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!
Protesting against and overthrowing the corrupt government over here.
My $WORK task list keeps growing and I’m falling behind on everything but this is much more important right now. Party like it’s 2000 and we’re overthrowing Milošević.
See you later, folks, going back to the streets of Belgrade.
Godspeed.
Working, apparently.
You are not alone.
same, mouths to feed and all that
Fixing deploys and flakey tests on a client app, as I broke it last weekend and only noticed during an unrelated incident today. (Always the case, sigh.) Getting the itch to do more things in the homelab (like finish the half-baked migration to FreeBSD) and puppetise (OpenVoxify?) some more of it.
Also need to get the in-laws internet upgrade ordered now they have FTTC available, get them off the wet piece of ASDL that purports to be a connection.
Sunday is dinghy racing at the club, drysuit and thermals required. Brrr.
Applying for jobs in data science 🥲
Also finishing my manuscript on a new algorithm for data lean spectroscopy which I hope to publish in review of scientific instruments.
Joining Lobsters, apparently.
Also driving to Aberdeen so my wife can have a nice birthday spa and play skee-ball while I try to figure out how to be creative when all my skills are fixing things and threatening servers with actual malice.
Assuming that Storm Éowyn leaves any roads working between here and Aberdeen.
Oh hai!
Hello!
Éowyn did in fact leave most of the infrastructure just fine, that I saw, apart from one cable dangling off a building in Dundee.
Rather than figuring out how to do A Creative Thing, I just spent most of Monday sleeping and then played a game on my Steam Deck today while my wife collected just over 500 tickets playing skee-ball and brought home a small ugly mug. :D
Playing with the new deepseek-r1 llama, to see how it compares with qwen2.5. So far, it seems quite a bit slower and more willing to make stuff up (insistently, I might add). Job searching. Some leetcoding.
Probably going to finish a novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Might watch a David Lynch film like Inland Empire. But first, I’ll finish this coffee & lift some weights, now that my back’s feeling better.
Still too cold to work on pulling the dashboard out of my Toyota Celica, though progress seems promising. (:
Gawping at all the local destruction left by Storm Éowyn, probably. Thankfully so far I have escaped any serious damage, although a large (empty) terracotta plant-pot absconded its usual location and crashed into the side of my car. I haven’t been out to check how serious it is yet, hoping for no more than surface-level scratches low on the front passenger door…
Also practice guitar and prepare for my songwriting course on Monday.
Peer feedback and reviews for work ._.;
Tis the season’
On the weekend? I’d humbly suggest peer reviews for work should happen during weekday work hours.
Trying to finish extremely basic CPS -> LLVM SSA conversion for my scheme implementation before I start my new job on Monday. I’m hoping I can have something at least sorta working by Sunday
Going to try to write a VM for tisc machine code. The only implementation is Logisim, and I realize this may be a huge limitation. My far-out goal is to get a test suite for validating a variety of implementations… one day I’ll use it to write some HDL to do this as well.
Looking for job opportunities in Ireland. Feeling pretty excited about a potentially better job market over there compared to where I am now.
Where are you now?
Finland
Is the Finnish economy particularly bad right now?
It’s stagnating, and salaries are very low compared to the cost of living. Taxes are rising, including the sales tax (VAT), which was one of the highest in Europe to begin with (24%), now 25.5%. Salaries in software engineering are lower than in Western Europe, but the biggest problem IMO is that there aren’t enough good jobs. Most job openings are in endless consultancy firms. Very little product development, startups and innovation in the past decade. And I can’t see any chances of the situation improving in the near future.
Many professionals I know have left Finland or seriously considering to move away.
I think almost everywhere has a little bit of that and getting worse. (Of course places can be better in absolute terms).
Flying to San Francisco and writing about AI tools that could enable crew but actually end up replacing it. Also more futile battles against AI scraper bots.
You could make everyone run a marathon if you gave them a moped.
Hopefully wiring up some serial cables for my DEC Professional 380.
I was thinking about how embeddings are really cool, so to dip my toes I built a Next.js + pgvector project for semantically searching a list of movies. It’s very basic but a good start overall. Devenv also helped me a lot!
tried to make filled chocolate. went quite ok. even got them to be a bit glossy.
How did you temper the chocolate? IMO the best way (if you don’t have a tempering machine) is to use an electric hand mixer.
I have a tiny machine, that I believe might count as a tempering machine? It’s just a small heated bowl with a temperature controller.
To temper, I followed the curve diagram on the package of the pellets. Went with white chocolate and threw a frozen berry mix in the blender as a filling. The “dome” is super glossy but I didn’t get the seal to be shiny. Don’t think the pralines would survive outside of the fridge though.
Yep, that’s probably a tempering machine :)
To get the seal to be shiny I usually do a second tempering round, followed by heating the edge of the shell with a hair drier. It’s a lot more work, but it lets me make the shells separate from the filling and the seal.
If you want the pralines to be shelf stable, you could try mixing the berry mix with some melted white chocolate. Or use a chocolate and cream mixture and make it a full ganache
(I also just made chocolate this weekend, though I was just trying to use up an old matcha ganache I had in the fridge. Chocolatiering is so much fun!)
Gnawing on The Last Project Migration for work and then hopefully kicking the dust of Atlassian from my feet forever.
Likely playing Caves of Qud more. So far I’m not too thrilled about the build decisions I made for this character, but I almost have enough cybernetic DRM tokens to let me replace my legs with tank treads and install more pistols on my pistols, so we’ll see if that’s as fulfilling as it sounds.
Hanging out with friends and playing the Gloomhaven expansion, unless someone gets sick again.
Treads are 100% worth it, you can kite almost everything with them.
Writing a whole lotta documentation for the upcoming v2.0 of Bridgetown (it’s a Ruby web framework). We’re basically at feature freeze, but there’s quite a lot that needs polishing on the docs side and as anyone who works on OSS knows, that’s often the hardest part!
Trying global game jam