2024 Delights and Not So Delightfuls

Delights

1: Synthesizers

2: Cosine Similarity

3: Walks to South Portland Goodwill

4: Breadboards

5: Running

6: Ollama + llama3 + telling it to return json

7: Overnight computing

Not So Delightfuls

1: Linux on personal laptop just … completely hard crashed on me & I felt stupid & lost some stuff

2: Dependency creep on robot personal project (at its peak I needed 2 laptops & a rasperry pi & some peripherals & all of them talking to each other over a local network, all that just to start working on the dang thing & like if memory serves a a few shell scripts on a couple of the machines too. Bleh)

3: Hustle culture cosplay.