Today was my first day of the full Fall 1 2020 batch at the Recurse Center. Technically, I started on Monday for orientation, but I was away camping for the past few days, so I really started today. I am so grateful to have this opportunity since it will end right before I start my job at Wayfair, as well as being able to pursue passion projects & learning with a great community in these next twelve weeks.
The area I am interested in learning more about is Rust (asynchronous runtimes in particular), compilers, systems programming, and the Linux kernel. A few project ideas I have come up with are:
- An asynchronous runtime (or maybe just an executor)
- A tiny C compiler
- A kernel module
So far, I have joined the morning check-ins meeting and a compiler study group. In the compiler study group, I want to collaborate to try to work on open-source compiler projects as well as go through the book we agreed to read: Engineering a compiler.
Even though I have a few project ideas listed above, my end goal of the batch is to gain a deeper understanding of the areas I'm interested in. Even if this means I don't finish any of my projects, or I switch from working on my own project to open-source ones, I am open to it as long as I feel like I'm learning more each day.
Excited to see what these next twelve weeks bring!
~ Dan