This week I finished reading Thoughtful Machine Learning With Python and made a good progress with Deep Learning With Python. I keep adding more libraries, frameworks and utilities to my LLMs & AI list in Github. Just trying to understand a little bit more every week about this part of the universe.

Next, I’m going to read La posibilidad de una isla by Michel Houellebecq. In Spanish, because I still enjoy fiction in Spanish more than I do in English. I already read Las partículas elementales two years ago and I really enjoyed it. Also, getting back to read some fiction, trying to get fiction / real world readings balance.

Two podcasts I keep listening as soon as a new episode gets out: Co-recursive and Django Chat. I wish there were more podcasts like Co-recursive, with real histories about developers and software development.

I keep learning Rust. Snail learning. This week I think I made a good progress, I can feel my brain being now able to think in Rust. Patience and practice paying off I guess. Also, it’s worth mentioning that Copilot and Perplexity.ai had been of great help. Seeing what possible implementations Copilot suggests helps me see possible implementations. I don’t always take them as they are, but they help. I’ve been experimenting with cursive but feeling that I should be using ratatui. Cursive wins at simplicity I guess. I’ll be trying to write a command line tool for ClickUp (we use it at work). I might end up porting this one I already made with Python, I still don’t know.

I also started playing with Textual, I’d like to do a terminal-based UI, maybe for ClickUp, maybe for Jira given that I already did some experiments with a web client for it. We’ll see. So far I’m really happy learning to use textual.

Yesterday, I played futbol (soccer for US people) with some friends at the Maradona Field. It seems we gonna be doing that every Saturday. And I also managed to do a god amount of running and biking, more than what I had been able to do ever before.