…. Relocated and it's taken me for ever to settle in but here I am. Left my computer cable behind and it has no battery so that's kept me back for a while among other reasons. I'm typing this out on a 13 year old Surface Tablet running Debian 12. Yes, Linux on a Microsoft tab. Any how, straight to business.

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Last Week In Code E010 & Last Week in Cyprus

I like how the series' name somehow saw this coming. I had no idea the same acronym to mean what happened last week in my world of code I was going to be able to use for refrence to my 'last week in Cyprus'. Which, it now is. How cool… !

So what was I doing this week? Well, like the week before the last one, not much. A lot of packing and prep for my next destination. I should be writing my next update from there. I'm guessing you too notice that's a very long time not actively programming. And I notice too. I am actually starting to feel the toll of it. But settling I hope should some how fix that.

3 months old is it? Last week in code episode 9. How coool!. So what was flying last week? Well, I was out on holiday so there wasn't much coding going on.

However, that time off gave me space to reflect on a number of issues. Some of which I'd like to share about.

Wait, is that 8 weeks??! Yaay!! Interesting how few 56 days can turn out to be. I didn't see this coming this far. Anyways. What has been rolling since the last post?

A lot. Reshaping this site's structure to match my mind's as I mentioned I would in lwic e006. Started producing 'content'. Posted some of that on my instagram channel. I think there was no coding at all. Still, there was a lot of learning worth sharing. Let's get to that.

Its interesting how fast time flies. Its already 7 weeks? A whole 49 days or so since the first episode.

So, I spent last week building small apps and writing. Reading and writing as usual. And erm.. yeah. I learnt quite a lot from that. Here, I'll share.

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.