Guess I’ll call it a day, learning Vim. Done about 16 hours1 of Vim reading and practice. The rest of the 4 hours will come from daily Vim use now. Have begun to use it for darn near everything. Can move about with slight ease and copy & paste with lots of unease. Practice makes perfect, I suppose. Plan for the day, since I’m home sick? Well I’m a gonna swing for the fences and finish the Lutz book. ...
Plan: Start doing 20 hours of VIM. Finish another Lutz chapter. Will update progress by days’ end. Updates: 2pm. Got myself a VIM Anki deck. 10pm. Sadly no Lutz today. Practiced Vim all day. Finished Painless Vim. Changed my theme. Recomposed this post in Vim Changed my terminal editor from code to vim, so that all new posts will now be “Vim Powered!”
It’s been 40 days and somehow I don’t feel like I’ve come all that far. Yet, I know the only way I can make progress is by taking small steps. Two more chapters done from the Lutz book. Boy, is he thorough! Will be reading about String Fundamentals today. Also, ran across this inspirational post yesterday. This along with Kushal’s (always generous) advice1 that I should start tinkering with stuff, makes me wonder if I should also do the #100DaysOfCode challenge, with Python. After all, it seems to have done the trick for my writing. I no longer have writers block :) ...
 Alright, speed reading Lutz is a little bit of an over statement :P But four chapters done and working towards finishing it. Love the comprehensive treatment of Python. Would love to see an update to the book, since Mark’s such a wonderful teacher, but that doesn’t seem likely. Mark does religiously update here though. This will always serve as an excellent foundational resource. Would have loved to learn from Mark in person. The book is a close second!
Got back on the Python horse. Using the PYM book to learn along, in the DGPLUG Summer Training. Installed MU. Hanging on for dear life and trying to follow along.
I finally got tired of rebuilding my servers from scratch everytime. It hadn’t troubled me enough to do something about it, until recently. I got myself a pc to do linux development on and I keep nuking the os and reinstalling. Rebuilding it over and over was exciting in the beginning and then it sudddenly began to grate on my nerves. So I decided to put in my twenty hours after my break and learn Ansible. ...