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.

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

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I’m pretty good at Mario Kart. I hadn’t played it for about 10 years, but I beat all my friends when I played Mario Kart World for the first time with them recently.

I got so good at supreme commander that I could 3vs1 my TeamSpeak friends and whoop them every time. Eventually they wouldn’t play with me.

I suck at every other RTS.

Also I’m an incredible lover, for real

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.

I can whistle from both ends!

I’m always a little surprised when I look into the population MMR distribution for games I play a lot. I’m often in like the top 5% or better in the kind of games I play a lot. But… I suck at them. I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing and when I look at streamers who are actually good at the game, it’s not like they’re just a more refined version of me, it’s like they’re playing a different game.

So I like to describe myself as being “the top of the trash heap.”

I’ve gotten very good at cooking by trying around 200-300 recipes from all around the world. Whatever dish you’re thinking of, I can probably make it perfectly and tell you it’s origin and related dishes. I’ve made a system of my recipes where they are organized by origin country, allergies, diets, ratings, categories and tons more, and all ingredients are connected to more information and other recipes where they’re used. I feel like I’m getting close to solving cooking as a whole by fixing all paper cuts and annoyances involved one by one

• 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 am good at making the impossible happen. I’ll have a vision for something which seems impossible to most people, but by putting my soul into it I can still convince some people that it’s something worthwhile, and then we make it happen together. My visions don’t always come to life, but when they do it’s extremely exhilarating.

I can recognise almost 300 汉字 💅 it did take me about 8 months, life keeps getting in my way

also finally, formally medicated, no more self medocating for me!

also congrats to you OP!

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

I can speak in a British accent!

(Happy Birthday Mel Brooks!)

I’m incredibly humble.