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:
get used to it, and desensitised; focus on things that do not anguish you
challenge it; this implies doing politics. Most people think it's more hopeless than it is: small but disciplined and persistent political organisations can achieve their goals more effectively than big movements like Black Lives Matter and No Kings
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.
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.
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.
Taking my older kid to rent a tux for a school dance
Family is taking me to my favorite sushi restaurant for dinner for my birthday
Hobby:
I might be able to get my little language-learning app up for a closed alpha (DM me if you want an invite if and when I finally get the thing out on something other than my laptop)
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/
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 :)
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.
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:
some weekend work - don't love that, but as I've alluded to in previous posts, it's been made very clear that my position is tenuous, so I'd like to get somewhat ahead
playing Factorio. I hope this isn't too naive, but I think I'm within spitting distance of "completing" Space Age? I have Aquilo pretty well set up and have railguns researched and constructed - it seems like sending a ship to Aquilo to get kitted out with Railguns should be the penultimate step. Here's hoping that two railguns is sufficent to get me to the Edge...
mtset | 12 hours ago
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.
ahelwer | 8 hours ago
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.
mtset | 6 hours ago
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.)
Kratacoa | 7 hours ago
If you feel powerless, there are two ways to get relief:
mtset | 6 hours ago
Edit: removed depressed blathering. Sorry.
alper | 12 hours ago
Solo parenting the kids while one of them has a sports tournament. Now I get how a car could be useful.
Help from other parents is already forthcoming.
rustybolt | 6 hours ago
As a parent of a two-year-old (with A LOT of energy) I salute you.
LenFalken | 12 hours ago
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.
tfxir | 12 hours ago
Check out Grim Dawn. It's my next fav arpg after d2r.
alper | 4 hours ago
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.
deprov447 | 9 hours ago
fleebee | 4 hours ago
I'll probably drink a few beers and listen to Michael Schenker Group's 80s stuff.
matheusmoreira | 8 hours ago
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.
mysticmode | 12 hours ago
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.
kej | 7 hours ago
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.
stilic | 9 hours ago
I have a few parties :D
jlarocco | 7 hours ago
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.
k749gtnc9l3w | 5 hours ago
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.
rustybolt | 6 hours ago
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.
Sorbee | 4 hours ago
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.
davidg | 3 hours ago
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.
lorddimwit | 3 hours ago
Family:
Hobby:
toastal | 2 hours ago
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).
yiyu | 12 hours ago
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/
tfxir | 12 hours ago
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 :)
travisgriggs | 10 hours ago
Volunteer cleaning a building, demoing a bathroom, yard work at mother in laws.
kevinc | 9 hours ago
Spouse bartered for a Switch; time to play the classics together.
JaDogg | 6 hours ago
What are you playing ?
kevinc | an hour ago
They have a bunch of first party emulated things. The natural starting point was NES Mario.
junon | 7 hours ago
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.
JaDogg | 6 hours ago
Time with baby.
Yakshaving midi controller and sequencer app instead of learning or making music 😄.
msfjarvis | 6 hours ago
Attending RustIndia! Excited to hear from Niko Matsakis and meet up with a few friends I haven't seen in a while.
scubbo | 2 hours ago
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:
Sorbee | an hour ago
Drifting with an automobile?