What are you doing this weekend?

Going hiking and biking, then yoga, then piano, then board games, then... oh, who am I kidding. Probably just microwaving leftovers and reading HN.

I bought a copy of "Mastering Emacs" and I'm going through it.

I've been using emacs for ~10 years now, on and off, never actually getting "serious". But at my new job we're provided with a remote machine and we're supposed to do most of our work in there[1], so I'm using GNU Emacs in screen.

So I'm taking this as an occasion to level up my gnu screen and gnu emacs skills.

So far the book has been enlightening. Probably better suited for somebody that has been strugg^H^H^H^H^H^H using emacs for a while than a complete novice, but still a very great book.

Also, i'm recalibrating the batteries in my ThinkPads, using tlp (https://linrunner.de/tlp/usage/tlp.html#perform-a-battery-re...)

[1] I could do some work on my work laptop but it's too much work.

I want to finally start learning object oriented programming.

I've written a lot of stuff for automating tasks at work (Windows PowerShell) and tinkered with hobby projects (rust, python) in my free time, but I've never been able to wrap my head around why someone wouldn't want to do everything functionally until quite recently.

I taught myself to program so I didn't even know about the term "functional programming" until quite recently :P

Today I was going to be writing, but I spent much of it lazing around on the Internet instead... I did get _some_ writing done, but not as much as I would've hoped. I am on the last few chapters of my next story draft and just need to get over that final stretch.

Tomorrow, I'm once again working up the motivation to attend a short story book club. I hope to get up early enough to write from a coffee shop before the book club session starts.

At this weekend I am going to hit a gym. In these crazy times, increasingly more people forget how to relax properly. By the way, here you cann find useful tips to engage in effective relaxation https://ivypanda.com/blog/how-to-rest-effectively/

Masquerade ball

Finishing off an evaluation of a candidate for Google Summer of Code

Some open source work (maintenance/discussions) - I'm in a bit of a rut this month, but want my annual Hacktoberfest shirt.

Some contract work

Decluttering (books)

Been trying to get through reading Ulysses, realistically will go out for a coffee and get <10 pages done at best

Might start the complaint process with customer services over a small item

Might win an auction on eBay and have to deal with updating payment details

Nothing. I lost my wallet and the bank won’t get me a a new card till next week and the DMV won’t have an available appointment till next month.

I am working on my startup

https://atomictessellator.com

Right now I’m monitoring a hyperparameter search run, I’m installing a new dev environment on my new server, and I’m implementing Monte Carlo tree search for substructure scoring

Winterizing my backyard and testing my snowblower before it gets too cold, making sure we're ready for the first snowfall.

Same thing I do every weekend. Try to take over the world.

Going for a hike in a national park 1h from Where I live

jwt hs256 for client side and server side

I'm probably going to go for a walk in the woods. I started walking in a different location around the time the bridge I reported some Nazis from under collapsed.

(This was in Appalachia, not the Ukraine, but I can see how you'd get confused from my post history. Thanks for the Google-y eyes, and at least use Bing if you're gonna abuse the wifi that badly.)