Status update, February 2025
Published: in 82faa89
Updated: in 8a795c3
Personal
There’s not much to share when it comes to personal stuff. One thing worth mentioning is the fact that I build my own desk. I don’t really do woodworking, but I took a course last year and I thought it would be nice to make something on my own instead of buying it.
Writing
I definitely need to write a more. Last month I wrote one blog post talking about a picker I wrote for Neovim.
Reading
I’m about to finish reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. I was reading it last year but sadly dropped it due to other obligations. That’s why I think I’m feeling a bit pressured to finish it as soon as possible. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying it. It’s a fantastic book.
The Art of PostgreSQL is another book I’ve been checking out this month. I like to always have a technical books I can reach to. They provide a bunch of new ideas or patters I can try out. Some of the things that have caught my interest are:
- The use of materialized views for caching.
- Listen/Notify to have simple PubSub implementation.
- A bunch of patterns for writing queries using CTEs and window functions.
Coding
I wrote battery-notify, a small daemon that sends a desktop notification when the battery of my laptop is running out. I want to make some improvements, but it fulfills my current needs, so it’s not a priority.
The project that takes most of my time is a web app I’m building to track my workouts. I’ve been trying to use Go for all my personal projects, so instead of reaching for a full-stack JavaScript framework as I often do, I decided to take a hypermedia-driven approach with this application. The current tech stack is as follows.
- Go and PostgreSQL in the backend.
- temple to render HTML.
- Alpine.js to add client-side interactivity.
- HTMX for client-server communication.
I’ve come across a few difficulties, but I think they are just due my lack of familiarity with the tech stack. I still have a lot of work to do but once the application reaches a usable state (i.e. I can use it myself at the gym without any issues), I’ll be open sourcing it.