Weekly review: Week ending November 13, 2015

Posted: Nov 15, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

That was a very full week. Lots of coding!

The Toronto Public Library sent some pre-hackathon resources before the weekend's event. I had fun going through the CSVs and data feeds available on the hackathon data page. The XML file was a little unwieldy and undocumented (20GB uncompressed), so I wrote a few scripts to explore the data. I'm looking forward to digging into that catalogue snapshot over the next few weeks, when things settle down a bit more.

I added some code to my Emacs config to make it easier to create, select, and clock in on tasks. Actually, most of the code was already there, I'd just forgotten it existed. As a result of the code, I've been tracking my time and planning my days in even more detail. It's neat to have the task-level reminders of what I was working on that day, not just the high-level categories I'd been tracking through Quantified Awesome.

I've been updating the EmacsWiki too, thanks to requests from johnw and other community members. It's nice to organize information and flesh out notes.

In terms of consulting, I've been working with NodeJS and Angular. Angular programming was a bit slow in the beginning since I hadn't used it in a while, but every time I try it out, I become a little more comfortable with it. I've been getting the hang of using Jasmine to write automated tests for my command-line tools, too, which is a handy practice.

I sewed another peasant top, since they're so comfortable. A couple more, and I'll be set for the week.

Social-wise, I'm still feeling rather introverted. I'm okay with that, though, and I don't want to push myself too far.

I tilted the balance towards work and coding a lot more this week. It was great for momentum, although I ended up being a little tired afterwards. Maybe something in between would be good. I felt like I didn't get a lot of sleep, although my time records say I did. Maybe it was more about having a series of morning appointments? Anyway, something to play with next week. I'll take this week a little easier, I think.

Blog posts

Sketches

Focus areas and time review

Business (37.8h – 22%)
- Earn (32.1h – 84% of Business)
  - ☐ Rewrite to use pg backend
- Build (4.7h – 12% of Business)
  - Drawing (2.6h)
  - Paperwork (0.0h)
  - ☑ Learn how to do a geographic visualization
  - ☑ Investigate library xml dump
  - ☑ Braindump: exploring neighbourhood libraries, and other notes from the Toronto Public Library Hackathon
  - ☐ Convert to client-side code
- Connect (0.9h – 2% of Business)
Relationships (6.8h – 4%)
- ☑ Have dimsum with family
- ☑ Meet with M
Discretionary – Productive (8.1h – 4%)
- Emacs (4.0h – 2% of all)
  - ☑ Organize Emacs Hangout
  - ☑ Update missing podcast episode
  - ☑ Do another Emacs News review
  - ☑ Set up Emacs News mailing list
  - ☑ Set up hydra for quick logging of Quantified Awesome things
  - ☑ Burn backup of Emacsconf videos
  - ☑ Figure out what's going on with my org mode HTML export and targets
  - ☑ Update CUSTOM_ID in my config
  - ☐ Host Emacs Hangout
- ☑ Rake leaves
- ☑ Check out Stoic Week
- ☑ Memorize Latin pronouns
- ☑ Brainstorm improvements for fuzzy brain
- ☑ Renew pet licence
- ☐ Set up rsync backup
- Sewing (2.1h)
- Writing (1.2h)
Discretionary – Play (18.2h – 10%)
Personal routines (26.2h – 15%)
Unpaid work (8.0h – 4%)
Sleep (62.9h – 37% – average of 9.0 per day)