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Weekly review: Week ending March 21, 2025

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Some walking, some writing, some Emacs tweaking. A+ and I went to a pottery wheel workshop. That was nice. My eyes have been dry lately, so I've been using eye drops.

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Sketches

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  • On Michel de Montaigne's tangents: quote from Je Replie Ma Vue Au Dedans | Brain Baking (toot)

    “One of the consequences of his unique approach to writing is the many digressions present in the Essais. And with many, I mean a great deal of 'em. Most, if not all, essays only mention the topic—as supposedly made apparent to the reader via the title—in passing. Bakewell picks out an example: About chariots. The text starts with a digression on writing, sways over to the very compelling subject of sneezing only to land on the actual topic two pages later to then to drift off again onto a summary of recent happenings in the New World.”

    If I meander, at least I'm in excellent company.

  • On intentional friction - quote from PKM Summit 2025 Notes | Brain Baking (toot) Intentional friction: slow down and add context (your why) for tasks and notes. I like this because it makes it easier to pick things up again and actually do something about it. Related thought: turning books into action items

    “Someone else then advised to add context: why did you record this, or why do you think this might be important? If you can't write that down, then don't save it. This is added friction: constantly aiming to reduce friction is not always beneficial to your system. We still have the habit to collect too much stuff and do too little with it. This seemed to be a shared struggle among attendants and speakers alike.”

  • On sharing your questions - quote from Ness Labs on collective curiosity (toot) Also via @takeonrules's journal entry

    1. Mapping the unknown. Many breakthroughs start when someone admits “I don't understand why…” Sit down with your colleagues and explicitly write down what you don't know or understand about a topic. This turns knowledge gaps into shared opportunities for discovery. 

    This reminds me of that link I just shared about a person's big questions: https://tracydurnell.com/questions/
    another example: https://reeswrites.com/about-big-questions/

    Oh hey, Ness Labs = Anne-Laure Le Cunff, of the ADHD and curiosity paper I've also got a link to somewhere in my drafts; adding another blog to my feed reader

    Followed up: I started a list of questions I often consider, inspired by Tracy Durnell.

  • On the density and invisibility of digital notes (toot)

    And these digital files take a different kind of stewardship. The density of information per cubic inch of material is mind-boggling. Yet that density of information exists invisible to our analogue self, we need wizardry to make it visible and hopefully known. This density and invisibility, I suspect, makes it easy to lose and misplace and disregard.

    It's difficult to get this sense of heft for digital thoughts. I wanted go experiment with that a bit using treemaps, but I'm not quite there yet. Spatial relationships are interesting too. I used to lay out index card sketches. Maybe I'll learn how to use Noteful or similar apps to get a handle on a larger topic by using sketched and hyperlinked maps…

  • On learning the terminology - quote from "How did you know to do that?" on avdi.codes (toot)

    Learning the terminology is an important step that people struggle with. Communities help with that.

    Just as an example: I've realized that when I'm studying a problem, I rely a lot on “second-order Googling”. That's a process whereby I don't try to discover a solution in a single search. Instead, in my first few searches, I just try to find other people talking about the problem area, using my own naïve description of the task at hand.

    Then, once I discover some conversations that are taking place among people experienced in that domain, I read over them looking for the specific terminology that I had missed. Once I have the terminology, I'm able to use it to compose much more focused searches that usually lead me directly to the answer I'm looking for.

  • On each person shaping Emacs to fit them - quote from BSAG » On the 'Emacs From Scratch' cycle (toot)

    It struck me the other day that there is probably more variation and diversity among different users' Emacs configurations than among the configurations of any other editor. Users are able to change almost any aspect of the way that Emacs functions, with easy access to clear documentation explaining how it works right now, and how you can change it. This means that each instance of Emacs ends up a unique shape, like an old tool with a wooden handle worn down into the shape of its owners' habitual grasp. That simile doesn't quite work, because Emacs users work hard and deliberately to shape their Emacs tools to fit their needs, so it is more than just passive wear.

  • What lights you up? quote from "Little p purpose" – Butterfly Mind (toot)

    Jordan Grumet, the guest on the podcast, addresses this worry. He distinguishes between big P Purpose and little p purpose. Purpose with a big P is the one that gets me, and apparently a lot of people, stressed. It feels like, “Why am I here? What am I meant to do?” It induces anxiety if we want to find Purpose but don't know where to look. Little p purpose, though, does not ask “why?”; it doesn't examine the reason for our existence. Instead it asks, “what lights you up?”

  • On tagging posts with the people you got the ideas from - quote from "Early web influencers" | smays.com (toot) I hadn't considered using tags to tag people's names in blog posts before, but the way it's used in this post is neat. I clocked in the link for Nikol Lohr and saw a series of posts related to that person's thoughts. Interesting.

    This entry was posted in Internet and tagged Bruce Sterling, Chris Pirillo, Clay Shirky, Dan Gillmor, Dave Winer, David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Douglas Coupland, Douglas Rushkoff, Halley Suitt, Hugh MacLeod, Jakob Nielsen, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin Kelly, Mark Cuban, Mark Ramsey, Nikol Lohr, Scott Adams, Seth Godin, Steve Outing, Steven Levy, Terry Heaton, Tom Peters

  • On the connection between reading and writing - quote from "The more I read" - Dan Cullum (toot)

    There is a strong correlation between the amount I’m reading, and the ideas I have for this blog. When I’m reading a lot, I feel like I have ideas coming out my eyes.

  • On books - quote from "The Lost Art of Research as Leisure" by Mariam Mahmoud (toot)

    Writing nearly 350 years earlier, Galileo had declared books “the seal of all the admirable inventions of mankind,” because books allow us to communicate through time and place, and to speak to those “who are not yet born and will not be born for a thousand or ten thousand years.”

    Reminds me of the Great Conversation described in Adler and van Doren's How to Read a Book.

  • Toronto Public Library workers vote resoundingly in favour of strike | Canadian Union of Public Employees (toot)

    Toronto Public Library workers have given their union a strong strike mandate in ongoing contract negotiations with the Toronto Public Library. The workers, represented by CUPE 4948, held a strike vote over the weekend with a historic turnout, where over 96 per cent voted in favour of authorizing the union to take strike action if necessary.

    … CUPE 4948 and the Toronto Public Library have multiple bargaining dates scheduled throughout March. The union remains focused on securing a contract that includes inflation-adjusted wage increases, solutions to chronic understaffing and workplace violence, improved working conditions, and stronger benefits.

    CUPE 4948's Instagram has a few videos from librarians explaining issues around short staffing, precarious work, and other things the union wants to improve.

    The library is one of my favourite parts of Toronto. Librarians are awesome. I want them to feel safe and appreciated. I hope they can come to a good agreement!

  • On solitude - quote from "How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul" – The Marginalian (toot)

    Thomas Merton, quoted in the Marginalian:

    The solitary is one who is aware of solitude in himself as a basic and inevitable human reality, not just as something which affects him as an isolated individual. Hence his solitude is the foundation of a deep, pure and gentle sympathy with all other men, whether or not they are capable of realizing the tragedy of their plight.

  • The beginnings of an information workflow - toot

    The beginnings of an information workflow: read on my iPad (bigger screen than my phone, easier to carry around the house than my laptop); share interesting tidbits to Chrome on my phone; share a quote and maybe a thought via Tusky (includes reasonably readable link to context, might spark further conversation); collect those from my GoToSocial instance and archive them in a blog post or Org Mode notes, keeping track of ideas I want to connect or flesh out further

  • On solitude - quote from 'Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on the Art of Presence and the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You Are' – The Marginalian (toot) On Virginia Woolf:

    In Moments of Being (public library) — the posthumous collection of her autobiographical writings — she writes:

    A great part of every day is not lived consciously. One walks, eats, sees things, deals with what has to be done; the broken vacuum cleaner; ordering dinner; writing orders to Mabel; washing; cooking dinner; bookbinding. When it is a bad day the proportion of non-being is much larger.

    In her 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway — part love letter to these moments of being, part lamentation about the proportion of non-being we choose without knowing we are choosing — she locates the key to righting the ratio in “the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”

  • On curiosity - quote from "The Hypercuriosity Theory of ADHD" (toot) A+ and I both have strong interest-based focus, which means classwork might be tricky. Fortunately, I can use my interest in helping her grow to help me Learn All the Things so I can advocate for her and help her figure out her brain. Might be ADHD, might be something else, but it's probably a good idea to work with it instead of trying to squish it into something that it's not.

    Given that high trait curiosity might be a strength in ADHD, interventions could focus on harnessing this natural tendency rather than trying to suppress it.

    For instance, AI-assisted tools have shown promise in providing personalized learning experiences for individuals with ADHD, allowing them to engage with material in ways that capitalize on their natural curiosity. Game-based learning has also demonstrated positive effects on engagement and interest, particularly in subjects like mathematics. The Montessori classroom model, which is designed to foster curiosity, has shown promising results—students with ADHD in Montessori settings exhibit more actively engaged on-task behaviors compared to traditional classroom settings. Lastly, outdoor socially-oriented activities have been associated with higher levels of curiosity.

  • On emotional support, parenting, and gold stars - quote from "Free! Live discussion about autism Nov. 13, 7pm ET" - Penelope Trunk (toot) I came across Penelope Trunk's blog again after many years of not regularly reading RSS feeds (aside from the blogs about Emacs, of course).

    This quote resonated:

    But parents have messed up view of what emotional support is, because parents want gold stars for parenting. So the support most parents give is to steer the kid to get gold stars. Parents mistake helping a kid get gold stars for helping a kid feel loved."

    Our kid is 9, bored at school, and procrastinates homework. I know what that's like because I was like that too. (I think she's doing better than I did.) I've been working on fretting less. Pushing her to get the work done and check those checkboxes might not be in her best interest anyhow.

  • On side notes / footnotes - toot

    I like this use of side notes/footnotes at https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/ . Footnotes use letters to distinguish them from numbered references, and are duplicated as side notes on large screens. I also like the “Show buttons that expand the side note” or “Include side notes after the paragraph on small screens” approaches on other sites.

  • Sketchnoting Science: How to Make Sketchnotes from Technical Content | NIST (toot)

    Enjoyed the examples of technical sketchnotes in https://www.nist.gov/publications/sketchnoting-science-how-make-sketchnotes-technical-content , found via https://www.sketchnotelab.com/p/sketchnote-lab-dispatch-march-2025

Time:

Category The other week % Last week % Diff % h/wk Diff h/wk
Discretionary - Productive 10.4 19.2 8.7 32.4 14.7
Personal 6.9 9.4 2.5 15.9 4.2
Business 0.9 1.7 0.8 2.9 1.4
Discretionary - Play 0.5 1.2 0.6 2.0 1.1
Discretionary - Social 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Discretionary - Family 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Sleep 33.8 33.7 -0.2 56.9 -0.3
Unpaid work 3.5 3.3 -0.2 5.5 -0.4
A- 43.9 31.6 -12.3 53.4 -20.6

More piano and writing this week, and less childcare because March Break is over.

Next week: settling into more reading, writing, and drawing.

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Weekly review: Week ending January 8, 2025

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  • I sent a small patch for image-dired and default-directory to emacs-devel, and that was merged.
  • I looked into using Galene, and my patch for requiring enabled devices before unmuting was merged.
  • I reviewed the EmacsConf 2024 YouTube comments so far, and I wrote some code for collecting them and maybe even doing a mail-merge.
  • I edited and posted my which-key-replacement-alist video.
  • I added the new tag support to my sketch viewer and sketch processor.
  • I played around with splitting and correcting transcripts based on splits.
  • I tweaked emacs.tv to search tags and speakers too.

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Weekly review: Two weeks ending December 11, 2024

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This post covers the week ending Dec 4 and the week ending Dec 11, since it was a bit of a rush leading up to EmacsConf.

  • EmacsConf 2024 went well, hooray! Here are some of my journal entries over the past two weeks:
    • I worked on the BigBlueButton server some more. I used Spookfox to automate Firefox from Emacs Lisp so that I could add moderator codes to all the BBB rooms. That way, speakers can let themselves in if needed, since we might be understaffed. (Might need to ask the mailing list if anyone wants to volunteer to host, which is mostly reading out questions and making conversation.) I also updated the Tampermonkey script so that the user in the VNC session will be able to join the web conference automatically.
    • I added shell scripts to copy the BBB redirect files so that I can easily do that by hand in case I don't get the automation sorted out again over the next week.
    • Livestreaming to Toobnix seems to be iffy at the moment, so I'll just focus on 480p and YouTube. I'll probably end up manually copying and pasting the stream keys for each event, so I've added them to the shift checklists to make that easier for myself.
    • I confirmed crontab and publishing still worked, and I processed some last-minute submissions. I also sent the check-in emails and fixed my email delivery verification.

    • 2024-12-08T00:40:59.681Z

      #emacsconf day 1 wasn't 100% smooth, but it was 100% fun, and people rerouted around all of the tech hiccups. I think we've figured out the color issue (needed to update mpv from 0.35 to 0.38), I updated my scripts to take the video files from the cache directory instead of other directories that I forgot to update, updated the checklist to have the right URLs, enabled case-fold-search on the other Emacs, and added random package mentions to the countdown screen. I forgot to let zaeph know I edited one of the videos, so next time I should flag that somehow. I'm not 100% sure about our BBB setup; a couple of people's computers crashed. On the plus side, this year, sooo many people helped out with captions and quality checks. Improving little by little! :D The important stuff got done: people got to see things and chat with other people!

    • The second day of EmacsConf went pretty well! We managed to handle a couple of last-minute uploads.
    • I processed the EmacsConf Q&As to add chapter indices and correct a number of misrecognized words. I also copied comments from of IRC and YouTube.
    • I modified the VTT separator regexp for subed.el.

    • swapping roles 2024-12-08T02:34:12.554Z

      I had a lot of fun watching Leo Vivier, Corwin Brust, and FlowyCoder fluidly swap roles as needed during #emacsconf . It was like professional jugglers dancing, one tossing a ball up in the air, the other shifting into place to catch it, the third getting the next ones lined up so things keep moving smoothly.

    • I dropped by Lispy Gopher Show again to chat about Emacs, Emacs Lisp, and EmacsConf with screwtape.

      @screwtape I imagine it could be useful to have a smart radio object that could tell someone how many minutes until your next show and where to listen to it (saves us from UTC conversions); do the same for other anonradio shows; search for a keyword in your archives (even just the descriptions); and maybe even allow other people to contribute a note that can be reviewed and included in the archive description for an episode

    • Q&A update 2024-12-12T14:48:25.451Z

      Yay, I've copied the rest of the comments from IRC and YouTube to the #EmacsConf talk pages, so speakers will be able to review them in one go. I've also copied some sections out of the transcripts for quick answers. I might send the speakers the thanks email with the discussion and main talk video links, but without links to the Q&A videos yet.

      BigBlueButton audio mixing was as usual a bit of a challenge, with some participants quiet and some participants louder. BBB saves only mixed audio. It would be nice to see if I can get separate audio recordings next year by configuring https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/12302 , but that sounds a little complicated. Instead of taking over the task of messing with the audio in the current recordings (which I tend to flub because I don't have the patience for it :) ), I can leave space for other people to do things. Instead, I can focus on the other tasks I've been procrastinating. :)

  • Life:
    • A- felt that the Outschool club was worth keeping because she likes the people.
    • We all practised shinny at High Park. Nice! A- and I worked on our stops once it was time to move over to the leisure skate area. We've also skated even though there was a light drizzle.
    • W- enjoyed helping out with the Bike Brigade.
    • A+'s CCAT scores qualified her for the next step in the TDSB gifted identification process. I've been trying to figure out what this could look like for us. There's probably no gifted program for virtual school, so it might look much like what we've already got. We've been talking about how to adapt to systems that are designed for other people. At the moment, it seems to work better for her if I sit with her during boring parts of class and help her explore things like coding with Python (or help her get her homework out of the way), so I don't have much focused time myself. It's important to us that she feels good about learning and that she learns how to work with/around systems, so spending that time is worthwhile. It just means that I have to be strategic about what I do.
Time
Category The other week % Last week % Diff % h/wk Diff h/wk
Discretionary - Productive 7.6 26.3 18.8 44.3 31.5
Business 0.2 1.6 1.4 2.7 2.3
Discretionary - Play 0.0 0.6 0.6 1.0 1.0
Discretionary - Social 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Discretionary - Family 0.9 0.0 -0.9 0.0 -1.6
Personal 8.3 6.9 -1.4 11.6 -2.4
Unpaid work 4.3 0.9 -3.4 1.5 -5.7
Sleep 35.0 29.4 -5.6 49.4 -9.4
A- 43.6 34.2 -9.4 57.5 -15.8
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Wednesday weblog: week ending November 20, 2024

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  • Reflection on writing style - 2024-11-18T00:44:18.080Z

    I notice that I have a lot more fun writing tiny workflow tweaks (mostly #Emacs ) and sharing them on my blog versus, say, insightful reflections developed over a longer period of time. I think it's the payoff of being able to enjoy those tweaks. Sometimes abstract thoughts help me come to realizations that I can then try to use to change my concrete behaviours, but it's a lot less straightforward.

    Also, I notice that I prefer to write with a curious, exploratory tone instead of an authoritative one, which is probably also related to my focus on "I" rather than "you". Kinda like: here's what I'm experimenting with, sharing in case it's helpful (and also because I want to be able to find it again), everyone's different and that's awesome, curious about what works for you. :) I'm glad other people can pull off being authoritative/persuasive, though.

    23+ years #blogging and still learning more!

  • Sketchnote blogs - 2024-11-17T18:19:47.826Z

    I'm surprised by how few active blogs I could find about #sketchnotes (or had a category feed for sketchnotes). It's mostly rohdesign and Verbal to Visual, I think. Sketchnote Army still comes out with episodes, but the posts themselves don't seem to be very visual, so people have to click through to the person's website. I guess a lot of people are on Instagram, but that doesn't seem to support RSS any more, and I'm not really keen on scrolling through that. Ah well!

  • dark mode sketch filter - 2024-11-14T13:41:01.165Z

    I tweaked my dark-mode sketch CSS rule thanks to stefanvdwalt's comment. Now I've got 

      @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  .sketch-full img, .gallery img, .left-doodle, .right-doodle,
  .center-doodle { filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) brightness(150%)
  contrast(0.9); }
  }

    Updated: https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/11/using-a-coloured-template-on-my-supernote-a5x/

  • Researched BBB hosting options and compared the costs with self-hosting on Linode.
  • Checked the shell scripts to make sure that hosts can start the videos by using shortcuts.

Quotes

  • Excerpts from Rebecca Solnit's "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" (2006) - 2024-11-19T12:52:11.878Z

    One of the books that has just arrived from the library is "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" (Rebecca Solnit, 2006), which was recommended to me by @janoli .

    Here are some snippets that have resonated with me so far:

    p5. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration–how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

    p10. and there's another art of being at home in the unknown, so that being in its midst isn't cause for panic or suffering, of being at home with being lost.

    p14. The historian Aaron Sachs, about explorers: "In my opinion, their most important skill was simply a sense of optimism about surviving and finding their way."

    p80. Even in the everyday world of the present, an anxiety to survive manifests itself in cars and clothes for far more rugged occasions than those at hand, as though to express some sense of the toughness of things and of readiness to face them. But the real difficulties, the real arts of survival, seem to lie in more subtle realms. There, what's called for is a kind of resilience of the psyche, a readiness to deal with what comes next.

    p99. Probably it had its origins in protective urges, but it had gone sour long ago.

  • Excerpts from Bill Watterson's speech at Kenyon College in 1990 - 2024-11-19T12:19:15.286Z

    Thanks to @kims for sharing Bill Watterson's speech at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class (https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html)

    This section particularly resonated with me: "Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth."

    I also appreciated his resistance to commercializing Calvin & Hobbes:
    "Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.
    The so-called 'opportunity' I faced would have meant giving up my individual voice for that of a money-grubbing corporation. It would have meant my purpose in writing was to sell things, not say things. My pride in craft would be sacrificed to the efficiency of mass production and the work of assistants. Authorship would become committee decision. Creativity would become work for pay. Art would turn into commerce. In short, money was supposed to supply all the meaning I'd need.
    What the syndicate wanted to do, in other words, was turn my comic strip into everything calculated, empty and robotic that I hated about my old job. They would turn my characters into television hucksters and T-shirt sloganeers and deprive me of characters that actually expressed my own thoughts."

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Wednesday weblog: Week ending 2024-11-06

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I used to write weekly reviews. Nudged by Doing weeknotes, I want to get back to doing them. I'm still figuring out how I'd like to put these notes together as part of a weekly review process picking up some stuff from my blog posts, toots, Org inbox, and journal entries. That way, I can revisit fleeting notes and flesh them out a little more, notice and celebrate progress, and radiate intent.

Do I want to leave it on Wednesdays (chosen for its alliteration with weblog, with no particular deep thought about it) or go back to Fridays like before? Wednesdays might be a good idea, actually, since I might still be able to schedule some tasks for Thursday and Friday.

Anyway, over the last seven days:

  • EmacsConf:
    • Improved the Makefile we use in EmacsConf so that it detects the prefixes from the original files in the directory and builds various intermediate files (reencoded.webm, opus, vtt, normalized opus, main.webm).
    • While the kiddo was at an extracurricular activity, I listened to talks for the upcoming EmacsConf and annotated transcript PDFs so that I can edit the captions later. It was very enjoyable and something I could do with gloves on, which was great because the weather's getting pretty cool. I'm looking forward to using pdf view to flip through the exported annotations in Emacs. Yay! (toot)
    • Processed lots of talks and captions.
    • Wrote some code to skim the starts of subtitles to check the timing.
    • Got Icecast, OBS, and Emacs set up for the upcoming conference, and I disabled screenlock in our i3 config.
    • Still haven't been able to fix bbb.emacsverse.org. I've asked Corwin to look into Galene. I think meet.jit.si might not be solid enough for us (potentially throttling issues like several years ago).
  • Other Emacs stuff:
    • Wrote a function for storing a link to a blog post from the Org subtree for it. (my-org-store-blog-post-link in Linking to blog posts).
    • Experimented with moving lines around for fixing the text conversion of sketches, but I think it feels like more work than just retyping.
    • Figured out that I needed to set :comments no on the Org source block that had ;; lexical-binding: t on it. (toot)
    • Used org-html-htmlize-generate-css to export CSS from Modus Vivendi to use as my dark-mode colours
  • Other tech:
  • Life:
    • Read Tiny Habits and made sketchnotes. I also listened to a podcast on The Feel-Good Method of Productivity, which touched on some of the same points about joy and celebration. (toot)
    • A thought as things become more tangled: Here are some of the things I am working on learning as I grow up: how to navigate uncertainty with curiosity, how to use conflicts to figure out priorities, how to face regrets with acceptance, and how to transform grief into an even fiercer love.
    • Parent-teacher interview and progress report: A+ is doing well. No exemption from synchronous learning this year. Oh well. We'll just have to figure out how to work with the system for now, or decide when it's not working well enough for A+.

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Weekly review: Week ending January 7, 2022

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  • Emacs:
    • Woohoo! I got undercover, coverage, and buttercup working together for subed. I also changed subed to use the major-mode specifier for the generic methods.
    • I added the BBB questions for the Turbo Bindat talk, and I checked if I missed any other BBB chats.
    • Yay, Indium still worked! I could interactively debug my eleventy Javascript, which was a great help.
  • Other:
    • We made cat beds out of cardboard boxes, fabric, and foam.

Blog posts

Time
Category The other week % Last week % Diff % h/wk Diff h/wk
Sleep 36.3 40.1 3.9 67.5 6.5
Discretionary - Play 0.0 0.7 0.7 1.1 1.1
Discretionary - Family 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.5
A- 40.2 40.3 0.1 67.6 0.1
Business 0.7 0.2 -0.6 0.3 -0.9
Discretionary - Productive 9.1 8.5 -0.6 14.2 -1.0
Personal 6.6 5.7 -0.9 9.6 -1.6
Unpaid work 7.1 4.3 -2.8 7.2 -4.7
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Weekly review: Week ending December 31, 2021

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  • I learned how to use Krita to make a simple animation.
  • I tried out Krita's recorder. I like that it can record the whole drawing at full resolution.
  • I ordered 16GB of memory for my laptop, since I'm likely to hang on to this one for at least another year.
  • I think I've finished the patch for adjusting subtitle overlaps.
  • I learned how to use xdescribe in Buttercup to disable lots of tests at once.
  • I added cropping to compile-media.

Blog posts

Sketches

Time
Category The other week % Last week % Diff % h/wk Diff h/wk
Sleep 31.1 36.3 5.1 60.9 8.6
A- 37.6 40.2 2.6 67.5 4.3
Unpaid work 4.6 7.1 2.5 11.9 4.2
Discretionary - Family 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Discretionary - Social 0.5 0.0 -0.5 0.0 -0.8
Discretionary - Play 0.8 0.0 -0.8 0.0 -1.4
Business 3.3 0.7 -2.6 1.2 -4.3
Personal 9.5 6.6 -2.9 11.2 -4.8
Discretionary - Productive 12.6 9.1 -3.5 15.3 -5.8
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