Weeknotes 184

We saw Paddington in Peru on Sunday. Very enjoyable despite the zoo-like audience. It doesn’t touch the first two for me though.

Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus – Why is fish being rewritten in Rust?

Finally, subjectively, C++ isn’t drawing in the crowds. We have never had a lot of C++ contributors. Over the 11 years fish used C++, only 17 people have at least 10 commits to the C++ code. We also don’t know a lot of people who would love to work on a C++ codebase in their free time.

I’m a programmer and I’m stupid – I feel seen.

Have I given up or accepted reality?

My new favourite hobby continues with mixed success. I moved on to practicing SMD soldering. The soldering itself wasn’t too bad, I think I’m getting the hang of that, the difficult part is dealing with such small components and figuring out which way up things go. A lot of the components are tiny oblongs with no markings of any sort.

Given that the soldering was going well I decided start building keyboard kit 1 of 2. Putting everything together went fairly well, but when I tried flashing the micro controllers one of them would not respond. I mucked about with it for a bit to no avail, so I decided to desolder it and test it alone. Clearly, I should have tested these before I soldered them into place – a lesson.

Unfortunately, the desoldering process did not go to plan, and I failed to remove the micro controller without breaking it. And worse still, damaging one half of the keyboard PCB.

Anyway, keyboard kit number 1 is kaput for now. This one will be put down to experience. It is potentially salvageable, but at a later date perhaps.

I’m moving onto keyboard 2 instead 😱

What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

The PostgreSQL folks also have a Don’t Do This page which has a lot of interesting tidbits.

Have I read all of this? No.

Will I read it later when needed? Also likely no.

Postal tracking continues to amuse/confuse. Canada Post reported that the Megadesk would be delivered on the 6th January. Then changed their mind to 14th. And it finally arrived early on the 30th December!

Watch this space to see if I can break a desk as well as a keyboard.

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition arrived. I’ve put it on a shelf next to all the other bits and bobs…

We woke up to snow today (Sunday). It was nice to see it blanket the city before it quickly turned to the usual brown slush.

Next week is the start of properly being off work. I have a list as long as my arm for things to do, so I’m hoping that I can maintain motivation. I also haven’t touched or looked at any code in about 3 weeks and I’m glad.