WeeklySeries

Its E006. YAY. It has been a week and a half. I spent most of it doing archival work. The last part of the week I sunk into setting up mediawiki. I did some interview prep type questions also and I uploaded some of the solutions. But that wasn't as serious as the archival tasks.

I am preparing to change locations. I am not so sure about my new location's internet efficiency or its affordability. So I think I will so much need to have local access to critical information sources. As usual, the whole process and other small tasks I did taught me certain things I'd like to record right here, for sharing and future reference.

It’s LWIC E005! Cool. So I was AFK for a huge proportion of last week. But for the later half of it (which was Thursday up until Sunday), I spent most of my time reading and making notes with not so much programming. And as usual, there is always experiences to share. Not so much though since I only had half a week.

The Elevated Confidence From Documenting Understanding

I eventually got to write an article on Baye’s theorem. It was a simple one as, that was my aim: to make a seemingly hard to understand topic simple. Most of the lessons from this task, I mentioned in last week’s update. But I think there’s parts of the experience that I hadn’t felt fully yet. I’ll share what I learnt from those.

It’s four weeks already! I spent most of last week writing. I mean, I did give time to other projects beyond writing too but it was mostly writing. I thought I had quite a lot to write about and that I was going to produce as much. But that’s not really what happened. I only wrote 3 articles. There was some lessons to learn from that still. And I’ll share those.

I like self hosting but have not yet gotten a hosting service to stick to so I have to go through the whole reinstall process every time I switch operating systems. Yes, I run my apps on my PC. So I spent most of the past week setting up some applications. I set up Navidrome for my music server, Firefly III for financial management and Jellyfin for managing my movies and tv shows collection. I also played around some with Snapcast but then learnt how much I’d have to read before I’d be able to use it like a craftsman. So I dropped it.

Last week I decided I’d be going on an AI fast. Listed what services AI was providing me with then tried to get alt providers. For the mindless AI usage, I think the underlying cause was boredom, then outright addiction to the solution. I chose to use that time for a better addiction. An addiction to reading tech blogs. I’ve heard about Hacker News before but I’d never read much from the website. Well I discovered its way more than I thought. Which wasn’t much really. But that changed this week.

I find I always have a whole lot to talk about at the end of every week. And that most of it is from the tech space. I attend this Software Club meeting every Thursday where I try to use some of that time to talk about the latest developments with people who get it. We exchange opinions on things we’re building. You know how that is. So I was like, how about I create something here that’ll be an outlet for that? So I did. Like many things I’ve started, I can’t be sure this will last. But I won’t try to preemptively kill it either. May the Force be with it. This week, I’m shipping the skeleton and letting the structure emerge naturally as I pump in more episodes. My consumption is personal, so what I include might skew toward my interests. Beware :)