Recurse, halfway through

I’m a little over halfway done with my Recurse stint (it ends October 31st), and contemplating if I want to commit to another half session, or cut short early and start work in December. I feel like in this time I’ve done so much and so little:

• went on coffee chats every week;
• finally finished the book Designing Data Intensive Applications;
• completed the entirety of the Gossip Glomers challenges in Golang;
• hacked together a checkin zine pdf in python;
• hacked together a small app that lets people cowork/body double in the Recurse hub by the couches;
• did a presentation on kubernetes (and learned how to make a killer Keynote presentation out of it);
• completed almost the entire Advent of Code 2017 and started doing them in zig;
• added sys admin improvements to the Recurse cluster;
• participated in a talk and put together a presentation about careers in finance (ok, this was legitimately only careers in hft/hfs);
• learned to use a proxmark;
• created a react site, willyoudothething.today, and committed to learning react;
• started a create a llm from scratch book club;
• committed to playing Slay the Spire and tentatively agreeing to join a D&D group;
• went to Wordhack at Wonderville for the very first time;
• wrote a fair amount of c & c++ code;
• did a little bit of cryptopals;
• spoke at a recurse info event; and
• started writing a platformer game in using phaser3 and experimented with suno for assets.

Things I fell short on:

• CKA study went by the wayside (about 23% of the way through right now);
• wish i wrote more c & c++ code;
• barely started on assembly.

Things I still want to do:

• complete the llm study;
• write gobs more c & c++ code;
• finish the cmu’s databases course and use more duckdb;
• write more animations for my react page

All in all, I’ve had so much fun and think more people should do it!