I'm organizing a programmer meetup, Chilean style, in Santiago. We are going to have a nice barbecue outdoors (it's summer here!) and I'm expecting about 30 attendees. Looking forward to it :)
I wrote up a list of all the projects I started this year and turns out I started almost exactly one every month. Didn't finish any of them. For the rest of the year, I am going to focus on polishing and shipping all the ones I still find interesting.
Starting with emmer (a Wayland notification daemon, inspired by Sonner).
So far I'm having a blast. I played from Classic to WotLK and then I dabbled in the other expansions. Forever feels like Classic but with a lot of QoL improvements. It's slow, large and a great excuse to be unproductive (after the last months have given me productivity anxiety).
Going back to tanking dead mines with randoms has been a great experience.
As my work has continued to push LLMs on me (and my promotion has not materialized nor disappeared yet) I am going to write an MCP server for Citrix. My replacement will surely make use of LLMs and it would be nice if I could simply tell them to point their agents at an MCP server to get good diagnostics / other information.
Celebrating another revolution of the sun completed. New toys include a new waterproof coat, (new old stock), Wayfarer mk2 sailing dinghy (secondhand but ready to go) and iPad mini (new, so thin! Nano-texture!)
Off to see a live show of the Smith n Sniff podcast, and hopefully getting the Z4 back from having an exhaust blow cut out and new pipes welded in, in time for a trackday at Donnington Park on Friday. Not done a trackday before (taking the Focus estate round the Nurburgring excepted) and quite looking forward to it, but also somewhat nervous.
I've been writing and editing documentation for the GoActivityPub library. If anyone has 10m to kill and read through it, I'd appreciate some feedback (and owe you one <3).
Got some miniPCIe LTE modems that my workplace was throwing out, so I'm waiting on a SIM card (on a cheap 19 DKK/month PAYG plan) and USB adapter to arrive. First task is to figure out which of them still work, and after that I'm not sure. I don't have anything that urgently needs cellular connectivity.
I'm also going to be moving my home network back to my own router (a N100 or N150—I can't remember—mini PC with 2 NICs and 4 ethernet ports running OpenBSD). After my recent move, it was easier to just use the ISP router until I had some time to clear the space I need under the stairs. I still don't have ethernet everywhere, but my wifi mesh is good enough for most things.
I have another project turning my Marantz PM6005 amplifier into a smart speaker, using an ESP32, a tinkerboard, raspotify, and home assistant. At the moment it communicates over IR, but I plan to hook the ESP32 up to the remote control RCA jack at the rear so it doesn't need line of sight any more (right now the biggest blocker is a literal one, a spanish galgo that likes to stand right between the ESP32 and the IR receiver). I'm not sure whether I'll bother with much of a write up for this, the tinkerboard, raspotify and home assistant stuff is fairly standard, and the ESP32 firmware is mostly vibecoded, so not that interesting to read about. I know many here are skeptical and highly critical of LLMs, but I've been finding them more and more useful. As someone who has struggled with executive function all my life, they've actually allowed me to get projects done that I would have in the past indefinitely postponed.
Found an index optimization few days ago that largely eliminates pointer chasing, so I've been updating the buffer pool with io_uring to make use of that. Getting io_uring to actually deliver the performance that Patterson, Gimlin et al. suggests is pretty hard in real world scenarios where IOPS go brr is not the only outcome you're looking for.
Next is actually adjusting the index to make use of the async fetching capabilities.
I moved one of my internal tools for my company to emacs/elisp. I live in emacs so it makes sense to replace some webapps only used by me with buffers and completing-read
This week I'm polishing CabFuse, a small utility I built to bring tabs to Windows 10 File Explorer.
I originally started it to solve some everyday annoyances with File Explorer, and I've been using it myself ever since. It's been especially rewarding to see other people finding it useful too.
Pursuantly, I'll be generalising my implementation of fibers into one of effects after a lightbulb moment. Fibers share a storage location for the yield target, but if you make that a parameter, you get effects. So it's analogous to a labeled break. I think that's how effects are supposed to work? Seems to be similar to how OCaml does it anyway. Also simultaneously halfway through rewriting the parser (said Sisyphus).
wofo | 4 hours ago
I'm organizing a programmer meetup, Chilean style, in Santiago. We are going to have a nice barbecue outdoors (it's summer here!) and I'm expecting about 30 attendees. Looking forward to it :)
ksdme | 3 hours ago
I wrote up a list of all the projects I started this year and turns out I started almost exactly one every month. Didn't finish any of them. For the rest of the year, I am going to focus on polishing and shipping all the ones I still find interesting.
Starting with emmer (a Wayland notification daemon, inspired by Sonner).
marcecoll | 6 hours ago
wofo | 3 hours ago
How is WoW? I haven't played in a very long time (and I'm hesitant to try again, I need to protect myself lol).
marcecoll | 2 hours ago
So far I'm having a blast. I played from Classic to WotLK and then I dabbled in the other expansions. Forever feels like Classic but with a lot of QoL improvements. It's slow, large and a great excuse to be unproductive (after the last months have given me productivity anxiety).
Going back to tanking dead mines with randoms has been a great experience.
andypiper | 2 hours ago
Dinner with a friend on Wednesday. Going to Cambridge for the Retro Computer Festival 2026 at the Centre for Computing History on Saturday & Sunday.
regulator | 2 hours ago
As my work has continued to push LLMs on me (and my promotion has not materialized nor disappeared yet) I am going to write an MCP server for Citrix. My replacement will surely make use of LLMs and it would be nice if I could simply tell them to point their agents at an MCP server to get good diagnostics / other information.
[OP] caius | an hour ago
Celebrating another revolution of the sun completed. New toys include a new waterproof coat, (new old stock), Wayfarer mk2 sailing dinghy (secondhand but ready to go) and iPad mini (new, so thin! Nano-texture!)
Off to see a live show of the Smith n Sniff podcast, and hopefully getting the Z4 back from having an exhaust blow cut out and new pipes welded in, in time for a trackday at Donnington Park on Friday. Not done a trackday before (taking the Focus estate round the Nurburgring excepted) and quite looking forward to it, but also somewhat nervous.
regulator | 27 minutes ago
Happy birthday!!
mariusor | 5 hours ago
I've been writing and editing documentation for the GoActivityPub library. If anyone has 10m to kill and read through it, I'd appreciate some feedback (and owe you one <3).
invlpg | 4 hours ago
Got some miniPCIe LTE modems that my workplace was throwing out, so I'm waiting on a SIM card (on a cheap 19 DKK/month PAYG plan) and USB adapter to arrive. First task is to figure out which of them still work, and after that I'm not sure. I don't have anything that urgently needs cellular connectivity.
I'm also going to be moving my home network back to my own router (a N100 or N150—I can't remember—mini PC with 2 NICs and 4 ethernet ports running OpenBSD). After my recent move, it was easier to just use the ISP router until I had some time to clear the space I need under the stairs. I still don't have ethernet everywhere, but my wifi mesh is good enough for most things.
I have another project turning my Marantz PM6005 amplifier into a smart speaker, using an ESP32, a tinkerboard, raspotify, and home assistant. At the moment it communicates over IR, but I plan to hook the ESP32 up to the remote control RCA jack at the rear so it doesn't need line of sight any more (right now the biggest blocker is a literal one, a spanish galgo that likes to stand right between the ESP32 and the IR receiver). I'm not sure whether I'll bother with much of a write up for this, the tinkerboard, raspotify and home assistant stuff is fairly standard, and the ESP32 firmware is mostly vibecoded, so not that interesting to read about. I know many here are skeptical and highly critical of LLMs, but I've been finding them more and more useful. As someone who has struggled with executive function all my life, they've actually allowed me to get projects done that I would have in the past indefinitely postponed.
marginalia | 4 hours ago
Found an index optimization few days ago that largely eliminates pointer chasing, so I've been updating the buffer pool with io_uring to make use of that. Getting io_uring to actually deliver the performance that Patterson, Gimlin et al. suggests is pretty hard in real world scenarios where IOPS go brr is not the only outcome you're looking for.
Next is actually adjusting the index to make use of the async fetching capabilities.
kevinizee | 3 hours ago
I moved one of my internal tools for my company to emacs/elisp. I live in emacs so it makes sense to replace some webapps only used by me with buffers and completing-read
janschutte | 3 hours ago
Looking for engineering jobs in Amsterdam area, and maybe spend some time to polish my application launcher.
mond | 14 minutes ago
Inkhaven.
yiyu | 6 hours ago
This week I'm polishing CabFuse, a small utility I built to bring tabs to Windows 10 File Explorer.
I originally started it to solve some everyday annoyances with File Explorer, and I've been using it myself ever since. It's been especially rewarding to see other people finding it useful too.
tentacloids | 5 hours ago
Pursuantly, I'll be generalising my implementation of fibers into one of effects after a lightbulb moment. Fibers share a storage location for the yield target, but if you make that a parameter, you get effects. So it's analogous to a labeled
break. I think that's how effects are supposed to work? Seems to be similar to how OCaml does it anyway. Also simultaneously halfway through rewriting the parser (said Sisyphus).