Weekly review: Week ending April 25, 2014
Posted: - Modified: | weeklyI'm experimenting with spending more time focusing on Emacs. So far, it's working well. I've been moving more resources to Git and github.io (http://github.com/sachac/) to make it easier for people to check out and view the Org files in Emacs. And people have started sending me pull requests, hooray! itsjeyd contributed a section to this Emacs Lisp tutorial. This week, I'm planning to flesh out the reading Emacs Lisp tutorial more.
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending April 18, 2014
- Emacs ABCs: A is for Apropos
- Emacs Chat: Jānis Mancēvičs
- How I use Google Chrome custom search engines for quick access
- Reinvesting time and money into Emacs
- Planning ahead for the stories
- How Org Mode helps me deal with an ever-growing backlog
Sketches
Link round-up
- The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data: Oooooh, graphs. Lovely graphs.
- The frightening thing you learn when you quit the 9 to 5: It takes a while to get used to determining your own life, but it's worth it.
- The Quick & Easy Guide to Putting Your Podcast on Auto-Pilot!: Chris Ducker shares his costs in the comments. $120 per episode, gosh!
- I uploaded my emacs config to github, I hope you like it :). I called it dopemacs: Neat package list. I should make something like this too. Also, Reddit comments have some more links to configs to explore.
- Questionably useful flowchart about my podcast: Cool! Might be nice to make something like this.
- Dired Shell Commands: The Find & Xargs Replacement: I should get the hang of how
*,?, and&work… Hat-tip to Irreal for the link - Integrate org-mode and HabitRPG: Interesting…
- How do YOU navigate inside buffers?: Useful suggestions in the comments.
Focus areas and time review
- Business (32.9h – 19%)
[ ]Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting[ ]Go to Quantified Self meetup[ ]Host visual thinkers meetup[ ]Record session on learning keyboard shortcuts- Earn (12.9h – 39% of Business)
- Build (9.7h – 29% of Business)
[X]Build – Coding: Tweak post info to appear in sidebar on wide screens (> 1600px)[X]Add batch operation for "Today" and "Yesterday" to clothing view[X]Read Eloquent Ruby[X]Track all the experiments[X]Fix vagrant VM[X]Analyze a year of clothing data- Drawing (0.5h)
- Delegation (2.5h)
[X]Brainstorm more tasks[X]Add more tasks to delegation board in Trello
- Packaging (0.0h)
[X]Set up custom domain for git, update redirects[X]Decide on Linode crossgrade to SSD[X]Getting R and ggplot2 to work in Emacs Org Mode Babel blocks; also, tracking the number of TODOs[X]Use the structured debriefing framework for one occasion, then reflect on it
- Paperwork (0.1h)
- Emacs
[X]Outline a book or the key things that need improved documentation/tutorials[X]Learn how to plot with Org and R[X]Clean up live coding screencast for viewing tasks by project[X]Add more sections to Emacs Lisp tutorial[X]Experiment with exporting orgtbl[X]https://github.com/robtillotson/org-pandoc[X]Reinvesting time and money into Emacs[X]Share picking up workflow tips by reading other people's configs
- Connect (10.3h – 31% of Business)
[X]Help with gozes' configuration[X]Help zeltak[X]Invite bbatsov for an Emacs Chat[X]Plan pairing with Tom Marble?[X]Set up interviews with people[X]Talk to David Wolever about Emacs[X]Frugal Fire: Co-host interview with Bakari[X]Frugal Fire: Transition to Jordan[X]Check parts for rice cooker[X]Fix rice cooker[X]Chat with splintercdo (Janis) about literate programming[X]Set up conversations
- Relationships (5.9h – 3%)
- Discretionary – Productive (28.5h – 16%)
[X]Ask questions in public[X]Download talks as MP3[X]Follow up on missing book? Obliquity[X]Make a list of questions I'm curious about[X]Tidy up desk[X]What's new in Rails[X][#C] Track cat data[ ]Deposit USD[ ][#C] Tracking: Update the number of tasks- Writing (9.5h)
- Discretionary – Play (16.9h – 10%)
- Personal routines (25.0h – 14%)
- Unpaid work (6.1h – 3%)
- Sleep (55.6h – 33% – average of 7.9 per day)