What I Learned Today (11th of February, 2023)

Rest day! Not doing much!

Emacs

• It works! Yesterday’s little hack, to clock in and out when I change state works well! It doesn’t seem to have broken anything.

• Also I added a WORKING state, and tagged my function to that. The clock in and out happen when I switch in an out of the WORKING state. Because I want my parent task to show IN_PROGRESS and the current subtask to be what I am working on. Like so …

** IN_PROGRESS Emacs
*** WORKING Learn about Org
*** TODO Write about what you learnt

• Here’s an image of an actual task …

• Except for one more thing.¹
  When I switch another task to WORKING, it does clock me out of the old task, but it leaves the TODO state at WORKING. I want the old task to switch to WAITING. I’ll look at doing this as soon as I get some breathing time.

Devops

• Spoke to a friend about some how and what and why for close to an hour
  Helped me clear my mind lots!

Urdu

• Did “toey” and “zoey”

• Did I mention three letters for the same S sound yesterday?
  Ha! Z has four! Zaal, Ze, Zuaad & Zoey

• Also tutor’s note:

the word “zan” (ज़न) when written with ‘zoey’ means “presumption” whereas, the same word, when written with a ‘ze’ instead, means “woman”.

• Which means? Lots of practice and reading ahead :)
  Also coming from the madness that is English, I keep telling myself, this is not so bad 😂
  Like Lizzo doing crack.

Physical Fitness

Rest day!

Thoughts

• The meta need / theme of learning and working, as I am doing now, is that I need to work to a time budget
  • Here’s the problem, try and solve it in an hour (or whatever time I budget)
• I need to have no shame if I cannot get it done
• I need to ask for help / look up solutions faster
• I also need to budget the time to understand the solutions.
  • If I cannot fix it one day and the solution is taking time to “get”, be ok with spending time the next day
• It’s just me. There is no one else. There is no need to pressure myself more than necessary.
• Work to the spec. Generalising (at least for now) is taboo. Now, I understand what my friends tell me about me perfectionism. I keep spending way too long about what if this? and what if that? I need to get something working first. Refine / expand / refactor it later
• Get better at logging times
• Get better at taking breaks between tasks
• Writing these logs has helped gain insight and understanding. I need to keep at it. It’ll help with the “what now? what next?” questions