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!
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 finally got the split keyboard all set up. Got the replacement microcontroller in the mail this morning and then spent the lunch break soldering it to the right half of the keyboard (with socketed pin headers this time). I was very glad to discover that the PCB came out of this ordeal completely unscathed! So I guess I’ll spend this saturday relearning how to type and customizing my layout :)
Have a picture. (Keycap location for the right half is a WIP and does not represent the final look of the keyboard.)
Super nice keyboard and overall aesthethic. I have a split 40% as part of my quiver of keyboards.
Hopefully: sleeping and not doing much
Normally I do a lot of programming, but recently I’ve been branching out — even within projects that are programming-centric.
Last weekend I participated in my first Ludum Dare game jam… as a voice actor!
This weekend I’ll design a second cursor for the ravynOS project, by writing a small script in Varyx (my language) using its experimental binding for Core Graphics. (Previously I did the standard arrow cursor, which required brushing up on trigonometry and a long-forgotten line-intersection formula, but this one is just 45-degree angles.) Technically I’ll be writing lines of code, but I’m really just defining some polygons.
All other programming will have to wait, though, as I have a week and a half to learn thirteen pieces of music for the upcoming NieR:Orchestra concert in which I’ll be singing.
voice acting sounds interesting, what was the game?
I actually don’t know the name. :-P But I play a frog who’s initially skeptical that a bipedal fish (the PC) would really eat fruitflies.
I assume it makes sense in context. :-)
That is indeed my first line. :-)
Update: It’s called “Ponding Experience”. :-D
https://daring-owl-studios.itch.io/ponding-experience-bugfix
The latest is https://daring-owl-studios.itch.io/ponding-experience-post-jam, which I’m told has bugfixes ongoing.
When I tried a few days ago, I couldn’t complete my own quest. :-(
I’m heading to Manchester for OggCamp (nothing to do with the audio format) - an open-source, open-culture unconference. This is the first time it’s run since before “The Event” in 2020. Looking forward to some interesting (and nerdy) talks, and meeting up with friends I’ve not seen for a while.
Oggcamp’s been great so far this year, will hopefully get a chance to say hey today 👋🏽
Ah, dang that lineup looks interesting.
I’ve written up my experience of the talks if you were interested - shame you missed out, it was good!
Having cast about for a project for some time, I’ve started a little compiler and interpreter. Also, Silent Hill 2 remake is exceptional.
Probably going to take a stab at inter-task linking for my CLI todo app. I got fed up with slow browser-based apps and figured I write fairly simple file-based manager that had the features I wanted in a few weekends.
I like where you’re headed with that app.
Thank you! Feedback and ideas welcome!
There’s a release coming up at work, so I’ve spent all my time this week hunting down bugs.
I’m spent, and I’ll probably use the weekend playing games. I recently finished Undertale (why didn’t I know about this game earlier?!), next on my stack are Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds.
For the last few months I’ve tried to come up with some non-digital hobby activity - unfortunately, for better and worse, I seem to be unable to come up with anything that I actually enjoy much.
Currently reading: Travis Baldree’s “Legends & Lattes”. I kinda need something light-hearted at the moment.
Outer Wilds is the best game I can never play, the idea, gameplay, execution… everything is fantastic. So good that I get a deep feeling of anxiety of being in the emptiness of space as a frail creature
I see tons of praise heaped upon Outer Wilds, but I got annoyed with its finicky 3D platforming. Unfortunately, I never finished the game, so I don’t know if precise jumps, etc. are actually required.
For anyone who completed the game: how much platforming is actually required? :)
What did you try?
In the past couple of years: Drawing, writing short stories, card magic, recreational woodworking and playing bass guitar.
I find making pixel art more enjoyable than drawing with pencil or ink, I have a very hard time stringing together non-terrible linear narratives, and while I used to play bass all the time, I’ve sort of lost the motivation for it over the years. (It doesn’t help that I have a nerve injury that has reduced sensitivity in some of my right-hand fingers - my manual dexterity isn’t what it used to be.)
I won’t give advice but that’s an impressively wide range of activities!
For hobbies what works for me is: bouldering, road cycling, reading, going to the cinema/theater/opera (and that’s already more than enough for me)
For some reason I don’t count reading as a hobby, otherwise that’d take the top spot. I always carry a book for my bus rides to and from work, and always read a bit in the evening before going to sleep.
I think it kinda depends on what you read and what you do with it.
I read lots of computer books, literature, non-fiction that very few other people I know have read, study books and manga in Japanese, papers from different disciplines, work myself through books on category theory. It’s not really one hobby but feeds into a bunch of them.
I think it kinda depends on what you read and what you do with it.
I read lots of computer books, literature, non-fiction that very few other people I know have read, study books and manga in Japanese, papers from different disciplines, work myself through books on category theory. It’s not really one hobby but feeds into a bunch of them.
Now that I got my side project deployed on a Hetzner tiny box, I may be working on it a bunch more. It’s nice to finally have it out there.
I annoyed myself a bunch about deployment and thought about containers or Kamal but end of the day the only thing that’s happening is:
cargo build --release, copy the binary to the server and restart the service. That can be very easily done on Github Actions.Extremely devops liberating also here to just do everything as
root. No permissions nonsense, nosudo, no creating this or that user.Also this weekend the kids are going to do their first run and I may be able to take the road bike out for the first time in weeks after I sprained my ankle.
I am reading through the 5-part blog posts of Eli Bendersky related to the Raft distributed consensus algorithm.
I like his writing style, it’s very understandable.
https://visual.ofcoder.com/raft/ is a lovely saunter (no code, just the algorithm/processes)
This is a very nice graphical representation. Thank you very much! PS: I didn’t come that far with the 5-part series, still 3 to go :)
I got it into my head to make half of the guest bedroom into a pocket video studio for talking head, voiceover, and chromakey shots so I’ll probably take time away from my vigorous laying about schedule to continue installing lights and a backdrop frame.
Working on re-implementing TAPL’s type checkers in Rust so that I actually understand them. Possibly planning for moving. Sleeping a lot and waiting for my face covered in poison ivy to heal. (It’s fine, barely itches if I don’t touch it and I have some medication for it.)
I’ll have to review a couple work PRs, hopefully doesn’t take much time. Tomorrow there will be a “FlossPArking” at a nearby coffee shop, it’s that time of the year when I try to spend more time with communities like Floss Panama. I also bought a new domain, set up a mail server, and will likely figure out with other services to “share”. Priority #1: try and stop all of this by Sunday noon and get some rest.
Cleaning up my various side projects, and doing a little bit of shopping. Gotta enjoy the fall weather!