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diff --git a/content/posts/now-2024-summer/index.md b/content/posts/now-2024-summer/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d716e4a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/now-2024-summer/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +--- +title: 🌞 Now, summer 2024 +date: 2024-07-18 +extra: + kind: now +--- + +{{ toc() }} + +## 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. + +{{ fig(src="2024-wines.jpg", alt="Wines from the tasting") }} + +### Career + +- I passed the **AWS Certified Developer Associate** certificate exam! A celebratory espresso martini was in order. Planning to do **Solutions Architect Associate** next. + +{{ fig(src="aws-exam-drink.jpeg", alt="My hand holding an espresso martini outside in sunny weather") }} + +## 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](/posts/now-2024-spring) |