Jan 11: What did I do this week?
2026-01-11
Watched AGDQ 2026
I've been watching GDQs since either the first or second one, ten thousand years ago, and the main events have been highlights of my year. It's just so much fun, and it's heartwarming that they're raising so much money for charity and also that GDQ has been explicitly inclusive of trans (and, more recently, Black) people, and that people respond so well to that - runners and donors keep saying "Trans rights!", and the crowd keeps cheering for it. It's a nice reminder that actually, there are a lot of good people out there. It's also kept me from playing video games (except for a little OpenTTD, which I think I'm now tired of again) and watching TV shows, and I'm looking forward to getting back to those.
Started the 250 Boxes Challenge part of Drawabox
I'm well past two weeks of Drawabox now, and while this part of it is a little samey - I'm drawing five boxes each day, and it's going to be the same exercise until I have 50 done, when the instructions will change a bit - I am still enjoying it. I'm being rewarded for discipline and patient attention to detail, which is nice.
Worked on Game Boy emulator
A little frustrated by this! The part I'm almost done with is the CPU and implementing all of its instruction set, and I've carefully gone through all of it but it still doesn't behave correctly, and test software that people have made hasn't been quite enough for me to find exactly where the problem is. It seems like there's a bug in either one of the methods that write to RAM or one of the control flow ones, and I don't know. I'm probably going to take a break from it and then go through everything again.
Moved router and server
These little machines used to live under my bed, which has worked well except for requiring me to do some uncomfortable crawling when I've needed physical access. This week, I put some books I'm never going to read again and don't care about in a box and moved the machines into my bookshelf instead, which is much more convenient. I don't need to touch them very often, but I'm going to be very thankful the next time I do.
Remembered that reading books is fun sometimes
I started on Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and I'm having a good time. I haven't read any stories starring intelligent, tool-using, math-Understanding giant spiders before. Diversity win!
