○ 2025's Devlog 

0X.06

While playing around with 2 really nicely designed Rust frameworks, Dioxus and Bevy, I realized that my trusty old ThinkPad x260 is having trouble keeping up with my development workflow. A peek at btop reveals that:

Being too lazy to write a long post about how mad I am about increasing resource requirements, I bought a 16GB RAM module and replaced my current 8GB module. RAM issues gone. Thank you, ThinkPad!

Listening:

  • Sroka - La Nuée
3X.05

Finished my second reading of Blindsight, a book unbelievably densely packed with philosophophical and technological concepts, hidden in a labirynth of techincal jargon. My favorites:

.. of course, the core plot twist is also on my list , but I'm not gonna reveal it here!

New quotes are lading in the quotes room.

After reading online reviews, possible similar materials:

2X.05

Trying to get more comfortable with CAD software. Every now and then, during a lazy Sunday afternoon, I dedicate 2-3 hours to measure and model a random object at my house. CAD-based modeling is far more intuitive to me than Blender-like workflows. Perhaps my mind is deeply shaped with programming-based approaches to things and I find parametric modeling to be a reflection of declarative programming. Well, whatever works.

Model of a Focal speaker at my family's house.

Watching:

  • Orphan Black, season 4

Listening:

  • Nujabes - Luv (sic) pt2 (damn, the saxophones are so good here)
1X.05

Enjoyed It Awaits Your Experiments by Peter Watts.

Watching:

  • Orphan Black, season 4

Reading:

  • Peter Watts - Blindsight (this time the original version, in English)
XX.04

Focused on work and healthy lifestyle for the entire month, had no time to note anything here.

Run my first 10k.

Watching:

  • Orphan Black, seasons 1-3
1X.03

Thinking about data sonification again. The Digital Heartbeats sparkled some new ideas in my mind. Using code coverage data (Python's trace, Clang's SanitizerCoverage) as it runs in real time could be used to draw visualisations or play sonifications describing what's going on. I'm pondering on an idea of the shape of a running program and how it could evolve with different usage patterns of the same application. If the visualisation/sonification tool is written correctly, the shape could be preserved between application versions, altering only slightly.

Watching:

  • A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
  • Severance, season 2

Reading:

  • Blame! (1997, second time)
0X.03

Watching:

  • Coherence (2013)
  • The Substance (2024)

Listening:

  • Vulfpeck - New Beastly
  • Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
2X.02
Visiting Iceland.

Reading:

  • Don Norman - The Design Of Everyday Things

Listening:

  • Son Lux - Risks of Make Believe
1X.02

Reading:

Watching:

  • The Brutalist (2024)
0X.02

Listening:

  • Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
  • Robert Sapolsky - Human Behavioral Biology

Watching:

  • The Banker (2020)

Reading:

  • Pat Helland - Immutability Changes Everything
2X.01

Took a small movie-making (or rather video-tutorial-making) task at work, to get a break from programming/managing/whatever it is that im currently doing. Happy to report that DaVinci Resolve works like a charm on Linux, with full GPU support! Together with Bitwig, i can basically do whatever I want, without leaving the comfort of my Arch setup.

Playing:

  • Ultrakill

Listening:

  • Heaven Pierce Her

Reading:

1X.01

Watching:

  • Porco Rosso (1992)
  • Dune: Prophecy (2024)
  • El Topo (1970)
0X.01

Using last free days after christmas/new year to do some work on my infrastructure:

Watching:

Listening:

  • PJ Morton feat. Yebba - How Deep Is Your Love

Go back to 2024.