What I Learned Today (11th of February, 2023)

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 14:42:56 +0530

Rest day! Not doing much!

Emacs
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It works! Yesterday’s little hack, to clock in and out when I change state works well! It doesn’t seem to have broken anything.
Also I added a WORKING state, and tagged my function to that. The clock in and out happen when I switch in an out of the WORKING state. Because I want my parent task to show IN_PROGRESS and the current subtask to be what I am working on. Like so …

** IN_PROGRESS Emacs
*** WORKING Learn about Org
*** TODO Write about what you learnt

Here’s an image of an actual task …

Except for one more thing.¹
When I switch another task to WORKING, it does clock me out of the old task, but it leaves the TODO state at WORKING. I want the old task to switch to WAITING. I’ll look at doing this as soon as I get some breathing time.

Devops
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Spoke to a friend about some how and what and why for close to an hour
Helped me clear my mind lots!

Urdu
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Did “toey” and “zoey”
Did I mention three letters for the same S sound yesterday?
Ha! Z has four! Zaal, Ze, Zuaad & Zoey
Also tutor’s note:

the word “zan” (ज़न) when written with ‘zoey’ means “presumption” whereas, the same word, when written with a ‘ze’ instead, means “woman”.

Which means? Lots of practice and reading ahead :)
Also coming from the madness that is English, I keep telling myself, this is not so bad 😂
Like Lizzo doing crack.

Physical Fitness
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Rest day!

Thoughts
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The meta need / theme of learning and working, as I am doing now, is that I need to work to a time budget
- Here’s the problem, try and solve it in an hour (or whatever time I budget)
I need to have no shame if I cannot get it done
I need to ask for help / look up solutions faster
I also need to budget the time to understand the solutions.
- If I cannot fix it one day and the solution is taking time to “get”, be ok with spending time the next day
It’s just me. There is no one else. There is no need to pressure myself more than necessary.
Work to the spec. Generalising (at least for now) is taboo. Now, I understand what my friends tell me about me perfectionism. I keep spending way too long about what if this? and what if that? I need to get something working first. Refine / expand / refactor it later
Get better at logging times
Get better at taking breaks between tasks
Writing these logs has helped gain insight and understanding. I need to keep at it. It’ll help with the “what now? what next?” questions

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What I Learned Today (4th of February, 2023)

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 21:26:59 +0530

A week in! Woohoo!

Python
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Exercised with dictionaries today.
Today was the first time, I could not solve my assignment, no matter what I tried.
Lessons learnt:
- Stick to a schedule and do hard stops, since Python is only a small part of what I want to learn
- Learn to quit sooner. I’m like a dog with a bone, when it comes to problems. This approach may have helped me in the past, but it hinders me a lot, when writing code.

Urdu
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Did the ‘re’ group of letters
Exercised with the ‘re’ and ‘daal’ groups
I’m learning the alphabet, using the wonderful Aamozish website, in case you folks have been confused about what I was doing with the language.

Webdev
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Watched Webhooks for Beginners
Sooner or later, I want to customise my dinky little Huginn instance to do a lot more.
This’ll come in handy then.

Physical Fitness
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Today was the first day, gym felt a wee bit normal.
Hope this positive phase continues …

Thoughts
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I seem to have got into a good work rhythm.
Next step seems to prioritise my work and do more of what is needed, to get me a devops job.

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