September 2026 — newest first.

2026-09-23

Trying: To do nothing! Just a day where I don't even think about computers.
Happened: It's rainy, so that worked out, and I didn't think about computers much! I got to play some video games (a lot of Rhythym Heaven), and I read a lot of just good 'ol normal fan fiction.
Means: Not much, just that a relaxing day is good to have. Also, I like ice cubes.
Next: Work hard next week!

Trying: To buy pants that fit???
Happened: Well, I found about a trick. Measure half of the waist of paints you know fits, mark that on something (I used a microUSB cable), and then you have an easy way to measure out "in the field". And it works! Also, I ran into a bunch of coworkers/friends, and had a wonderful time hanging out with them, plus I got to see an apartment for fun, which is great. Also watched La La Land (meh) at aforementioned coworker's place, and had egg rolls (very good) made by the wonderful [Nick Bunnyguy].
Means: People are right about serendipity and geting out! It's always nice.
Next: I wanna learn more about fashion, and how to look good. Cheap clothes are a good way to play with that.

Trying: Just grinding code today, backends in normal frameworks.
Happened: Mindnumbing!
Means: I should make more interesting architecture decisions, but that slows me down, yada yada, capitalism stiffles innovation.
Next: I wanna read some more, fiction especially, I have a fun idea for a short story.

Trying: Talking with Chris Walker from work, about how to move past just the transactional model for the YSWS program.
Happened: Thought a lot about scouting and Wordle-like games and badges and Burning man and boats...
Means: I think there's something here, some common element that I'm missing.
Next: Try and find that element!

Trying: Today was a lot of trying to fix financial stuff.
Happened: A lot of nothing, I managed to Swiss cheese failure myself!
Means: This is probably what most 19 year olds deal with when they start managing their own money, I’m not unique, but I’ve got good people to get help from.
Next: Keep getting better, replace cards sooner, being proactive is almost always the right bet.

Trying: Design with LLMs.
Happened: They’re pretty ok. Not good at novel things, you have to encourage creativity
Means: Designers still have a job, and I’d trust a human more.
Next: Not much! Keep learning about design, especially graphic design, cough magic ink cough.

Trying: Today I decided to carpe the diem!
Happened: Got a battery for my camera, got some film developed, went to the Art Hop, got new pants, ate a good lunch (finally good Arnold Palmer up here!), read a book, and played some video games with friends.
Means: I should leave the apartment on the weekends more, don't let the comfy bed command me!
Next: Tomorrow I have a little project lined up, which is good, given the weather looks meh.

Trying: Folk again! I was thinking about how to implement some sort of "dynamic download" of other people's "books".
Happened: To this end, I was thinking that a set of "blanks" could be a good solution, and that eink panels would be a good type of blank. You can render code onto them, and tags, and have them be dynamicaly controlled by the system. I tried it out by putting an apriltag generator onto my XTEINK X3 running Crosspoint, which worked wonderfully!
Not super visible, but this is a time tracking token, showing about 6 min logged.

Means: I'm probably onto something. A lot of other design decisions to be made, and eink doodad with a tag is not new for folk.
Next: More thinking about this, plan some other features...

Trying: A lot of slack botting today, but I got some work in on a nicer shapes library for folk
Happened: Slack bots are wierd!
Means: Eh not much.
Next: More folk, more WPs.

Trying: Thinking about the future. What am I going to do in the next few years?
Happened: Googled like a bajillion things. UMN-Twin Cities has a History of Science, Technology, and Math major!!
Means: A place to apply to, of course. I love it. I've been to the twin cities! It's sick!
Next: Keep looking, school isn't the only option. Though I'm pretty excited.

Trying: Architecture. I like it a lot. Do I wanna do a carreer in it?
Happened: Read a lot of papers, played with some software.
Means: Probably not, I like the software stuff, I like building systems, I like looking at the art, idk if it's something I can do daily.
Next: Keep learning!

Trying: Today I started following the classic [Rust OS tutorial], mostly to practice [devenv] and nix some more.
Happened: Got through the first couple chapters! It's cool, I get the interrupt tables a lot more than the last time I did this.
Means: Shout out to my friend Willow, OS-dev extraodinaire, she's the reason I understand that stuff.
Next: More work on half-life, maybe I'll do something fun with the OS.