What are you doing this weekend?
11 points by caius
11 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!
Hi! A good post to leave my very first comment on. :)
Your first item looks interesting! At least original. Did you already publish something around that?
I've posted work in progress on Mastodon. I will put up the finished product somewhere when done, getting close now (86/126 pages). Guess I'll need to make a website or something...
If I can herd my f@#$s long enough, I'm going to use a 3-day weekend to do a plaster skim coat and a final coat on a new dry bar. I got quotes anywhere from $3,500 to $5,000 to do what my normal contractor—booked for months on big job—said is basically a two-day job at most if he was doing it.
People really don't like to do plaster work anymore. Almost everybody I've asked has told me this. One person told me that they would rather do demo, put in all new drywall, and finish it because they feel like they could do that faster and cheaper. I literally need maybe 1/16th inch skim layer to hide divots and a generally rough surface as a result of removing ancient wallpaper that was adhered too well.
If that herding job doesn't go well, then maybe I'll work a little more on the Rust actix-web app I'm working on. I've been working in data pipelines for so many years now that I realized some of my web dev tech knowledge and skills are a bit out date so I'm reimplementing something originally done in Rails almost 10 years ago.
Edit, 2 hrs in: We did surface prep and were advised to prime first then skim coat for better adhesion given some exposed gypsum. So that's drying now while I go get more plaster, because we def. don't have enough.
Finally implementing sound support in EndBASIC. I just got basic beeping to work, so the rest is "just a SMOP".
And trying to finish a blog post answering the "Is anyone still using Emacs?" meme question from the orange site that popped up two days ago in that Emacs 31 article
Cycling, swimming and enjoying some thunderstorms (hopefully not at the same time).
Oranje is playing as is Germany which could add to the general merriment. The weather is balmy so being out on the streets is going to be where it's at.
Hiking and strength training, watching a couple World Cup games, maybe a stop at IKEA for some odds and ends. I have two tower climb races in one week coming up in September, and my fitness is not quite where I'd like it to be yet.
Enjoying the summer weather and going through my massive heap of unread bookmarks and see if there is anything interesting in there, tagging them up and putting papers and books into Zotero. Tangentially related to that is that I want to make a directory of useful web resources, I have more than enough already so it's not essential for that. but it's always fun to find something new.
In Slay the Spire I have finally conquered A10 with all characters. Just in time for the new patch to drop, I like that they already fixed the correlated RNG that was found this week and them giving due credit to the blogger. My favorite A10 win was a blurricade run by the Silent, which was notable in that it didn't really do anything overpowered except having way too many blurs.
It's about two months out, so a bit early, but I'm going to finish the first pass on my conference talk on Ada at Carolina Code Conference. I've never given a live talk before, so I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm at least going to have a good time.
I'm fixing up my library for using the RideWithGPS.com web API. I wrote it and never really used it, and now that I actually want to use it I've found that it no longer works :-/ First I'm reworking the authentication to use OAuth. Once I get it into a workings state I have some ideas for visualizing and graphing data about rides that I want to try out.
And I'm hoping to get a long, climby bike ride in.