A few days late just means there is more to cover, right?
This week I worked on my homepage quite a bit. I added a ListenBrainz widget and fixed quite a few bugs that have been bugging me for a while.
I also worked on Mattrix, but I’m thinking about scrapping it. Between Claude and me, we’re pretty stuck on the encryption thing. It either needs to be refactored or I’m just going to give up.
My sleeping habits are all over the place. This getting up early thing is going to take awhile to set in. Some days I do well, and I’m up and at ’em early. Other days, I still sleep until late morning and it feels like the day is over too early. But I’m working on it.
I made a python script that adds metadata to the Manga I’ve been downloading, but the big thing I did this week was set up my own homeserver for Matrix and bridge my Matrix and Discord servers.
This has been a very odd week. I’ve long been a night owl. I go to sleep sometime in the 3-4AM range, and then sleep until around 11AM. I’ve been working this last week to be a little more normal. To sleep before 2AM and then up around 9AM. It has been easier than I thought it would be.
Anyway, here’s this week’s newsletter.
I worked on sonic-tui a bit yesterday. I fixed some lag and added the ability to shuffle through an entire artist’s discography.
Okay, so I haven’t done one of these in almost two months. But it’s time to get back on the wagon.
Yes. Work. I got a job. Well, I’m hired at least. I don’t actually start until this summer, but it’s a done deal. I start some online training in early March. What is the gig?
I’m going to be a teacher?
Yeah, it’s crazy. I’m going to be teaching two online courses at a local community college. One centering around Latin America during the Cold War and one general American History.
Yes, this is late. It has been a busy few days.
Wait. Work? Yeah, kinda. I got a call back a few days ago, and now have an interview scheduled for January. I received another call back today, but no interview with that one yet, they had some questions about the C/V.
I’m honestly surprised about both of these given the time of year and how shit the economy is.
Another week gone past. The year is almost over. How’d that happen?
This week was focused on Checkbox. It is very slow going. I’ve spent basically the entire week on native language scheduling. First, I tried an existing crate that someone else developed that looks for date creation. I thought that would do well enough, but the issue is that I will end up having to account for every permutation of a date that exists. That is a ton of work, and obviously opens up problems with those expressions that I didn’t hard code into the app.
I’ve changed the naming scheme a little. I stole the idea from Justin Vollmer. Yoink.
I have started yet another project. I’m calling it Checkbox, and it’s a todo list application that will one day replace TickTick for me.
It is written in Rust (btw) and GTK4. I’m learning Rust rabidly, but I still suck at it. So there’s a lot of error codes coming my way that I then have to go look up or ask Claude. It’s been enormously fun.
Free at last?
My last day was Friday. Well, technically it was my last day of work. I decided last Monday that I wanted Turkey Week off, so I put in a series of 14 hour days so that I could get my work done. And I am done. The entire company gets December off, which is why we always work so hard in November, so while I’ll get two more checks, I’m officially unemployed.
I don’t even know what I did this week as I sit down to write this post. Thankfully, I have some daily notes to check out. It has been a really, really long week.
Meh. That’s all I have to say about that shit. Almost done. Writer’s final articles are in. The editing will be done during the next two weeks, and then they go to design and media. And then after that’s done they’ll come back to me for my final approval, and then I’ll be done.
Well, two weeks in a row is a streak, right? Good.
Our year is almost over, and my time is wrapping up. The last of the writer’s work will be handed in on the 14th, and then next week we’ll edit and audit the last articles of the year. Those will be my last chores before I’m done at the end of November. Technically, I’ll be employed through December 31, but we have all of December off.