July 2020
I just started reading Slated: Book 1 (Slated Trilogy) by Teri Terry.📚
The linked article is quite helpful. Especially the section about meetings is intriguing. Having a meeting with no set goal initially and all information present is never a good idea. It only leads to a follow-up meeting in the future.
The person who called the meeting is responsible for contextualizing the outcomes and porting relevant snippets to relevant GitLab issues and/or merge requests.
By placing this burden on the meeting organizer, it acts as a filter for whether or not a meeting is truly necessary.
I like this idea, whoever wants to have a meeting is also required actually to make sure the documentation afterward is present. And having a meeting where the outcome is not written down is too bad as nobody remembers its results.
A common frustration in large organizations — regardless of what stage of remote they’re in — is the chaotic splintering of communication. Projects frequently end up strewn across email, chat, text messages, unrecorded meetings, design tools, Google Docs, etc. While there are a litany of unified communication tools available which attempt to wrangle all of that, you’re best served by choosing a single system for communicating project progress.
Yep, all documentation needs to be at a single point. Otherwise, chaos ensues.
I listened to the Flash Forward Episode the Very Big Sick today. About a hypothetical pandemic and how we would need to react to it. The episode is from 2018, and it is interesting how we now have the situation in real which they were speculating over.
On Note Taking
I’ve had a look at Obsidian this week, and I like it – but like with every other note-taking app, I’m missing the spatial and graphical part. It allows me to link my notes and display them as a graph. But what I want and need is a hybrid to between a text editor and a vector drawing program. My primary tool right now for note-taking is Omni Graffle. It allows me to place text blocks anywhere on an infinite plane.
Stocked up on my favorite tee: Lipton Forest Fruit.
I just started reading The Girl Cloaked in Shadow (The Chronicles of Maggie Trent Book 3) by Megan O’Russell.📚
I hate the days when you’re head is feeling cloudy and you’re unable to focus on anything :-(
I just started reading The Girl Locked With Gold (The Chronicles of Maggie Trent Book 2) by Megan O’Russell.📚
Sunday afternoon snack — Zucchini chips
Cooling down in the river
Review of Seven Things Not to Do When Everyone's Trying to Kill You (The Tale of Bryant Adams Book 2)
I just finished reading Seven Things Not to Do When Everyone’s Trying to Kill You (The Tale of Bryant Adams Book 2) by Megan O’Russell.📚 Bryant and his friends nearly survived the fight against the Ladies in the first issue, and he is now a wizard apprentice. And now the adventure continues. “There will be no room for argument. No time to second-guess my decisions. We’re waltzing into the best security system known to magickind.
The way to the goal
Long hair — drawing of a stick figure with long hair.
Review of Promises To Keep: After the EMP (Disruption Trilogy Book 3)
I just finished reading Promises To Keep: After the EMP (Disruption Trilogy Book 3) by R.E. McDermott.📚 The last part of an excellent series so far and this issue also contains some surprises. I like that the author does not make the story longer. He certainly could. I certainly recommend this series when you want to read end of world scenarios. It contains some massive battles, but we don’t get pages upon pages with strategy guides like other books.I just started reading The Girl Without Magic (The Chronicles of Maggie Trent Book 1) by Megan O’Russell.📚
Today was a strange day. I spend ten hours looking at how to fix a bug in an Apple framework. Three other unlucky developers and I are the only ones seeing it – and no fix so far :-(
URLSessionConfiguration.timeoutForRequest is ignored when it is set to a value greater than 60.
@V_ The stack overflow discussion for context: stackoverflow.com/questions...
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Review of Knife of Dreams, The Wheel of Time, Book 11
Review of Knife of Dreams, The Wheel of Time, Book 11 audiobook 📚. In this book, the story continues to follow Matt on his travel out of Ebou Dar and how he starts to earn his respect from Tuon. He also asks Tom about the letter he is continually looking at, marking the start of a new plotline. Perrin releases his wife, and with this finishes, the slog. Rand tries to meet with the daughter of the nine moons, which does not go as planned.Review of Push Back: After the EMP (Disruption Trilogy Book 2)
I just finished reading Push Back: After the EMP (Disruption Trilogy Book 2) by R.E. McDermott.📚 We follow the same characters as from the first issue in the time directly after the EMP hit. Everybody gets desperate. At the same time, part of the cast tries to reunite their families. The other half tries to collect the power or try to keep any power they gained in the first issue.We are back from our short trip to Lucerne. I’m tired but happy. It is a long time since I was so active like in these last three days.
Colorful Humans - drawn by my daughter
Pilatus from the boat
A collection of pictures of the excursion to Mount Pilatus from yesterday.
Summer at the lake.
Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel (The Murderbot Diaries Book 5)
I just finished reading Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel (The Murderbot Diaries Book 5) by Martha Wells.📚 Murderbot accompanies a survey team to another planet, and on the earlier than planned return, the starship gets kidnapped by unknown aliens. Can Murderbot safe itself and it’s humans? I still like the character of Murderbot in this installment of the series. Next to the main storyline, the author also expands the character and interaction in the universe quite a bit.
The color pencils got installed now. Not the same impact any more, but I still like it.
I just started reading Promises To Keep: After the EMP (Disruption Trilogy Book 3) by R.E. McDermott.📚
Recognizing privilege doesn’t mean suffering guilt or shame for your lot in life. Nobody’s saying that straight, white, middle-class, able-bodied males are all a bunch of assholes who don’t work hard for what they have. Recognizing privilege simply means being aware that some people have to work much harder just to experience the things you take for granted (if they ever can experience them at all).
⤑ Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person (via kottke.org)
@V_ a very good podcast.
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@docuguy yep and I only have around 15 episodes left until I’m catched up.
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@V_ Rose is amazing. There is really nobody else doing that kind of storytelling in podcasting.
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