I'm going to buck trends and get my hands dirty -- The oil needs changed and the O2 sensor needs replaced on an old (1992) Ford Ranger pickup truck I recently acquired. Bought it for a song, and it's definitely not a looker but it's still going strong (especially after the small age-related repairs I'm doing).
2.3L 4-cylinder. Good enough for the light truck tasks I usually end up having. It's the last year of the first generation Rangers. I had a 1988 model with a 4 cylinder when I was young, and -that- one trucked along through all the youthful abuse I threw at it. I'm really looking forward to enjoying this one too.
Not working. Camping in a national park Friday night, spending the day there on Saturday and running a half marathon on Sunday, and chores/errands around the house on Monday to relax.
I'm transforming my career as an Engineering Manager into an indie game. I think I can convey several important concepts from big tech to broader audience to enhance the software development industry.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436030?utm_campaign=hn2
Also, writing a blog about it in hope to gain a few more wishlisters
https://mitrapunk.com/
BitGrid - it's an old idea, that has haunted me since the 1980s. This latest incarnation is in Lazarus/FPC, and up on github.[1]
I was prodded into action when a friend showed me the BitGrid page on the Esolang Wiki[2] I was blown away that someone had figured out how to do the Game of Life in a bitgrid... more than I've done myself.
I can simulate a 1024x1024 grid at 15 Hz clock rate, which should be plenty fast to do some interesting things. The emulation works, I have a tiny little test program that allows me to me reasonably sure of that (it's just shuffling bits around, nothing complex). I have ZERO support software for it... need to write some things, like a console, cycle counter, method for I/O, etc.
It's like finding yourself with a new IMSAI in the 1970s, with no I/O, or anything... just RAM, CPU, Toggle Switches, and BlinkenLights.
One day, I hope to have an Exaflop computer based on BitGrid chips. I wrote a big chunk of a DARPA grant proposal for it about a decade ago.
Continue working on new version of my GNU sed ebook. I started this year with the goal of revising all my ebooks - this is the third one. I'm also adding TUI apps for interactive exercises, already done for this book.
Thanks for the kind offer, but I'm about a week or two from finishing the revised version. That said, all my books are free to read online: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks. So, you could have a look now or wait till the new version and then send me the feedback.
I'm writing a funding proposal destined to apply to a national tech innovation fund for a SasS I am building.
This is an interesting exercise for someone who has always been in engineering IC roles (but still had to 'sell' his ideas to teams and stakeholders). Thankfully my partner is an academic, and is used to writing funding proposals, so I get good tips from her.
I got a bluetooth gizmo this week and tried to tie it into home assistant. Sensor values come in, but the battery level does not. The phone app shows battery level, so I know it's being sent. I'm looking forward to tinkering with wireshark some more and seeing if I can figure out how to get that battery level over BLE/GATT.
Figuring out why my GlusterFS mounts randomly fail with “transport endpoint not connected”. Easy to mitigate with a script to umount and then mount again, but I wish I didn’t have to do that at all.
I’m also working on my guitar - got a new tremolo tailpiece for a Les Paul and I’m waiting for a roller bridge to go along with it.
I'm working on a small program that continually monitors a region of the screen and OCRs and translates the text on screen if there are changes.
I want to use it improve my Italian skills by playing games with Italian subtitles and automatically having a translation on the second screen for reference.
