What are you working on this weekend?

It's a rainy weekend here, so I'll be working on a personal project I have been working for a few years now called Exomind[1]. It's a personal knowledge management tool that takes the form of a unified inbox in which you can have your emails, tasks, notes and bookmarks organized into collections. I have iOS and web/electron clients at the moment and a simple browser extension for bookmarking.

Its backend (Exocore[2]) is built on top of a personal / private blockchain and is made from the ground up to be hosted in a semi-decentralized fashion on your own personal devices (your computer, raspberry pi, a cloud instance, etc.). It is written in Rust and has iOS, C and Web (WASM) clients. It's extensible via WebAssembly written applications.

It has very rough edges, but I'm using it daily to organize my life. It has also been my learning playground to improve my Rust, TypeScript and Swift skills over the last two years (it was on another tech stack before).

[1]: https://github.com/appaquet/exomind [2]: https://github.com/appaquet/exocore

There's this PCB design course that was posted on HN a couple weeks ago, teachmepcb.com, so I'll be spending a couple hours on that.

Other than that, I need to replace all 3 smoke alarms in the house that are expiring soon, and replace a toilet fill valve. The joys of home ownership.

I'm thinking about writing a small tool in Python to automate some ETL tasks.

Basically we have an ETL framework where we need to provide an avro schema and a yaml transformation file. Config-boy type of work is very boring so I plan to write a tool to consume a few JSONs and generate the two files, or at least the majority part of the files. It's somewhat tricky for complex JSONs but my script will simply pass any JSON array/object to manual work.

Adding back diamond price tracking for caratdrop.com

Found out it's hard to build a two sided marketplace for secondhand diamonds so back to doing what I enjoy, building data tools to save ppl money!