Weekly review: Week ending April 11, 2014
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Updated: Fixed links, thanks furansui!
A lot of coding this past week – moving stuff to Github, fixing bugs, making things a little more convenient… Two Emacs chats, too.
Started gardening again. =D Yay weather warming up!
Next week:
- chatting with Daniel Reeves and Bethany Soule of Beeminder
- helping Jason John Wells with Emacs
- talking to splintercdo about Emacs
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending April 4, 2014
- Emacs Basics: Customizing Emacs
- Emacs Chat: Iannis Zannos – Emacs and SuperCollider
- Notes from Visual Thinkers Toronto: Sketchnoting with others
- Raspberry Pi LitterBox Cam and quantified cats
- Digging into my limiting factors when it comes to interviewing people for podcasts
- Emacs Chat: Tom Marble
- Working fast and slow
Sketches
I think my focus on sketches is inversely proportional to my focus on code. They probably tickle the same part of my brain…
Link round-up
- What are your key-chord abbreviations?: Interesting suggestions.
- 10 Easy Exotic Meals You Should Be Making: Spices to explore
- Five One-Hour Routines That Will Improve Your Life as a Freelancer: Some of my friends are getting into freelancing. These tips might help.
- 44 Things Bloggers Should Be Delegating to Virtual Staff to Catapult Their Online Growth: Ideas for delegation
- Removing Sass Duplication Using Sass Maps: Time to rewrite my style.css to use Sass, finally. =)
- Advanced cash flow diagrams: Hmm, I should try mapping my money and time.
- On Manufactured Opportunities: The best job description is the one you write for yourself; the best opportunity is the one that you create.
Focus areas and time review
- Business (40.7h – 24%)
[ ]Build: Find a user-friendly RSS plugin for WordPress[ ]Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting[ ]Explore converting ClojureBridge tutorial to Org[ ]Explore membership plugins / course plugins[ ]Record session on learning keyboard shortcuts[ ]Write about planning for reasonable safety- Earn (16.7h – 41% of Business)
[X]E1 Unpinkify[X]E1: Check for subscribers[X]E1: Load people into comm[X]Earn – E2: Re-render video 3 if necessary[X]Earn – E2: Set up video 3?[X]Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
- Build (20.8h – 51% of Business)
[X]Check that all my WordPress installations are up to date[X]Get Emacs to show me a month of completed tasks, organized by project[X]Improve Emacs Beeminder[X]Make it easier to cross-link Org[X]Package miniedit for MELPA?[X]Run Hello World in Clojure from Emacs[X]Sort out cache slam[X]Sort out task templates and captures so that refiling, jumping, and clocking is easy[X]Stop loading d3js- Drawing (1.5h)
- Delegation (1.2h)
[X]Post Emacs tutorials links
- Packaging (7.4h)
[X]Fix cover for Sketchnotes 2012[X]Annotate my Emacs configuration[X]Draw "A" page for Emacs ABCs[X]Draft guide to getting started with Emacs Lisp[X]Learn about bitbooks[X]Review Sketchnotes 2012 digital proof
- Paperwork (0.5h)
[X]File payroll return[X]Plan my business and personal finances
- Connect (3.2h – 7% of Business)
[X]Emacs Chat: Tom Marble[X]Emacs chat prep: Iannis[X]Emacs chat: Iannis Zannos – music[X]Invite technomancy for an Emacs Chat
- Relationships (12.9h – 7%)
[X]Attend W-'s family thing[X]Check results for project F[X]Get the Raspberry Pi camera working and get a top-down view[X]Go to RJ White's semi-retirement party[X]Set up the Pi camera again[ ]Raspberry Pi: Use bounding rectangle to guess litterbox use[ ]Raspberry Pi: Extract blob pixels and try to classify cats
- Discretionary – Productive (18.0h – 10%)
[X]Flesh out story[X]Write monthly report taking advantage of Org tasks[ ]Blog about user-visible improvements, Beeminder commit goal[ ]Experiment with calculating ve[ ]Plant beets, spinach, lettuce[ ]Ask neighbours if anyone wants to split a bulk order of compost with us- Writing (5.9h)
[X]Write about discretionary speed
- Discretionary – Play (2.8h – 1%)
- Personal routines (21.5h – 12%)
- Unpaid work (11.7h – 6%)
- Sleep (61.2h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)