budget app. Built with Tauri which I'm really enjoying. So much that I have been trying to think of other apps I can build with it.
I am going to preach this sermon on Sunday: https://www.jjude.com/sermons/i-can-do-all-things/
So going to rehearse, prepare tomorrow.
I told everyone to touch grass last week, and I ended up getting sick. So I won't say it this weekend.
If 12am Friday counts as the weekend, I re-wired my telecaster. Probably going to read up on Lean if I have some time.
I suddenly got very interested in bun today, so I want to build something high-performance this weekend. Very excited :)