Beekeeping course and bread baking on Saturday and counting votes in the European election on Sunday.

I’ll be working tonight or tomorrow on a Stripe -> Gitlab bridge so that when someone donates to the Code & Supply Scholarship Fund (shameless plug: we need $40k to fund 100 conference scholarships this year, donate plz), their donation is automatically added to our ledger-based accounting system, a new merge request is added, and that MR is merged automatically if a build succeeds.

If it’s going to be a nice weather weekend, I foresee some bike rides or walks with the hundoj (dogs, your daily dose of Esperanto).

Other than spending time with friends and family, I’ll be continuing work on my web-based, casual, multiplayer game. I think it’s finally stable enough to post the alpha link here (https://alpha.sneakysnake.io), in case anyone wants to check it out. If you run into any game-breaking bugs, please let me know! General feedback is also welcome, as long is it’s constructive!

Now that my son is feeling better after six days of being sick, I’m hoping to get a lot of time outside with the family.

I have two toilets I need to install. We had two leaking and decided to replace three. One is done and was far easier than I thought it would have been, but maybe the last two will prove that statement wrong.

I’ll also continue reading The Rust Book and should finish it.

Tonight is a drink-wine-and-probably-order-in night with the girlfriend. Farmer’s market tomorrow to get all the requirements for a tasty meal. Finally, off to a nearby city to celebrate babushka’s birthday.

I rescued a bird with a broken wing from a storm drain this morning, so that’s my good deed done. Girlfriend’s parents are driving over from Russia to visit us, which I’m very much looking forward to. The weather is good, so I think we’ll have wine and a barbecue in my garden. Catching up on work on all three of my startups before they arrive so I can spend the rest of my time relaxing.

Oh also, my new monitor stand arrived. I’m pretty happy with it. It’s an ART L-01.

Thinking of writing more documentation for janetsh.

More job hunting. Trying not to be picky but haven’t had to look for a job in almost 8 years so not even sure what I’m doing. I think because I’ve never specialised in one specific thing, I’m good at a variety of contexts and languages, I feel like I’m ending up not being quite right for the jobs I’ve applied to so far because I haven’t spent years in one specific framework or language.

May have to start applying for non programming jobs so that I can keep putting food on the table.

Hanging out with family, and also teaching myself some darwin systems programming. Trying to clone htop :)

Have 12 rolls of film to develop since Easter vacation, hope to get to that. Also, replace part of the street facing fence, if I can muster willpower for that.

There’s a large lindy hop/swing dancing event (classes, competitions, live music and dancing) in Seattle this weekend called Camp Jitterbug. I’ll busy the whole weekend working on personal projects during the day and dancing at night.

I planned to learn the basics / essentials of awk, but life had different plans and I need to fix some production impairing db issues. But maybe there is time on Sunday, anybody has some good resources to look into?

Now that the Peergos alpha is released I can chillax a bit. That means gardening and enjoying the sunshine mainly.

Probably attempting to run $hackerspace and maybe playing with Vulkan-y stuff in Rust. Monday is a holiday in the US though so I might use it to just take a long bike ride on some local trails. The weather is lovely and its been a while since I did that.

I’ll try to finish my implementation for the Jack compiler in Common Lisp. The syntax analysis is fine, but now I need to take my generated XML files and compare them with the book ones. Too good I won’t need XML for the semantic step.

• visit family in Long Beach
• Rest

I discovered the insane power of filters and macros in Tiddlywiki. Moving stuff over from my poorly synced org mode directory over to a self hosted tiddlywiki on my VPS.

I wonder what took me so long. The last several times I used tiddlywiki pretty like a set of pages that linked to other pages. I am planning to write some articles or a ebook about what one is missing when they think of tiddlywiki as a simple personal wiki. The only equivalent I can think of is a vanilla emacs setup to what a power user can make emacs do.

Continuing my work on my mission to document and provide implemmentation and compare alternative text-input methods. Next text entry up for discussion: morse code!

You’ll find that morse code have some interesting properties that can be useful for implementing the text entry format for the future. Perhaps not practical for every day use, (even though I’ll do a brave/foolish stab at making that happen.) but very interesting as a yarrdstick and as a basis for discussion. Think how more common letters have shorter words than less common and so forth, which is a form of compression.

I have a draft up on github. This is ATM no more than a brain dump so no sources conclusions as of yet. This will be accompanied by a blog post and will be updated with some interesting datapoints. https://github.com/TBF-RnD/alpha/blob/master/Ch_1.3_Morse.md

What is more interesting for the general public than rehashing of things that everybody knows is that I have an idea for making an assisted morse code demo with close to 0 learning curve.

Implementing this would require some form of PPM analogy. That would be used to predict incomming characters. I am not aiming for theoretical purity here but rather something that just works (tm).

Kids to gymnastics/parkour. Home soccer practice for youngest, then team soccer game tomorrow. Cookout with family. Writing practice (mixed cases) for youngest.

Lawn maintenance and maybe some continued demolition for the bathroom project.

Sync environment settings across personal machines. Travel for on-site week at job. Try to get a D&D or board game session in with kids before trip.

Starting a project to cut down two rather large trees next to my house. It will involve lots of gear: line, anchors, straps, hand-winches, power saws, and so forth.

I am completely unqualified for this. That’s why I’m doing it.

Going out to see a lecture on hacking. Not the technical kind - the political analysis of who the “russian hackers” are and how are they connected to russian government. I also hope to meet a couple of friends on art & craft festival which is happening right next to my house, and go see Detective Pikachu.

I also have one song that I have to prepare for a studio session with a vocalist next week, and two more tracks that we already recorded that I need to send out for mixing. Also, write a full track out of a loop that my vocalist liked, and then adapt song lyrics for yet another one. If we continue moving with this pace, we’ll end up with a complete EP by the end of June.

And finally, I have this telegram bot project that I started to learn Haskell for. I had to go through several libraries (one dependent on another) to implement socks5 authentication and still wait for my PRs to get approved. Now I can finally get to implementing the functionality - and I just thought of a neat way to use monads to code up asynchronous dialogs, where each user’s reply will be received as a different HTTP request without any persistence except for the data in database. Can’t wait to finally write some code in Haskell that I wouldn’t be able to in any other language!

Possibly tackling a clump of bamboo… and by tackling… I mean trying to remove.

Setting up a streisand server and teaching my parents how to connect to it amid the government block of access to social network & messaging apps.

No work. At all! Just chilling out with the family. I say this because I’ve seen other post this kind of response and it has encouraged me to do the same. So, reminder, of course sometimes you have to work outside office hours. But what you are really working for is your family/fellow humans. Take time with them!

I’m trying to port the reply notification and the read ribbons from lobste.rs to gambe.ro. Probably this happened after lobste.rs moved to Rails 5 and our fork was still with Rails 4 and so there are weird error that might be related. In all of this I don’t know any Ruby or Rails, so there’s a lot of guesswork involved. Protip: never commit to projects involving existing codebases you cannot read.

Days 4 and 5 of #100daysofcode, and maybe if I have time continue to polish the Pomodoro timer I’m finishing today because I actually have a use for such a thing (CLI based, ultra simple, cross platform, stores results in ASCII, and maybe eventually pushes the results up to S3 so I can share them across machines.)

We have to go to a party on Saturday and also have a concert to go to, so probably a lot of time will be spent on those to ‘tasks’. I also did some gardening this week and still have a lot more to do, so it might be something I end up doing tomorrow before noon.

I’m also doing some more terraform and ansible, together with some thinking about a project at work.

If (and I doubt it) I have some time left I’m going to spend it on my motorcycle. It’s a Honda cbf125 and I’m trying to do some basic maintenance myself.

• Youth squad at the sailing club, might get my own boat out and sail whilst the kids are happy/learning with the rest of the squad. (There’s a safety boat on the water, it would be rude not to partake… right?)
• Given I have two cycle rides of 70-85 miles coming up in the next fortnight, servicing, tuning and shaking down my bike is almost a given.
• Doing some gardening, having been away for the best part of a fortnight the garden has really taken off with the spring growth. Not sure I can cut the hedge yet, we still seem to have some birds nesting, but mowing the grass is probably the absolute minimum I need to do.

• Took the kids to the fortnightly Youth Squad at the sailing club for most of the day. Great fun, got to bimble round in a Laser 2k for some of it myself too. Also compared all my sails for the Flying Fifteen and rigged a new[er] set than I previously had. (1978 -> 1981!)
• Did some bike maintenance, re-taped handlebars, tuned the gears, swapped the sodding front/rear brake levers over because apparently the USA is backwards (or the UK is, but that’s what I consider normal 😜)
• Got a couple of long biking events coming up over the next couple of weekends, so very definitely need a shakedown ride. Thinking somewhere in the 40-50 mile region.
• Garden is turning into a meadow, so will need to run the mower round at least some of it.