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+title: 🌞 Now, summer 2024
+date: 2024-07-18
+extra:
+ kind: now
+---
+
+## Home
+
+- Yard work: some small landscaping, changed the topsoil to something less dry, and planted grass and flowers.
+- Purchased a **wine fridge** for some reason. This led directly to...
+
+## A new hobby
+
+- Started learning about wines. Organized a wine tasting. My top pick: Domaine Laroche Chablis 1er Cru Les Vaudevey 2022.
+
+![Wines from the tasting](/files/2024-wines.jpg)
+
+### Career
+
+- I passed the **AWS Certified Developer Associate** certificate exam! A celebratory espresso martini was in order. Planning to do **Solutions Architect Associate** next.
+
+![My hand holding an espresso martini outside in sunny weather](/files/aws-exam-drink.jpeg)
+
+## Played games
+
+- Animal well
+- Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
+- Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
+- Cult of the Lamb
+- [Miru](https://hinokodo.itch.io/miru-an-analog-adventure-game)
+- Celeste
+
+## Finished reading
+
+- Finished _Category Theory for Programmers_ by Bartosz Milewski. Had to work through it twice, taking notes on the second pass. I wish I started taking notes from the get go.
+- _Wine Simple_ by Aldo Sohm, wine fundamentals for beginners.
+- Some CS papers:
+ - _Do Be Do Be Do_ by Sam Lindley et al. The paper defines a language called Frank that uses a novel algebraic effects based typed effect system instead of monads. Also has types for suspended calculations (think Haskell thunks). Similar to Koka I believe.
+ - _Cons should not eval its arguments_, a classic that paves the way for lazily evaluated languages.
+- Japanese short stories (Yomu Yomu app) such as _人間椅子 (Human chair)_, a story about a carpenter that decides to live inside a chair that he’s made. Adapted to a vocabulary of 1500 words.
+
+## Started reading
+
+- _Designing Data-intensive Applications_ by Martin Kleppmann.
+
+## Top tunes
+
+- [maudlin of the Well - Gleam in Ranks](https://open.spotify.com/track/5cyKheZd5E3jBtjcflE7Gz?si=y-mOWdUVT36XOo0zl1kK_w&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2BwbUYJeuUsv6LUA6GZHB4)
+- [predawka - erynias](https://youtu.be/wyOG7ZiVLLo)
+
+## Previous update
+
+- [🌱 Now, spring 2024](../archive/now-2024-spring)