All right! On to the next phase of this experiment: easing into parenting. We welcomed the newest member of our family this month, whee! Now for a crash course in learning all the skills needed to help a tiny human survive and thrive… It's been an intense week and a half, but I'm slowly learning how to relax into it. W- is totally, totally awesome. It helps that he has been through this before and can remind me to not panic.

I've been able to squeeze in a little writing, coding, and sewing. Consulting is on hold for the near future, and all the things I used to do have been turned over to a wonderful and capable team. Emacs News and other community things are also on hold. I'm looking forward to resuming them when things settle down, but if anyone wants to volunteer, feel free.

Lots of learning ahead, which probably means lots of notes, sketches, and maybe even blog posts when I have the time to try to organize things into some semblance of coherence. =)

Blog posts

• Reviews
  • Weekly review: Week ending February 5, 2016
  • Weekly review: Week ending February 12, 2016
  • Weekly review: Week ending February 19, 2016
  • Weekly review: Week ending February 26, 2016
  • Monthly review: January 2016
• Emacs
  • 2016-02-01 Emacs News
  • 2016-02-08 Emacs News
  • 2016-02-15 Emacs News
  • Publishing Emacs News as plain text, HTML, and attached Org file
  • Building a today-I-learned habit, and displaying the documentation for random Emacs commands
  • Emacs News on hiatus
• Tech
  • On scattered moments and video games
  • Listing random npmjs.com packages updated today
  • Extracting the xinput device number instead of hardcoding it
• Level up: figured out how to add a zipper pull on continuous zipper tape
• Eating more vegetables

Sketches

• Journal
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  • 2016-02-06a Week ending 2016-02-05 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2016-02-13a Week ending 2016-02-12 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2016-02-20a Week ending 2016-02-19 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2016-02-29b Week ending 2016-02-26 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2016-02-02c January 2015 -- index card #monthly #review
  • 2016-02-28a Quick notes from week 1 -- index card #parenting
• Gaming
  • 2016-02-01b Playing with my brain's failure modes -- index card #gaming
  • 2016-02-01c Game endings -- index card #gaming
  • 2016-02-09a How do I want to balance games with other things -- index card #gaming #balance
  • 2016-02-09c Games and my brain -- index card #gaming
  • 2016-02-17b More thoughts on games -- index card #gaming
  • 2016-02-18b Games and open loops -- index card #gaming
  • 2016-02-21e Rewards -- index card #gamification #rewards
• Learning
  • 2016-02-21d Keeping questions in mind -- index card #learning #questions
  • 2016-02-19a Preparing for a today-I-learned habit -- index card #til #learning
  • 2016-02-21c Newborn care skills -- index card #learning #parenting #plans
• Experiment
  • 2016-02-11c What have I learned from years 1-4 of this experiment -- index card #experiment #review
  • 2016-02-11d How have I changed over the course of this experiment -- index card #change #difference #experiment #review
  • 2016-02-19b Fourth year evaluation of my 5-year experiment -- index card #experiment #review ref 2014-02-16
  • 2016-02-13c Disrupting yourself -- index card #disruption #change
• Time and energy
  • 2016-02-18c Using time confetti -- index card #time #productivity
  • 2016-02-13b Maintenance mode -- index card #energy #fuzzy
  • 2016-02-02d Places to go -- index card #exercise #walking #neighbourhood
  • 2016-02-11b Sanity preparation -- index card #preparation
  • 2016-02-13d Reading and diminishing returns -- index card #reading
• Cooking
  • 2016-02-07c Eating more vegetables -- index card #cooking #vegetables
  • 2016-02-02b Analyzing that baked orange chicken -- index card #cooking
• 2016-02-13e Planning my interfaces -- index card #design #devices #mobile ref 2015-05-22d
• 2016-02-05a Zipper pulls and zipper tape -- index card #sewing

Time

These time records are slightly out of whack, since I didn't update them when I was Rather Preoccupied. I'm slowly getting the hang of my new tracking routines now that I want to track both myself and the baby (her diapers and feeding).