My mother in law said I’m a really good dad. Like not even on father’s day, just like randomly once.

I’m incredibly humble.

I wanted to learn hardware design by designing a basic risc-v processor, ben eater style, kind of like a 1970s minicomputer, with expansion slots for new isa extensions and CSRs. But obviously using real breadboards for experimentation would be too slow when designing a 32 bit processor. I had never touched an hdl before.

So I sat down and started writing my own simulator and netlist generation dsl from scratch. It only works at the gate level, no behavioral synthesis, but flexible enough to write components modelling, for example, 74 series chips. It does vhdl-like delta cycle simulation using 8-valued logic, but without vhdl’s signal forwarding footgun.

I then implemented an rv32i processor with full m-mode support, and a risc-v emulator in rom to trap and silently emulate any missing extension instructions. When a new expansion board is plugged in, those instructions are simply not trapped and are accelerated in hardware.

I then learned just enough systemverilog to faithfully transliterate the generated netlist into structural verilog, and it actually synthesized and worked perfectly on an fpga.

I am now in the process of very slowly designing boards to hopefully one day manage to build the whole thing out of discrete 74hc series logic

The horrors persist, but so do I.

My body is a machine that turns Vietnamese supermarkets into Mexican food for my lovely wife. I do not feel pain, or remorse, or pity, & I cannot be stopped unless I am killed.

I can actually, and I mean like actually, rock a pair of circle lens sunglasses

When I do have the energy, I’m a pretty good cook. Also I’m managing to grow things outside. Not like. Well. But they went from seeds to fruit which is the only thing I really wanted.

I am a really good earthmover, heavy equipment operator. My machine of choice that I run daily is a motorgrader.
Other equipment I am very skilled with; bulldozers, scrapers, and loaders. Fair on excavators. Skid steers and loader backhoes I am average.

My neurodivergence means that not only can I process a huge amount of things at once, but I can also process through large tasks quickly.

This means I am an absolute maniac when it comes documentation, large scale changes, and complex thoughts.

In one research assignment, I managed to visualize a 12+ dimensional object/map, in its entirety. I felt amazing and understood the datasets complexities all at once.

The moment I am done with my current job, I am fucking off to be a professor.

I can cook better than at least half the people I know (and im being humble). I can cook nearly anything, with the capability to pull complex recipies off in the first go. My only limitations are ingredient availablity.

some people are bakers, some cooks. Im both. Im not great at cake decorating though, but it’ll taste great at least

I not only won the genetic lottery in terms of being in the top 99th percentile of humanity for almost all metrics one could use physically or mentally, I have also become a jack of all trades, and a master of a few.

I did lose the lottery by “picking up” ADD, and ODD upon character creation. That shit hasn’t made anything easy.

• I make a great vegan ice cream that is loved by many non-vegans.
• I beat depression and anxiety.
• I have a fun job that pays well and I’m good at it.

I have nothing to brag about.

I’ve gotten better at teaching roller (and inline) skating. Yesterday I passed a certification as a “Level 2” instructor.

My actual skill level is kinda intermediate. At the skate school where I teach, many of the other instructors can skate circles around me, but I’m doing ok for someone who never touched skates until my 30s and is otherwise a very unathletic overweight computer geek.

Can I brag about my day? My husband and I got into a cycle of fucking, showering, smoking a joint, and (optionally) eating that repeated 6-7 times today. It was an absolutely perfect day off and we even got two loads of laundry done.

It’s super hot where we are (hence the showering), but our apartment is 3/4 underground, so it’s about 10C cooler than outside. Still warm, but not unbearable inside and we needed a way to pass the time, lol.