Log

I’ve mostly been working on my core project recently and I’ve been having fun building it from the ground up again. Feels a lot cleaner this time around.

But I have to admit that I’m getting the itch to give Rust another shot. Last time I gave up on it because I wasn’t making enough progress & didn’t have a clear project in mind.

This time I’ll try to first read through the entire Rust book to get a better overview of the language before starting a project. I have a vague idea of building something to make it easier copying movies to my Android TV box. And in general I’ll try to use some AI tools like GitHub Copilot (but not the agent mode) to help me with some Rust questions.

Currently focusing on:

• Learning Go (re-reading “Learning Go” by Jon Bodner)
• Setting up my Arch Linux laptop
• Running & calisthenics
• Overall trying to get back into my hobbies (reading more regularly, chess, music production, guitar & piano practice)

Officially back to using Linux on “new” old work laptop. Installed Arch Linux (btw) on it and I’m currently setting everything up :)

Decided to re-read Learning Go by Jon Bodner. I started reading it a while ago but stopped at some point. This time I won’t actively take so many notes and just try to absorb the information in general. Overall I think it’s a good idea because while working on my utils project I’m noticing that I’m probably not doing things in an idiomatic way. So that book should probably help me with that.

Tired of not really having a “bigger” project to work on. I’m overall happy with working on my utils CLI tool but I think I’ll start checking out some open source tools in general and see if I can start contributing to them.

But I feel like that would only make sense if I’m actually using those tools.

The exported page from my start project is now available on links.matkv.dev. I’m hosting this on Cloudflare to try it out.

I’ll try to mostly focus on my utils and my start projects this month.

Implemented the TIL page.

Thinking about setting up a TIL (Today I learned) page, got inspired by this and it seems like a nice way to keep track of random things I learn or find interesting.

Finally fixed my desktop PC. Probably still doing a Windows re-install soon but at least I have a working PC again.

I need to decide what I want to focus on when it comes to working on utils. Seems like I’m working on too many things at once while not making any real progress on any of them.

I should focus on finishing small features before moving on to something new & try to clean up the whole project and make it a bit more organized.

Improved my personal fastest 5K run time today :)

Going to put a bigger focus on Calisthenics in 2025.

Currently reading the final book in the first arc of The Stormlight Archive, Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson. But I want to focus on standalone books in 2025 and take a break from Fantasy series.

Actually, my old Acer linux laptop still works pretty well. The battery is kind of worrying but overall I got it back to a usable state. (Having tidy dotfiles really helped with setting it up again). Going to keep working on my utils project with it.

My desktop PC broke (some hardware related issue) so I won’t be very active on GitHub for the foreseeable future.

Started working on a Zellij plugin called zj-alias. I’m using the Zelligo library so I can write it in Go instead of Rust.

The plugin is supposed to read my bashrc_config file in my dotfiles repo and let me show a quick pop-up window of my custom bash aliases when I’m in a terminal session in Zellij.

I’ve been setting up cobra and viper for my utils project. Pretty happy with the functionality so far.

Added a first version of the workout-tracker built with Go.

Re-wrote my little beep program in Go.

Trying out Jetbrains Rider for the first time because since yesterday it’s free for non-commercial use.

Found a neat GitHub repo which let’s you practice common vim motions. It’s called vim-katas.

It’s 1 AM but I finally managed to set up a first version of the search feature :)

Failed horribly at setting up a simple search for this site.

Decided to also put more effort into music production in the near future. I want to get more proficient with Ableton Live and actually work on some ideas and maybe record something.

Oh god, I started messing around with getting Emacs 30 to run on WSL to try out Emacs-Kick. Really need to stop fucking around with editors and just work on actual projects and learning Go.

Decided to (again) focus on getting better at programming in Go. I’m going to try to regularly work on small Go projects and do tutorials & read some Go books.

Implemented archive functionality - this means that the rewrite of matkv.dev is mostly done. The main functionality works, I just need to re-add the old content now.

Lost a good 1.5 hours of work on this website because I didn’t push my local commits to GitHub and then accidentally deleted the whole repo folder :( Don’t forget to push your commits.

Bought a Sigma 000-15M guitar.

Started working on a tool in Go to convert my old book reviews for this new site.

Visited Infobip Shift dev conference in Zadar.

Improved styling of tags and optionally show date on post.

Published the completely rewritten site for the first time.