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Agenda

• Shortcut
  • Whitespace
  • Feetnotes
  • Todos
  • Clocking work
• Book I'm reading
  • Poor Charlie's Alamnach
• [2024-01-28 Mon]
  • Finished reading The Opium war
  • Start reading Engineers guide
• [2023-12-16 Sat]
  • Llama file
    • Make a drop-in back-end replacement for OpenAI, maybe in Linode or Fermyon
    • Make a Discord bot
    • Create an interface using https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui
    • How to create a new model, how to make it learn a book and have answers based on
  • Do the HuggingFace course
  • Do the Uncluttered course
  • Master Emacs [0/6]
    • Mount an emacs server
    • Master Org mode on emacs
    • Move away from feedly and use emacs
    • Only use Emacs for programming
    • Create a blog using publish orgmode
    • Learn Elisp
  • Finish learning OCaml
    • then learn Proof programming Coq
  • Learn Prolog
  • Learn Scheme/Racket/ELisp
  • Learn Wasm, Spin, and Fermyon
  • Finish advent of code
  • Finish books on algorithm
  • Build mazes
  • Build a fediverse chat app
  • Use magit for handling a forge
  • Host and use a fediverse based forge
  • Finish the PromptHero courses
  • Recap of the year.
  • Programming bucket list
• [2023-12-15 Fri]
  • No Rust
  • Ocaml
  • Advent Of Code
  • Birthday !
• [2023-11-24 Fri]
  • Uncluttered
• [2023-11-20 Mon]
  • Rust
• [2023-11-19 Sun]
  • Spin
  • App to recreate
  • Xmas tree
  • Rust
• [2023-11-18 Sat]
  • Spin and Fermyon
  • Rust
  • Front End project
• [2023-11-17 Fri]
  • Gatehouse School
• [2023-10-10 Tue]
  • In media res scene
• [2023-10-08 Sun]
  • The Burning Wheel
  • Scenario idea
• [2023-10-07 Sat]
  • Do something about it Club
• Footnotes

Shortcut

Whitespace

M-x whitespace-mode

Activates a better whitespace mode

Feetnotes

C-c C-x f

Creates a footnote, see guide. C-c C-c to jump between definition and refs.

Todos

C-c C-t

cycling throught the states of the todos

C-u C-c C-t

Log the change of status

Clocking work

C-c C-x C-i

Clock in

C-c C-x C-o

Clock out

C-c C-x C-d

Display clocks

Book I'm reading

TODO Poor Charlie's Alamnach

It's actualy available online

[2024-01-28 Mon]

Finished reading The Opium war

Start reading Engineers guide

Actually resuming the reading

[2023-12-16 Sat]

Llama file

Actually quite cool to be able to have a chat with a bot that sits in your laptop https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Make a drop-in back-end replacement for OpenAI, maybe in Linode or Fermyon

Make a Discord bot

Create an interface using https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui

How to create a new model, how to make it learn a book and have answers based on

the content of the book

TODO Do the HuggingFace course

TODO Do the Uncluttered course

• https://the-raggedy-dev.teachable.com/courses/uncluttered-test-driven-web-development/lectures/50520260

TODO Master Emacs [0/6]

Enough to be dangerous

TODO Mount an emacs server

TODO Master Org mode on emacs

TODO Move away from feedly and use emacs

TODO Only use Emacs for programming

TODO Create a blog using publish orgmode

TODO Learn Elisp

Finish the Intro to ELisp

TODO Finish learning OCaml

In progress

TODO then learn Proof programming Coq

TODO Learn Prolog

TODO Learn Scheme/Racket/ELisp

TODO Learn Wasm, Spin, and Fermyon

TODO Finish advent of code

Do it with AI only ?

TODO Finish books on algorithm

Grokking algorithm and then the algo book on C

TODO Build mazes

As based in the book Make a generator out of it

TODO Build a fediverse chat app

TODO Use magit for handling a forge

TODO Host and use a fediverse based forge

See https://forgefed.org/

TODO Finish the PromptHero courses

Recap of the year.

Since it's the end of the year, we start to see lots of posts about what marked people during 2023 by listing the links to articles that matters to them. I guess I can go through all the links in Discord and list the

• 24 ? twice a month
• 48 ? 4 per month, each week-ish
• 52 ? each week

Programming bucket list

From https://syki.dev/bucket-list

• Be a contributor in a large Open Source project¹
• Build a news aggregator²
• Build a physics engine³
• Build a lot of maze⁴
• Build a recommendation engine⁵
• Build a sentiment analysis tool⁶
• Build an AR app⁷
• Build and deploy a chat server⁸
• Build a fediverse chat app
• Build a security tool⁹
• Create a multiplayer online game¹⁰
• Create a PWA (done too many already)
• Create AI influencer¹¹
• Develop a blockchain application¹²
• Develop a crypto currency¹³
• Develop a VR application¹⁴
• Develop an e-commerce site¹⁵
• Develop an open-source game engine¹⁶
• Develop a browser extension
• Have your own TOR page¹⁷
• Invent a gesture controled interface¹⁸
• Set up a ci/cd pipeline (done already)
• Sponsor FOSS projects¹⁹
• Write my own DB²⁰
• Write a page in a SSG²¹
• Write an SPA (lol, done)
• Build a personal cloud storage system²²
• Design and print a 3D thing²³
• Host your own server²⁴
• Be the owner of a smartphone app²⁵
• Develop a Saas product²⁶
• Work in a startup (done, a lot)
• Build a Discord bot²⁷
• Create a chatbot²⁸
• Create a DataViz using D3²⁹
• Develop a digital artwork generator³⁰
• Develop a file encryption tool³¹
• Learn a functional language (done)
• Learn and use containers³²
• Write an NPM module³³

[2023-12-15 Fri]

No Rust

Realise this is more for System than Back end thing. I can see people start talking about Ocaml, Back to my roots

Ocaml

Start learning https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/index.html

Advent Of Code

So many of those

• Advent of Code, the original
• Advent of Spin, the wasm one
• Advent of Svelte, the Front End one

Birthday !

Terrible day, Clarice at the nursery Marcus was terrible, yelling and doing nasty kid stuff Event in the restaurant he was difficult Tried some cakes from a random bakery but Clarice ended up eating everything

[2023-11-24 Fri]

Uncluttered

Started the lessons about development from the browser, meaning not node. Discovered that Emacs can also be used as a webserver. Guile can be used to write a webserver. Rocket could be a webserver written in Rust. Esbuild is probably the simplest option at this stage.

[2023-11-20 Mon]

Rust

Wrote through chapter 2 and build a guessing game.

[2023-11-19 Sun]

Spin

Started the SpinSocial tutorial

App to recreate

https://chargen.scriptwizards.org/?class=magic-user

Xmas tree

We decorated the sapin today

Rust

Started learning Rust with the interactive version of the book

[2023-11-18 Sat]

Spin and Fermyon

Started working on it. Doing the tutorial and keep exploring. It does look like a fun Back End to put a Front End on top.

Rust

Started working on Wasm container and Fermyon. Should be a good idea to start learning Rust as BE and Microservice language. Start by building project:

1. Mad Libs Generator
2. Number Guessing
3. Text-based adventure game
4. Dice rolling simulator
5. Hangman
6. Contact book
7. Email Slicer
8. Binary search algorithm
9. Desktop notifier app
10. Story generator
11. YT video downloader
12. Website blocker
13. Spin a yarn
14. What's the word
15. Rock, paper, scissors
16. Leap it!
17. Find out, Fibonacci
18. Calculator
19. Countdown clock and timer
20. Random password generator
21. Random wikipedia generator
22. Reddit Bot
23. Rust command line app
24. Alarm clock
25. Tic-Tac-Toe
26. Steganography
27. Currency converter
28. Post-it notes
29. Site connectivity checker
30. Directory tree generator
31. Speed typing test
32. Content aggregator
33. Image resize app
34. File explorer
35. Plagiarism checker
36. Web crawler
37. Music player
38. Price comparison extension
39. Expense tracker
40. Regex query tool
41. Insta photo downloader
42. Quizz app

Front End project

The same way I want to learn about Spin and wasm, this invites to build project for the Front end as well

1. Calculator
2. Quizz App
3. Rock paper scissors
4. Note app
5. Stopwatch app
6. QR code app
7. Weather app
8. Ecommerce website
9. Landing page
10. Password generator
11. Tic Tac Toe
12. Link shortener website
13. Portfolio website
14. Drawing app
15. Food order website
16. Meme generator
17. Movie app
18. Chat app
19. Twitter clone
20. Survey app
21. E-book site
22. Insta clone
23. Whatsapp clone
24. Netflix clone
25. File sharing app
26. Parallax website
27. Job search app
28. Pinterest clone
29. Dating app
30. Social media dashboard
31. Tracker app
32. Memory app
33. Giphy clone
34. User acitvity tracker
35. Chess game, but go
36. Music player
37. To-do list app
38. Random user api
39. Typing speed test
40. stock trading app

[2023-11-17 Fri]

Gatehouse School

Had a meeting with the Teachers. They're basically saying that Marcus is not fit for the school and that he should find another one. All that being said very politely but still understood that maybe Marcus would be happier somewhere else. We started looking somewhere else but for now we're trying to see if Goldenspark could take Marcus back for a week and see if his behaviour is better over there. Just to be sure this is not a passing phase. They are 60 is the class and this is very likely that he is overstimulated. We need to look for a school with smaller classes, like Faraday.

[2023-10-10 Tue]

In media res scene   RPG

Based on the starting sequence of Castlevania Nocturne. You're under water, sound is muffled. Your body has the reflexe to block the water and keep you from breathing, for now. You see islands of fire floating above you, some ships passing on top of you. Both sides are fighting a vein battle when you obviously can tell that the ocean has always been the victor. You could die here, end up now. What do you do?

[2023-10-08 Sun]

The Burning Wheel   RPG

Burning Wheel shows some traces of its ages – early 2000s. There are some rules that are too specific for not very good reasons. Thinking about the rules of XP attribution ³⁴. Not sure if terms have settled in the future or if this is specific to Burning Wheel but:

Obstacle

number of success required

Exponent

number of dice in the roll

Gradient

what constitue a success (4+, 3+, …)

The worsd chosen for the gradient would not go very well with today's sensibilites. Black for 4+, Gray for 3+, and White for 2+. The whiter you get, the more powerful you are.

The characters are very much closer to the species in The Lord of the Rings than any other RPGs I've seen so far. Dwarves have Greed, Elves have Grief. Human have nothing special because they are the norm. But they have a 5x more lifepaths than the other species.

Elves are the real Bards. They're magic is based on songs and it works well. It's interresting to see that they did not try to make the different species well balanced. An elf is buffed compared to the others but at Greif 10, he's a goner.

Scenario idea   RPG

While listening to Until it sleeps by Metallica. PCs have to wait for the bad evil to fall asleep before being able to end whatever curse they're trying to put an end to. Name: White Absolva, the source of all evil? While they wait for a spell to take Effect, an star alignment, … they have to limit the effect of White Abs. evil influence.

[2023-10-07 Sat]

Do something about it Club   Article

Very interesting article about doing more than thinking Before even reading any blogpost/article/book, state what you intend to do with it. What you expect to gain from the reading Once done, write down what you got and then compare with your expectations Also list some action points that came out of the article

Some good quotes from the articles:

It’s the value that seeks to do things, see the results of doing those things. Ideas made tangible

I don’t want to derive pleasure from “having an opinion.” I want to be hopeful and action-oriented, but not idealistic and closed to discussion. I don’t want the mere discussion of ideas to give me satisfaction.

what I should have aimed to do back then was to not make notes on the contents of the articles/blog posts/videos/etc. but to ask of each item, “now what?”

Footnotes

³³https://www.npmjs.com/ ³²https://www.docker.com/ It's Docker but really, what you want is Podman ³¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZT7wvTeVyY ³⁰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf4z8A-OWBY or a city generator, or a maze generator, that kind of thing ²⁹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8V5o2UHG0E Not a tutorial but an interesting data set and make a viz about it. Of course, post it somewhere online. ²⁸https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvOnYLDg8_Y&list=PLQVvvaa0QuDdc2k5dwtDTyT9aCja0on8j ²⁷Or even better, a mastodon bot 🤷 ²⁶https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3lcqUOaOA Not sure if the Saas thing is helping society at all, maybe offering a set of tool that will allow people to develop their own software is probably the way to go. ²⁵https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4rxYe-jKI&list=PLN3n1USn4xllDDLwgJ4avEqgj4dWynofp ²⁴https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXG4ySy1m8 ²³https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRsaf16EdNM ²²https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLC0FUnko-M ²¹https://www.11ty.dev/ ²⁰https://acmiitr.medium.com/making-our-own-database-part-1-6cd9c49ed924 ¹⁹https://github.com/sponsors ¹⁸https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5k-4-OEuTk ¹⁷https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllS9tkCkaM ¹⁶https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJkcv_rL9Y&list=PLpM-Dvs8t0Va6RoHkaLuPbRh7Fwpy4nbV ¹⁵https://nextjs.org/commerce but with standard tech only, and buy spaceships ¹⁴https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-tutorial-hello-vr/ ¹³https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befUVytFC80 ¹²Using Bitcoin, not Eth please ¹¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5ZB-mqZKM&t=11s ¹⁰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ze26M_Fm6g ⁹https://www.kali.org/tools/ ⁸https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat ⁷https://www.tekrevol.com/blogs/how-to-build-an-augmented-reality-apps/ ⁶https://brand24.com/blog/sentiment-analysis/ ⁵https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3RKsY2H-NE ³https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMbRGTBOHU ⁴From the book about coding maze ²https://feedly.com/ ¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6M_sqAuZo

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³⁴

As in Differentiating XPs based on how your PC earned them and being only able to spend them for specific upgrades.