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Travel prep.
During a very long and fun architecture discussion between myself, the
CTO, and one of our Brazil devs, I made an offhand comment to the CTO
in a DM how much nicer it would be to just get us all in front of a
whiteboard for a week.
2h later he was asking us to book flights to Mexico City so we could
meet up at a hotel with whiteboards and figure everything out for a
week.
Wild fuckin’ ride, guys.

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Whiteboarding and coding for a week with an unlimited supply of CDMX
tacos… The dream.

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I'm hoping to find the time to sit down and finally go through
ziglings.
I've been feeling like many of the newer languages coming out either
have meh communities or feel too much like work, so I've felt like I
don't really have something fun to program in when I want to do stuff
casually. I watched the JetBrains interview of Andrew Kelley recently
and it influenced me to look closer at Zig 'cause it sounds quite
healthy.

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I've never done ziglings, but have heard great things. I picked up Zig
two years ago by going through the cryptopals challenges. I ultimately
didn't finish cryptopals, but I had a lot of fun, and felt quite
productive in Zig after just a couple of weeks of coding in it for a
few hours a day.
I am now getting back into Zig, also similarly inspired by Andrew
Kelley's interview. I agree that there is something very fresh and
inspiring about Zig and its community.
If you do find the time, I hope you have fun with it, too!

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Pathfinder 2e campaign with the group, work on my Portland-specific
Google Maps replacement, and hide from the heat (94 degrees!) while
reading China Mieville's "The City & The City".

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My morning brain read this as playing PF2e with a Portland map which
sounds pretty baller haha.
Are you DM or player?

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Honestly, that sounds like a fun one-shot! Drop the players in the
city and turn all the Portland cliches/stereotypes up to 11 in the
story. They all know the city super well, so they'd probably really
enjoy that.
In this campaign I'm a player. I DM D&D 5e for a mid-week game
though. You?

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Currently playing in 3 different games weekly and occasionally DMing
one-shots. Also working on my own TTRPG system while patiently waiting
my turn to DM haha.
Games are 5e, 2e (For Gold & Glory), and Wildsea

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Nice! If your system ever needs a play tester, feel free to hmu.

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I’m still working on it but the system rules are freely available
here:
https://ettes-eternal.3digit.dev
I’m still actively building the classes right now. I had them all
defined up to level 7 but as I’ve been fleshing them out further I’ve
been kinda doing a full revamp of them too. So the first 3 are DONE
but the rest are WIP.
EDIT: the name is a placeholder. Names are hard.

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I enjoyed The City & The City. A very fun book.

  commented:
ooo mind sharing more about your Portland-specific map tool? I'm based
in Portland (OR) and have been vaguely thinking about the
enshittification of Google Maps and what I actually want out of a maps
app.

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Trying to find a way to make some money on the side since I took a big
pay cut this year.  I'm an "in-the-guts" engineer, so I'm trying to
develop more "product-level" thinking to be more valuable at $WORK.
If I end up making or doing something on the side that only made a
single extra dollar, that'd be a win and a confidence boost.

  commented:
Weed cleanup outside and a new SGI Fuel power supply inside. Also
trying to unfunk my Talos II after a Fedora upgrade fail.

  commented:
Continue reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications (the new 2nd
edition). I've been making an effort to improve my systems design
knowledge as it becomes more and more important with AI handling a lot
of the development.

  commented:
Grinding away to get Compound Interest, our new game, ready for Steam
Next Fest. The deadline is on Monday!
It's an absolute chore at this stage, but it's working out well, don't
mind if I link: https://compoundinterestgame.com/

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Playing my first “solo” gig! Actually it’s 3/4 of my band, and a
borrowed piano player, but my wife is normally the main singer and
she’s not going to be there.

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Last week-end before starting new $JOB.
Not sure why but I am back to reading about OCaml.
Looking back at the last six weeks off where I did mostly none of the
planned goals.
I guess I decompressed too hard after 5 years on my previous job.
Family time, laundries and picking some books for the 1h30 travel to
the new office on Monday.

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Fixing the auto connect installed for the mower deck on my lawn
tractor...it makes tons of noise and the dealer clearly did not
install it correctly. Fixing a couple issues on my Miata for auto
inspection. Then, I'll be updating some Caddy and CoreDNS configs on
the home lab to make a few things better and finishing a new Gitea
deployment.

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I hope to complete the rewhack of my van's house power system which
will free up a fair amount of floor space. I'm new to camper van
design and learned that components that are rarely accessed are best
positioned vertically against walls so they're out of the way.

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Diving deeper into the colour science! Trying to figure out a good
enough gamut mapping technique that is not built on top of layered
approximations (myriad of magic numbers all over the place). Lots of
people were asking about C/C++ port of my colour space transforms
written in Odin, so that's also on my tracker for the weekend.

  commented:
Been building a declarative deployment platform, targeting internal
tools https://github.com/openrundev/openrun. I added support over the
last few months for service binding, that is configure a Postgres or
MySQL service and then each new app can easily bind and get a unique
schema/database within the main DB instance. Works on Mac, Linux, plan
to boot up my Windows server this weekend to test it on Windows.

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Techwise, figuring out how to get the Surface Pro 5 battery to show up
under Void Linux and building a device-specific kernel for it.
Otherwise, I'm going to be attending a 10 year reunion event of my
high school class.

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Volunteering at State of the Map US for OSM and working on
understanding how to make Ansible less of a pain in the neck for my
homelab.

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Trying to put together a talk for EuroBSD. If you know what I've been
hacking on, you can probably guess the topic.

  commented:
I developed an AI agent from scratch using DeepSeek V4 Flash to
complete some simple tasks. I'll continue to improve it over the
weekend.

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Manually cleaning up some Claude-generated scripts that make it
possible for me to do $DAYJOB on FreeBSD.
The aim was to see if it was feasible to run everything we normally
run in Docker in Jails. This worked swimmingly, but the resultant code
is a mess.  Multi-line ternaries, half-page-long partially incorrect
comment blocks, scary failure modes (deleting the mounted source
directory from the host if unmount fails), etc. etc.
I was expecting that it'd be bad; I wasn't expecting that it would be
this bad.  Still I consider the experiment a success - and it means
that (once manual cleanup is done) I can ditch my final "serious"
workload from Linux.

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Last-minute writing like it's college.
A few months ago I submitted my ionospheric modeling work as a poster
to a scientific conference, with a thesis of "this approach is awesome
because it allows you to incorporate multiple modalities of
observations without having to write special code to merge them". The
only problem is, after I submitted and was accepted, I ran my study
and those weren't the results I got. If I ran the model with one kind
of observations it returned perfectly great results, but if I gave it
both kinds of observations the results didn't get better, they got
worse (in fact, worse than the baseline I'm comparing to).
So all the time I should have spent writing my poster, I spent
frantically tweaking and re-running things. And I actually managed to
get acceptable results, but now I have like three days left to do the
writing, get it reviewed, and get it sent to the printer. Without
compromising my dayjob (which is something completely unrelated) or
abandoning my family. Much.
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