Personal life
Nothing much is going on. The weather has been quite hot here in northern Italy, so I spent most of my time at home. Luckily, the temperature in the countryside drops in the evening, so we could sleep without air conditioning.
We are having some trouble catching a mole that is destroying our garden. I'm trying some non-lethal methods, but I'm afraid the approach is not going to be effective.
Did you know I love anime? Not that I talk a lot about it. Anyway, I saw an interesting series this week, different from my usual kind: Ping Pong the Animation. I'm also looking forward to seeing the last Demon Slayer movie in September.
I finished reading Recursion: not the best sci-fi thriller I've ever read, but still enjoyable. I'm now reading the first book of the Gone series. I know, it's a teenager book series, but I usually read to escape reality and not to find the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"™.
Work
I should rename this section "Code". Not a lot of interesting stuff on this side. Like last week, I fixed some bugs on a customer project, and developed a couple of new features.
I'm still tweaking my Niri setup. I wrote a couple of Babashka scripts to switch workspaces and manage their position when I plug my laptop into different monitor configurations, you can find them here.
Talking about Babashka, I'm also writing a small script to publish posts from my RSS feed to Mastodon automagically, I'll put it somewhere public as soon as it's ready.
I'm slowly progressing with my Rust journey. It's difficult after almost ten years of Clojure to switch back to a strongly typed imperative language… Also, a lot of interesting languages compete with Rust, like Zig and Nim.
I made some changes to this site as well: I changed from "articles" to "posts", 'cause "articles" sounds a little pompous. I'm also adapting the website structure to microformats, to make it compatible with IndieWeb Specifications. The next big thing will be implementing comments (Mastodon? Don't know yet).