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…

1. 2014-04-07 Working fast and slow #experiment

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)