2022w21 - Weekly Update
2022-05-21Thinking about the job search
- Wrote a blog post about how I want to think about the job search: How do I get a Job Without Hating the Search?
- This post has also changed my thinking about the job search
Habits
Alright here’s the summary of the last week, and next week’s plan.
| Report | Plan |
|---|---|
| Continued reviewing Anki deck | Add 20 cards to anki |
| Physical measurements went in wrong direction this week | Do weightlifting every Saturday; do 10 crunches every morning |
| Compiled the Zig stage2 compiler | Submit a pull request before next Saturday |
Anki
I continued with reviewing my Anki deck. I’m remembering stuff I put in there better, but I haven’t put many cards in it. I want to increase the number of cards I put in. I feel that increasing the number of cards I’m learning will improve the deck, and mean that I’m learning more.
Let’s get Physical
This is my third week tracking my measurements, and this week it went up. I’ve slacked on both eating better and weightlifting, so I might renew my efforts there.
Open Source Work: the Zig stage2 compiler
Yesterday I built the Zig stage2 compiler from source, on my laptop even! It only worked because I gave up on building the compiler with LLVM enabled. However, this means I can contribute, so I started looking at that.
The feature I’m want to push forward is the [Stage 2 C Backend].
I’m working on an issue titled C backend on behavior tests emits C code with compile errors when using -std=c99 -Werror -pedantic at the moment.
I just want to shout out matu4ba here, who contributed a minimal example for one of the errors, which I has given me a concrete problem to solve.