December Adventure

I have been out of town for the majority of this month, either on a work trip or spending time with family. But I still managed to have a lot of fun programming and making or working on projects.

Got deeper into lua doing some Advent of Code

Spent time on Code PDX's PASS, an open source digital wallet for providing home insecure individuals a safe place to store documents within their control

Released an MVP of what will become a three color nonogram

Submitted a PR for a new feature in Cerca, a small forum used in Merveilles

Made a VSCode syntax for `.plan` files a la Carmack

Fixed my rss repo to be more easy to set up on new computers and maintain

Worked on an idea someone had that I met at a volunteer event to catalogue seen license plates

2022

1130: Made a script that reads a file into memory and prints it to the console on uxn.

1201: Updated my website and site generator to remove all old files pre-build.

1201: Created a quick browser tool in JS for my partner to partly automate their job.

1202: Updated my random music picker from using VLC to using cmus.

1203: Made a piece of code that updates my website via archiving it into a tarball and piping it to the server via ssh.

1204: Set up tmux and scripts for consistent work layouts; play with archivebox for funsies; use awk/sed to generate on-the-fly alternative docker-compose environments (yikes).

1205: Not much done today, onboarding all week at a new job; small reworks in my todo app.

1206: Revamped dotfiles to work over multiple computers.

1207: Started dinking around with gforth. Not my favorite as the documentation is kind of bad, but it's enough to get me started understanding forth. Got helloworld.fs done.

1208: Spent some time annotating and trying to understand existing forth examples, like a `cat` program. It's funny how having a totally different erlang[1] can just throw me for a loop in trying to grok how these programs work.

1209-1210: Not a lot of juice to spend time on a computer doing things after a long week of onboarding at a new job plus a flu shot PLUS the newest C19 booster.

1211: Learned how to finally read data from a file and print it to the screen! It was a huge PITA, but it was fun to try and solve something like this considering that the internet has like nothing out there to help you. Good puzzle!

1212-1216: Still onboarding with lots of zoom calls... (_ _") .. zzz

1217-1218: Started dogsitting and didn't have a lot of energy. Think I'm still a bit overwhelmed from so many zoom calls and staring at a screen getting restless.

1219-1220: Barf, more zoom calls and bonux running around to prep for some real nasty weather around here.

1221: Started digging into the deep world of ARIA labels. Stoked to be able to get deep with some accessibility at my new gig.

1222: Wanted to play some more with Forth, so implemented a date-to-weekday converter. Wasn't too difficult, but the end goal of this will be hopefully some kind of unix `cal`[2] kind of calendar printer.

1223: Was able to print a unix-style `cal` pretty quickly! Stack manipulation is still very difficult and weird to hold in my brain, but it's becoming much more fluent to think of where I want to go and then make the code to get there.

Also solved day one of Advent of Code[3] in Forth, so that was fun.

1224: Started working on porting my static site generator {{SWIKI}}[4] from Python over to shell scripts, mainly using awk. I don't know if it will be better or worse, but it will have less dependencies and I get to muck around in shell scripting more, along with some TDD along the way.

1225: Continued working on my shell static site generator. Playing around with Forth gave me a lot more ideas in how to structure things. More metaprogramming in terms of good unit-tested funcitons, kinda like building with legos.

1226-1227: Same same!

1228: Mostly work-related stuff today, but did have fun creating a Vim command to get the canonical URL of a file in a work repo today. Lots of weird git shell commands made a very useful command, at least for sharing what I'm looking at with colleagues!

1: The seven programming ur-languages

2: cal(1)

3: Advent of Code

4: {{SWIKI}}