Do you have any interesting plans for the weekend that are different from the day to day grind?
Weekend trips, meetups,side projects, or anything interesting?
Do you have any interesting plans for the weekend that are different from the day to day grind?
Weekend trips, meetups,side projects, or anything interesting?
This weekend I’m preparing a blogpost about new go-linter(and also adding few additional linters as-well). Basically my friends and me going to create an easy linter-sandbox for the community. We’ve made almost 20 linters atm and going to add few more.
(Ha, nice. I’ve wondered about doing these previously but wondered if it would be too granular given the weekly what-are-you-doing threads technically cover the weekend. Nice to see someone else had the thought—and tested the theory out. ✌🏻)
I picked up a secondhand gas BBQ tonight, and have cleaned it so we will have to fire that up Saturday evening to give it a test run. Also got a friend (& future colleague) coming to stay for the weekend, his one request is I take him sailing so that’s pretty much our plan once he arrives tomorrow.
I might see if I can flush and refill my car’s manual transmission fluid at some point too. Had a lovely big syringe and hideously expensive oil turn up in the post today.
I really enjoy the weekly threads, but most people seem to focus on work tasks and such. I wasn’t sure if this thread would get much love or hate, but it’s a decent test I suppose :)
Went to the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), and saw some works of art that are on loan from MoMA in New York. Was very inspiring!
Gonna do some more messing around on Pikelet. Trying to look at implicit arguments, and rework how I do variable binding. As you may notice I created an organisation for it last week!
Backtesting momentum-based investment strategies to verify assertions that there are low touch, downside risk reducing strategies that I can easily implement. I mean things as simple as ‘spread investment across 5 uncorrelated ETF’s, check once a month, sell when below 200 MA, buy when above 200 MA’. If that nets me 5% a year as a long term average, I’d implement it in a heartbeat.
My wife went to a thing called Rock Fest yesterday, to see Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, and Rancid. I took the opportunity to figure out what the whole fuss is about this Fortnite thing I keep hearing about. Turns out you can install it on the Nintendo Switch, so I tried that out, and it turns out I suck massively. It’s kinda fun, in a way, but it’s not my usual cup of tea at all.
I’ve also been supposed to do something with an old computer someone handed down to me; I’m going to add it to my roster of machines in my workshop, probably using it to host a Gitea instance, and some other stuff. Firmware on the BIOS is a bit dated, it won’t take a regular USB stick to boot up, would only accept USB-FDD, which I do not own. So I had to dig up a CD-R that was not already written on and I may be on my way to glory.
I otherwise intend to play a bit of Minecraft with my son, he wants us to do some building challenge or other. I’d also like to finish setting up my kids’ (hand-me-down) laptops and start teaching them how to use them. Anyone knows of good open-source type-teaching software?
I think Fortnite was what two coworkers were talking about last night. One said he felt accomplished getting 5 or 6 kills in a game. You might not suck as bad as you think: seems inherently more difficult than some games to get kills.
Organising my Morris dance team’s cyclobooze, which is a 30-ish mile ride with pub stops.
Trying out Molly dancing tomorrow, which involves a five-hour round trip. So I’ve also racked up a few audio books for the journey.
Let me guess, all the pubs are on a CAMRA list?
we’ve embraced diversity and even have some cider drinkers now!
I have some sleep to catch up, and some garden work maybe. Computer stuff will hopefully include investing some more time in automation/devops things. I also want to start blogging again.
I’ve bought some nice beer, and I’m looking forward to drinking it when everybody is asleep in the house. I can use some silent me-time after a stressful week…
Which beer?
I bought Orval and Gouden Carolus Cuvée van de Keizer. I’m not sure if they are well known outside of Belgium but I like both of them.
I’ve had Orval, but not the Cuvée van de Keizer. Enjoy!
Probably, I will do some climbing and cycling. I might repot a plant. And I will try to soak up some much needed sun.
I’m going to try out the beta for Pulumi (a local startup).
We’re halfway though the weekend, I’ve spent Saturday helping my stepson move some stuff out of the apartment he’s subletting while he’s in Australia for 6 months.
Oh, I wish I’d seen this thread three days ago. On Saturday, my wife and I celebrated the second anniversary of our wedding. Just a little back yard party but, multiple people said that it was really fun! (Emphasis theirs.) You may be surprised to learn that it was our fourth annual wedding-related party in that very same spot and time of year. You see, we had a long engagement, so we threw a “Negative First Anniversary party”, and the wedding party itself (The Zeroth Anniversary) took place there, too. By now, there are people who we didn’t know then in attendance… :) Word on the street is that the 7th wedding party (2021) will be held near Cancun, instead of the back yard…