Programming

Does not feel like I did anything today. But I know my plodding will pay off.

More learning. Did about an hour today. Tried figuring out how to read in a csv manually. (and then, he thanks God for libraries) Will keep chugging away at this.

While the storm passed us by, it bought upon us a day of no power. So I just deciced to make the most of it and read a book, I’ve wanted to, for quite a while. Finished Jon Stokes’, “Inside the Machine”. This book is like a 5000 feet, overview on how the CPU inside a computer works. If you’re curious like me, and don’t want to delve into the nitty-gritties of Computer Science, this is just the book for you. Starting with a fictional CPU and then racing through the Intel/AMD (x86, IA-64, x86-64) and AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorala - PowerPC) line of CPUs, this is a wonderful exposition of how the brains in your computer work. (spoiler, they are really dumb and plenty fast!) ...

Nothing much done today. But I am learning to pace myself and say stop :) Learnt some, about finding the absolute path of a file. Anyhoo, nothing much I can do. A gigantic, storm’s a-comin’! Time to batten down the hatches.

Ok, back from hiatus, much earlier than expected :) Need to take care not to burn myself out now. I need to do this slowly. Done with a tiny program, Kushal asked me to write. If you download a log from the DGPLUG log archive and then run the program and give it the filename, it’ll spit out a list of how many nicks, spoke how many words. The code is here, Gitlab and Github ...

I fell sick, and now I seem to have personal issues because of quarantine. So a bit of hiatus. But I’m not abandoning it this time. Will add all the days I missed and keep going, once I am back. Which I really hope, is soon.