What are you doing this weekend?
20 points by caius
20 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!
worrying
No Kings protest, of course!
I'm continuing to recover from that surgery, it's been rough. I'm currently only allowed out of bed for 8 hours per day. I also just really wish I was fucking home and had my normal bed back.
I'm also cleaning up things in Techaro land, hopefully I'll be able to get thoth token issuance working by the end of the day.
Getting a tattoo! This'll be our fifteenth. Also continuing the job search (one of this week's rejections really stung, too). And of course social time with partners. Plenty of Slay the Spire II as well, another very impressive Godot project.
I wrote and published the blog entry I told myself I would this week, and then published two more which were roughed out. One maybe needed more work, but I have enough articles my SSG now needs a way to generate lists of pages by tag. I'm writing posts and code by hand, but I'm having a good time doing it.
Blog entries are some of the things that I should be doing this weekend but probably won't. :)
Flying home after a week in Dublin (for work). Some garden work and this years first BBQ with some friends.
+1 - I'm flying SFO-SYD so I'll spend the majority of the weekend in the air. Great trip, but happy to be heading home.
I think I may have written the best language learning app ever, in that it's the language learning app I've always wanted to use...Gonna polish it up and hopefully get it up and running somewhere.
I'm gonna improve my programming language's memory allocator. Improve the API, switch to a slab allocator algorithm and use mremap to reallocate whenever possible.
what's the language about?
I made a freestanding lisp from scratch using nothing but Linux's system calls. It's about using Linux to the fullest. For example, the Linux-exclusive mremap system call allows efficiently reallocating memory without copying. I made sure to exploit it.
I just completed the memory allocator work, by the way. Links are available on my profile if you're interested.
Probably rereading how https://tamarin-prover.com/ works! Hoping to write a blogpost about it.
Going to see Project Hail Mary. I read the book when it first came out and loved it, so I'm looking forward to seeing the movie, especially since I don't go out to the movies often.
Fiddling a bit with Godot, maybe adding support for multiple controllers to the multiplayer Tetris thing. Or adding something to the top-down flightsim. Or maybe looking into deterministic physics for the simultaneous Worms-thing. Or… Too many ideas, too little time.
Biking, hopefully finishing this interpreter I've been working on, and trying to get back in a routine of studying for the GRE.
Continuing my slog to complete a final work project and then put my workshop into stasis. Anxiety about world events has been problematic but I'm just putting a one foot in front of the other so I can, gas prices willing, disappear back into the desert.
Finally organizing my inventory of hardware
Updating/upgrading my automated FDM printer setup with some bed flexing automation
Running/climbing/biking/training
Intentionally leaving open space/time to do whatever I feel like I want to do next as it happens
Moving from LA to Portland. I have to pack up the rest of my junk and start driving up on Monday. It's been a huge pain in my ass the last couple months and I'm sure we'll need to do a lot more stuff when we're up there, but I'm glad we're getting into the back half of this process.
Portland! Assuming it doesn’t pour rain and knock them all down, stopping in Salem to see the Cherry Blossoms at the Capitol might be worth it. Not too far off of I-5. Have a safe trip! There’s some good scenery on the way!
catching up on a project that has a deadline on Tuesday second weekend in a row and catching up on some things from a new full-time job I started a week ago.
I need to disconnect during Easter for couple of days.
Working on an agent orchestration framework that is effectively a compiler for async code. No matter what I work on, I find a way to make it a compiler!
Praying to the hockey gods for Ottawa to squeeze into the playoffs… Also looking into self-hosting most of my static site projects on a Raspberry Pi Zero
I’m thinking about business development for my solo consultancy. It’s a very soft market right now and historically I’ve been able to keep busy by referrals alone.
2026 has turned out to be a different beast entirely. Small businesses and startups (that make up the majority of my clients) are bullish on AI right now and don’t think they need to hire consultants.
My feeling is that as technical debt and software complexity mounts, they will start hiring again. However I need to weather the storm.
I need to write up my blog carnival post. I have dallied all week and missed the hopefully-soft deadline. I'm not sure if I should write two posts; an on-topic post would talk about comparative linguistics, but I promised previously, on Lobsters, that I would submit a post about the community response to my recent vibecoding challenge.
Plan to distribute my indie game to friends and collect feedback for optimization and improvements.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4218330/WordJoy/
gonna try to setup backups on my "new" laptop install (...it's been like half a year). didn't wanna do time machine again so now i've got a subscription to jottacloud and will be trying to hook restic up to it with rclone (already managed to mount locally, so i know the rclone part works). and i want to keep proper track of what files i actually care about, so i don't need to worry i'm deleting something important when i might be clearing this install in the future. i still have my old 600GB install filling up my 1TB builtin disk, will see if i can get everything important out of there and delete it today
Head over to see the cherry blossoms in DC (with the expectation that it'll be absolutely packed). And then mess around with my Lua interpreter: I think I figured out a good way to implement Lazy Basic Block Versioning for bytecode operations, so going to try reimplementing my existing bytecode VM to use that instead and see what happens.