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2024–W22 #

  • Refurbished my fountain pen and also added some additives (!) to some ink to make it all flow better.
    • Really enjoying writing, slowly, with the fountain pen. Not quite sure why, but also: why not?
  • Attending BSDCan for the first time. Also my first time in any of the University of Ottawa buildings.
    • Excited to learn about ZFS and NetBSD things as well as a refresher on BGP/OSPF/etc. from a BSD perspective.
  • Spent some time learning what I've missed in ~8 years of not really paying attention to the Python community.
    • Lots.
    • Typing, and libraries like Pydantic, Blacksheep and SQLModel are all kind-of exciting.
  • I read Hexagonal Architecture Explained which I did not buy from this extremely fake looking website (which is probably real).
    • It was okay? But it really felt like a few late stage drafts and not a full technical book. I think I got what I needed out it; I'm happy to have read it. Also one of the authors died under tragic circumstances so who knows what future polish passes the book might have gone through, otherwise.
  • Dan and I came in third in his local pub quiz. Just wanted to boast really and if not here, then where? 😀
  • I set up coc.nvim for completions in Vim (especially Language Server Protocol support) and it's an amazing change. I've written a few days of Rust without firing up VSCode. Helpful while doing the 100 exercises which would otherwise require changing workspace all the time.
    • Also it's good with Python, especially when the Python code has type hints. Another +1 for typing.
  • I did some interviewing and it was pleasant but also the normal amount of anxiety inducing.
  • I do not feel super-motivated to work on making anything with code for myself right at this moment. idk why: I have been quite productive and motivated since March, even if I wasn't making massive strides. Perhaps because I am in a bit of an in-between state?
  • Rebuilt the Sherline milling machine which got damaged at some point and has been waiting in a box for over a year for a fix.
    • I don't really need it, but it's also not really valuable to sell.
    • Originally I was going to sell my large mill and move back to the Sherline, but I am not confident anyone will buy that one. So now I have two.
  • Decluttering my mind and also my garage continues. In some cases I've been able to just change my feelings towards a tool (like the milling machine: I don't want to create precision metalworks, but I don't need to get rid of the tool -- I can just accept that it's like a glorified drill press, and then I can happily use it knowing that not everything needs 25 microns of accuracy).