What are you working on this weekend?

I have one more chapter left to read in the book The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science[1] so finishing that up is on the plate for this weekend. That largely wraps up a several month long deep dive into analogical reasoning that I've been engaged in. After that, I plan to shift back to studying associative networks / semantic networks / concept graphs and suchlike, along with revisiting some neural network stuff (not LLM's mind you).

Aside from that, I'll be doing one thing I don't normally do much of over the weekend, and that's some $DAYJOB work. I'm working on some experiments with the OBO (On Behalf Of)[2] login flow with Azure Entra, and since I'll be on PTO most of next week, I'm trying to finish things up, at least to a point where I can cleanly hand it over to a co-worker to finish this coming week.

[1]: https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/2224/The-Analogic...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2...

I'm working on an addon for Godot called Godot Sandbox, and we're trying to also build it as a module. A module is embeddable into Godot, so that you can have only one executable be the whole game. Addons are dynamically loaded at run-time. It's been a lot of work, but integration is just as important as making the addon itself.

Trying to understand Variational Inference. Struggling like hell though so if anybody has some great resources, I would be thankful.

I'm iterating on my accessible color palette designer site:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

I'm working on an article about how to develop an intuition behind the WCAG color contrast rules so you can spot good and bad contrast by eye instead of getting surprised by contrast checker tools. And how to solve color contrast problems like what to do when two colors don't contrast and what to do when your primary/brand color won't contrast for links and buttons.

After speaking to a few designers, I find most people want to follow the WCAG rules but get stuck going in circles not knowing how to navigate color contrast issues e.g. when changing one color throws another one off, or they have to use certain brand colors that don't have good contrast. Since working on my palette designer, I developed a lot of intuition in this area so wanted to share what I learned.

Not my mental health

Adding tests to the test automation of a personal project

Working on my tan today. Travelling across Ukraine by train tomorrow.

Learning Spanish to at least get to a B1 level by next February when my wife and I will be in Costa Rica for a month and half.

Spending time in the gym and spending time with my wife.

I work on various github projects: 1) Header-only ASCII font renderer for embedded/SDL/terminal https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/ascii-render

2) TurboStitchGIF: A fast, header-only C GIF decoder without dynamic allocations, ideal for embedded systems and cross-platform projects. https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...

My budget - the reality of living off my savings hasn't totally reflected my spending yet (mostly though). I'm trying out switching to cash.

My family - they're coming to visit for a few days

My health - evaluating what's been working for weight loss, charting my progress.

Using GH Copilot Agent to vibe code a LLM+Docker omnitool for my coding assistant: https://github.com/gtanczyk/genaicode/pull/25

The idea is to give it a task, let it do whatever it decides and expect to produce a result *inside container*. I'm still exploring this idea whether it makes sense, and is cost effective.

I'm spending my weekend planning a new hobby project to for the first time use both what I know about electronics and the programming knowledge and make my own WiFi enabled touch screen computer based on a couple ESP32 chips.

Learning n8n a little more for some automated tasks on a hobby project. Maybe try re-learning sketchup to diagram some home improvement/woodworking projects.

Probably overthink buying a mini PC to run Ubuntu on to do homelab like things, like running n8n or other docker images on like plex. Then probably abandon the idea and watch something off a streaming service, lol.

My band is playing a small bluegrass festival this weekend. We’ve been recording an album since last year and are starting the work of promoting it by playing more gigs!

A CLI tool to make reasoning about Postgres locks a bit easier.

Given a database[1] and a set of DDL statements/migrations you want to check, pglockanalyze will open a transaction, execute the statements, read the pg_locks view to analyze the locks they acquire and rollback (or commit, depending on the flags you passed) the transaction. Then, it will output the results for each statement.

I think there's merit in this idea, that said it's very much an experiment so there could be flaws and/or corner cases that this strategy won't work well for.

It's meant to act as a complement, not a replacement, to things like static analysis and the official Postgres docs.

https://github.com/agis/pglockanalyze

[1] typically an ephemeral database spawned by your CI pipeline