“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.” — Epictetus, The Art of Living
I like Nikola’s pretty URLs feature and have been using it at the personal site. And after a year of prettiness there and .html here, I decided to switch this site to use it too. All my urls look nice now :) Which also means all the old links are now broken. And so, the last bit of work was to redirect all the links in the wild and on the blog to the new addresses ...
Another James Clear pick today. How do you make it easier on yourself to say no? To stick to that diet? To stop goofing off and buckle down and study or work? Because, The ability to overcome temptation and effectively say no is critical not only to your physical health, but also to maintaining a sense of well–being and control in your mental health. We do this, by assertion rather than denying ourselves day in and day out. Not that I can’t do this. Just that I don’t. I am a person who eats good food. So I don’t eat junk food. I am a person who wants to be a programmer. So I don’t browse the web aimlessly all day. I am a person who wants his mind in his control all the time. So I don’t drink. ...
genRSS is a Python 2 app. Make sure you switch your environment. python genrss.py --help will give you everything else you need.
Or how do you actually go do anything else you committed to do for yourself? I always got confused on what to do when the going got tough and life happened and my goals then got waylaid. Other than feeling lost and giving up on projects and promising to do better tomorrow, or next time? (which took a looooooong time to come) What could I do? James Clear offers a lovely heuristic, that I have been applying to my writing since the year began. (along with Seth’s advice to queue things up) ...
I want to be the Neil Gaiman of programming. To be able to write across multiple genres, yet retaining my distinctive voice.1 The links are all just books. I haven’t even considered his work in film and games. ↩︎