what am I doing?

i'm going backpacking in a month! I'm leaving Australia, resigned from my job, gave up my apartment and most of my furniture to go travelling across Europe.

with me, i'll have a macbook m2 air, 8gb machine, 13". i'm used to a 16" 36gb m4 pro max, so i'm kinda not looking forward to having to manage my applications, but it's much lighter to carry around.

i intend to fill my downtime, if i have any, with programming, to keep my skills up, and have a portfolio of applications and open source contributions to show to a potential employer once i return to normalcy, and maybe gain some internet clout along the way.

projects

• WebToSpeech

  • i still have this domain in my back pocket, and so so many times i open an article, i just want to have someone read it out to me. most of the time, it's an overreacted.io article or something.

  • this project was at a point where it was usable by me. I had a test instance up, and I was able to fairly accurately convert a web page to a readable narrative with Mozilla's readability library and Azure's speech service. Maybe I'll just find that repo and infra and reboot it, but I do think maybe I'll convert it into a BYOK (bring your own key) application.

• Travelledd

  • this is a social travel platform idea I have, which allows fellow backpackers to record their journey on a blog like platform. record their locations at their leisure and privacy requirements. whether it's being broadcast to their family & friends, or no one, or to anyone who's interested, it's all up to them. I'm half thinking of building this platform on top of the atmosphere, but we'll see.

• Open Source projects

  • I have a few ideas around effect-ts that I'd like to build out, as well as maybe taking a look at projects on tangled.org and seeing what atproto projects tickle my fancy to contribute to. I'm well versed in Typescript magic, and standard browser API's.