GSoC and RustReach Day 41

Jetlag

• Since my flight got in at midnight, I was really tired today. However, I managed to get my rent together, pay all my bills for the month, and get some groceries. I have to submit my receipts for reimbursement for PLDI, but am ok. I mostly feel energized to continue.
• I also saw my photo in this article! It’s called “Hackathon Review and Stack Maintenance”. Thank you to Michael for supporting me. I have to say that interacting with him, I have only really good, positive things to say about him. He’s encouraged me.
• I also got my branch merged. I made a mistake and forgot a function..or rather, lost it. Yikes. I really need to work on getting less sloppy. I know that that comes with experience, but it really bugs me. It might have happened when I was working on the plane, because the person in front of me leaned their chair back, and my laptop wasn’t flat, and the meal table was so tiny :D I think that’s the first time I couldn’t wait to get off the plane to push my commits up.

I had my Rust meeting with my mentor

• I really enjoyed it. We’re a good fit. He told me about how the type-checker works. You can read a bit about it here.
• I’ll be picking what I’ll be working on for the following six to nine weeks this week, from the working cli group.. The three that immediately look interesting to me are error handling, testing and file-system abstractions. But I want to build a project this week and fail in Rust, first, as that will give me a lot of feedback on a lot of stuff. So that’s my goal this week, along with starting on the GSoC debugger feature I’m working on.

I also finally saw

• Ranjit’s videos. The funny thing is that since he won the award, those are some of the first things that pop up when you google him :D They’re actually pretty funny. I especially enjoyed the Ramen in the shape of a lambda.

I also have papers to read

• I have papers to read this week. I can download those and read them during the week.

Staying up to do Haskell

• Today was mostly a “day off” to recover, but I may end up staying up to do some Haskell until the early morning from the book. Just to keep going.

That’s about it.