Work

Been really sick to do anything this past month. Slowly inching towards getting better. So thought it would be a good idea to get my brain working, even if slowly. Safari on my Mac has finally turned into a burning pile of shit. No extensions allowed. I hate this neglect of an awesome platform. And I hate that they are making it into something that nobody wants, except for some fat cat in an ivory tower. So where was I? Oh yea, no extensions. Which means no uBlock Origin. Which basically means Safari for all its speed and efficiency is now as unusable as a dog turd. ...

Something I learnt recently as I moved hosts for my Miniflux instance. I can just take all the variables I want (like feed refresh times, the base url or the address/port Miniflux listens on); and then stuff it into a config file and then launch miniflux like so … miniflux -c 'path/to/file' Pretty handy! P.S. The entire list of variables is here.

Did I need to read a fifteen hundred page book to learn Python? At the end of fourteen hundred pages, I can safely assure you, I did not. If you want to just solve your pressing issues or scratch your itch, or just plain get started with programming (and programming in Python specifically), I’d recommend starting with a simple, fast paced book, like Python for you and me, and then doing tons of practice.1 ...

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. ...