🌞 Now, summer 2024
(2024-07-18) [now]

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Yard work: some small landscaping, changed the topsoil to something less dry, and planted grass and flowers.
Purchased a wine fridge for some reason. This led directly to...

Started learning about wines. Organized a wine tasting. My top pick: Domaine Laroche Chablis 1er Cru Les Vaudevey 2022.

I passed the AWS Certified Developer Associate certificate exam! A celebratory espresso martini was in order. Planning to do Solutions Architect Associate next.

Finished Category Theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski. Had to work through it twice, taking notes on the second pass. I wish I started taking notes from the get go.
Wine Simple by Aldo Sohm, wine fundamentals for beginners.
Some CS papers:
- Do Be Do Be Do by Sam Lindley et al. The paper defines a language called Frank that uses a novel algebraic effects based typed effect system instead of monads. Also has types for suspended calculations (think Haskell thunks). Similar to Koka I believe.
- Cons should not eval its arguments, a classic that paves the way for lazily evaluated languages.
Japanese short stories (Yomu Yomu app) such as 人間椅子 (Human chair), a story about a carpenter that decides to live inside a chair that he’s made. Adapted to a vocabulary of 1500 words.