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Hopepunk for 2019

Dec 31, 2018 (Updated Feb 16, 2019)

Marginalia · personal ·

Writing these late night thoughts is as close as I get to making resolutions.

On Modesty And Imposter Syndrome

Oct 21, 2018

Marginalia · personal ·

Take a deep breath. Relax. You got this.

Two Weeks Without Cigarettes

Jun 10, 2018

Marginalia · personal ·

I stopped smoking cigarettes two weeks ago. For now I vape instead. Time to put down some notes about what other habits I had to adjust.

Geekish Update

Mar 28, 2017

Marginalia · personal · site ·

I set up a space for myself in the basement. This is now where I keep my desktop - running Ubuntu at the moment. Easy enough to get at from the laptop upstairs. Maybe keep Irssi running in a Tmux session or something.

Maybe Ration My Time In Hot Take Land

Mar 13, 2017 (Updated Mar 15, 2017)

Marginalia · personal ·

I dunno, folks. Over the years I have seen so much outrage - sincere or feigned - on social media. Then there’s the echo chamber problem. Yeah. Nice thing about an RSS feed is that I’m guaranteed to see everything I subscribe to, but there’s no personal insult in unsubscribing.

I think maybe I could spend less time on Twitter and Facebook. Not give them up. They remain a source of great conversation. But this nonsense takes up brain that I just can’t spare. Some of my online friends cut themselves out completely, and they like it. Perhaps I should follow their example. Besides, each of them that moves on means one less bit of signal in the noise.

There is so much noise.

Starting The Coursera Programming Languages Course

Oct 3, 2014

Marginalia · personal ·

I signed up for the Programming Languages course by Coursera. I may even complete it. See, I signed up for a Scala course earlier this year, but did not get past the first video. That made me sad. Scala is one of those things that I would like to learn.