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Lazy Bastard

Really struggling to focus on side projects at the moment. No energy to do anything. This time of the year…

Lazy

Right now it is stupidly hot. Hard to focus on anything.

Coding

I forgot how fun leetcode style problems can be when you are just solving them for fun and not interviews or punishing interview training. I am doing the Advent of Code 2020 and I am on 100% so far and still enjoying it.

Reverse New Years manifesto

The path most people take is to make their New Years resolutions and then fail to keep them in February. I’m going to try and go the other way this time and start doing them now and continue once I get to January. Today it is ensuring I have committed my code and written more than a text to a rando. Also Advent of Code again. I need to up my leetcode game to prove I am still down with the kids in startup land.

Peace out.

Better late than never

Still getting caught up in my own bullshit rather than finishing things. I’ve been doing lots of real world projects (holes, water, animals, that kind of thing) and less tech projects. Still finishing more than none but I am really struggling to focus on anything at the moment. Over the weekend I vowed to change that and through force of will I am here, after work, while exhausted and doing some ML. Amazing.

Hey, look, a wild status has appeared

Lockdown really isn’t the most conductive for me finishing things. I have started a lot of things, I just haven’t finished many of them. It is all a trap. I am feeling pretty swamped at the moment while also being more relaxed and focused than I have been in a long time. I am developing new skills and reviving old ones but still feeling like I am just wasting time, an insane paradox.

I’ve been developing a streaming ML application which is why there are suddenly commits on my profile again. The stack is a bit insane, probably over-engineered. Kafka (mainly for playback), InfluxDB (dashboards, yo), python, scala, k3s and a few different APIs. The idea is to have the whole thing as async microservices that produce valid user feedback at the end. So far, so good. It is a bit of a complex setup but the pieces are simple to understand and functionally isolated which suits me from both a software engineering perspective and an ML perspective (different parts can be easily worked on in isolation and all parts stand-alone if needed). Watch this space.

What in the what

I’ve been quiet. I’m sure I am not the only one. Big Rona has been lurking around ruining economies and the like. I’ve still got a job though. Even managed to find some coins to repair my abode and put power generation on it. Other than that I have been pretty quiet. Still working, and being busy. I don’t really know where my time is going at the moment, I am getting a lot done but not getting a lot done at the same time. Paradoxical productivity.

For now it is just a short howdy do. I am planning to do things with another site I own very soon and making that into a kind of side hustle.

Edit: I probably should add that I have been mostly sticking to my goals. I have had 7 tasks that I aim to do at least something on each day. Generally, I am hitting 4-5 each day but I’ll have a post with some stats soon.

Captain's log

Stardate 2020-03-25, working from home by myself has been quiet. Very, very quiet. So quiet sometimes I have to tell myself to stop breathing so loud. It really is strange, this forced isolation business.

On the plus side, it has given me a lot of time to think. About what’s important and a lot about things that are really not important at all. Other than intellectually being pulled in many directions at once it has really made me sit down (mostly standing) and think about what I really want to be doing. I have compiled quiet the list, and culled a substantial amount more. I am focused now on creation and on longer term goals (like being capable of pushing the FIRE button in 2035). I now think I have some idea how I want to spend my hours and the things I need to do to get there. I’ve also been back into music, and not only listening to it really loudly in the company of my own study but on producing it too. I am feeling creative and strong. I have come closer to getting to my personal fitness goals (at least my short term goals) and I am feeling great. Now, I need to focus on my intellectual and financial goals. Take active steps to get to where I want to be and doing the things I want to do to get there. I feel very driven.

Everything is canceled

So now I am working from home indefinitely and everything has been canceled. How bout you?