Topics for 2025

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+Recently I've been feeling the urge to play around with tech for no other reason than the enjoyment of figuring out how something works. I haven't felt this way for a very long time so I cherish the feeling; turns out I might not be devolving into an un-excitable blob as I hard feared.
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+Here's a short list of the topics that are most present in my mind, in no specific order:
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+- macOS [Hypervisor.framework](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor)
+- Unikernels - I've been sort-of-but-not-really following along since my OCaml days (~2015) and want to see what's happened in this space.
+- OCaml - I used to love it and want to see what it feels like using it today.
+- Rust - I never really learned it, but I quite suspect I'll like it.
+- Real-time sync engine - I watched the [Linear Sync engine talks](https://linear.app/blog/scaling-the-linear-sync-engine) and find the approach quite intriguing; I haven't worked on a webapp with this kind of architecture before.
+- CRDTs - They seem to be increasingly relevant and I never built anything with them
+- SwiftUI - I have a few ideas for small-ish natives macOS apps I'd like to create.
+- WebGPU - I have zero experience with GPU programming, and WebGPU seems to be a fairly easy way to play around with it as I'm familiar with all of the surrounding technologies.
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+My current thinking is to pick any number of the topics above an built little prototypes with them throughout the year; small enough in scope that I can actually complete them with the limited spare time I have. I guess we'll see if my motivation holds once I'm fully back from vacation 😉🤞