2019-08-21 Started with the problem, Need to take in an md file and then generate an html file. Hint given, use a package from PyPI. Decided to use the Markdown package from PyPI. Looks good to me. Was advised to work off a branch while developing. Thank God for friends who teach you good habits. Looking up how to do that in git now. Watched Git videos for about an hour. Learnt lots about branches. Giving up for today. it’s 8 in the eve and i am tired. ...
Decided to pull the plug on the Do the Work blog. While I wanted to use it for my tiny, crazy, work in progress thoughts, I find that it was increasingly being subsumed by my new shiny Mastodon. And as the volume of things I write now scales up, I do not want another place to maintain. I’ve migrated all my posts here. Will use this blog for the long and medium stuff going forward. And the short, ooh shiny stuff is on my Mastodon account. Read the kooky struggle there, and if you want a social account that does not do evil things to you, get an account yourself. ...
1. You take, this here list. 2. Chew on it. 3. And spit it out, just like a cow. I reposted this, because I called comprehensions, expressions in the older post. Sorry!
Ok, really thrilled today. Patting myself on the back. I finally managed to write a program all on my ownsome. Kushal gave me a toy problem and I went around, scratched my head, did a lot of searching, a lot more headbanging, even more mistakes and then finally managed to write this. Am happy because this is how I imagined myself learning in the first place. Figuring out a problem someone has and then figuring out how to help them. ...
Seeing as you folks are reading my newsletter, I know I am preaching to the choir, but this article, summarises my thoughts on social media excellently! from the Art of Manliness, At first, it wasn’t so bad. But then I started noticing that I wasn’t seeing all the updates from pages I followed on Facebook. Come to find out, Facebook started changing their News Feed algorithm so that only the content Facebook thought you’d be interested in the most showed up in your feed. Facebook claimed they were just trying to help users sift through the firehose of information being blasted at them. Critics argued Facebook was just trying to keep people more engaged on Facebook because that makes money for Facebook. And that they were trying to force pages to pay money for their content to show up in the News Feeds they had once shown up in organically. I was just ticked that I wasn’t seeing all the stuff from Facebook pages that I had deliberately opted into getting updates from. ...
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” ...