December 2021
Books read in 2021
The current year was a year of changes and experiments with my reading habits 📚. I read two books in parallel for the first time and listened to an entirely new book in audio format.
Eating before the TV. Need to use the time without a child at home :-)
New books to read for next year 😍📚.
Holiday baking project from my daughter. Tasty :-)
I love my Christmas present from my wife! Such a cute little guy :-) Happy Christmas, everyone. 🎄
Ready for the launch. Watching https://youtu.be/7nT7JGZMbtM
@V_ My daughter now wants to work at NASA when shes big. Goal achived: Rocket is in space. And my daugther is still interested in rockets.
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I just started reading Cytonic: The Third Skyward Novel by Brandon Sanderson.📚
I just watched my sisters keeper the movie is quite slow and quiet. But I like the storytelling very much. Not a simple topic and certainly not a light movie.
The engineering behind this telescope is amazing. I hope all goes well when they deploy it.
Book notes for Several Short Sentences About Writing
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg.📚 is a book about writing. I felt very nervous when reading it—fearing if I would understand it.
Why do I always need to fear that my project stop working when I upgrade Xcode :-(
A good resource with a lot of tips to better understand what you need to deal with when you work your way into a legacy code base. And another book for the TBR list :-D
This book analyses how your brain works and gives concrete advice to help you work with Legacy Code. Here's my summary of its salient points.
Book notes for Four Thousand Weeks
I’ve heard about Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. by Oliver Burkeman everywhere. So I now decided to listen to it. I’ve experimented with listening to a new book directly as an audiobook. Notes When I first heard the concept of the book, I felt defeated. Four thousand weeks sounds like such a small number. But I think it is still an important concept and helps put things into perspective.
Stick figure doodle from today.
I just started reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg.📚
@V_ ok, actually, I have not started reading it now. I just forgot to log the start for this book and wanted to have it in my book list.
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Book notes for Just Fucking Ship by Amy Hoy
Just Fucking Ship by Amy Hoy. Beat your perfectionist and start shipping all your projects. Understand why you are not able to finish projects and repeat the cycle of failing over and over again. Notes I like this book very much, but I struggle with executing its principles. I always want to do my projects too big. Or want to add another feature to it. And in turn, they are never finished or released.
Making progress!
Review of Terms May Apply
I just finished reading Terms May Apply by Keith A Pearson.📚
What price would you pay to have a wish fulfilled? Our main character Kyle needs to find the answer to this question.
mjdescy writes:
I’m a crypto skeptic who thinks a lot about blockchain for work-related reasons. I dislike blockchain technologies because I think that, in the real world, they would fail to eliminate trusted intermediaries in financial transactions. Establishing trust without intermediaries is the whole point of blockchain.
For me, crypto is interesting from a technology aspect, having a distributed system that can be validated without having a single source of truth. But now we have the problem that the space is so hyped and full of people hoping they get rich quickly that it is tough to see the actual value it could have.
On the other hand, the argument from mjdescy in the second paragraph that when we could have a system without intermediaries, we would just get new ones also has a point. I think here it is just that such a world is so utterly different from what we “know” now how business should work that it just sounds like science fiction. It reminds me of the world in Cory Doctorow’s novel Walkaway.
Sitting on the forest floor. Enjoying the space around me. Letting my muscles relax. Listening to the sounds of distant animals
Closing my eyes. Enjoying the quiet. The calming atmosphere of a forest after a rainstorm. Washed clean.
Wrote an automation script to save me around 15 minute of manual labor per week – it took nearly two whole days.
Not sure why it always is so much work to automate something. The script is not complicated and not so big :-(
A name tag has fallen on a random magazine cover. Somehow the result speaks to me.
Woke up to this headline today—an excellent start to my holiday.
Regierungsrat schliesst Aargauer Volksschule schon nächsten Freitag - nach den Ferien Maskenpflicht auch für 1.-Klässler
⤑ Corona: Im Aargau beginnen die Weihnachtsferien eine Woche früher.
I just used the text extraction feature of iOS15 for the first time. Wow, such a handy feature.
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@V_ I have one of those guys too! Mine is orange, and was a birthday present a few years back. I love it!
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@Alligator They are so cute :-D
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