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I’ve been moaning and bitching the past couple of years about how smart I was in my teens and how I could learn any darn thing I set my mind to, then. My school grades did not reflect it though. And these days, my consulting solutions have been top notch, and yet, I struggle to sharpen the saw. What gives? It struck me today, as I finished watching some Python videos along my struggling Python journey, that I was understanding the concepts much better than I had in the past few months. ...

Linode mailed me complaining that average CPU usage was 90% over the past couple of hours! Culprit turned out to be the headless dropbox client I’d installed the day before. Lessson learnt. Switched to periodic rysnc via a cron job. Nothing else done today. Still sick as a dog. Watched a couple of Python tutorials

Learnt a new trick to drive home my Vim skills. I use the Anki Deck, and before I answer, I actually try the question out on a document to see if I got it right. Seems to be building muscle memory much faster than I could by just practicing or by just memorising. I love the immediate feedback loop! Should try this out with my math rote exercises too. Charted out a plan for the Lutz book. 2 Chapters or a 100 pages a day, whichever is less. This should let me finish the book in 20 days. Trying to figure out a way to structurally practice tiny problems too. That #100daysofcode research is still pending. Will hopefully do it tomorrow. Have a full day at work today.

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!”

Slow day. Didn’t do anything. Only finished one chapter from Lutz.