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Updated Jun 30th, 2024 from Amsterdam.
Release Enderpy Python Type Checker
Update 30-06-2024: Daniel Woznicki, a new contributor joined the project.
I’m so interested in developer tools, so interested that I decided to build a tool myself. The goal is to be faster than other type checkers. It involves reading and digesting a lot of topics related to compilers, Python, and Rust.
I keep the project status on its homepage: https://github.com/glyphack/enderpy
I always wanted to work in a company where the product is a dev tool. But it’s not so easy to get into one with a resume full of web development. The project also gives me experience and knowledge required to work on what I like more.
Learning Dutch
I think learning Dutch would be a huge quality of life improvement. After about 40 hours now I can read and understand dutch. Hearing is still hard but I can do greeting with others in dutch.
Gardening
I’m practicing growing plants in my apartment both for decoration and consumption. This is another step to be a little bit more independent.
I have 20+ pots and I’m harvesting herbs. It feels good to make food with my own herbs. I got a gardening pot and going to fill that with soil on the balcony and grew larger plants.
Self Hosting
I’m trying to eliminate my use of cloud based technologies. Instead, I’m trying to use software that is local, or open source, or I own the data. It’s a big change, I’m practicing with self-hosting some software on my Raspberry Pi.
It’s fascinating that the stuff I have to do to set up servers is so different from my day job. In my day job we live few levels of abstraction above the running server. I don’t even know who runs the code I deploy and how.
I want to rely on things that a single person can maintain.
Right now I’m hosting my own:
- Chat Server (Matrix Dendrite)
- VPN
- YouTube Clone
Working on Pytest
I joined pytest dev sprint Last month in Austria. During the sprint I worked on two improvements for fixtures and assertions. The changes are quite big so I’m going to work on them for a while and submit results as a PR.
I learned a lot from the core contributors there. I’m going to submit a proposal to talk at pycon NL about my experience attending this event.
Also I just learned that how much magic is done in pytest to help end user have better experience in testing. I feel this is missing in golang.
Getting a Cat
I’m going to visit a shelter soon and adopt a cat!