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title: 🌞 Now, summer 2024
date: 2024-07-18
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  kind: now
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## 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.

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### Career

- I passed the **AWS Certified Developer Associate** certificate exam! A celebratory espresso martini was in order. Planning to do **Solutions Architect Associate** next.

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## 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)